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EP 320 David Shapiro on Mastering AI Tools for Research
Season 1 Episode 320
Jim talks with David Shapiro about how to use AI language models as research and writing tools. They discuss post-labor economics, the evolution of AI tools from GPT-2 through GPT-4, using AI as a le…
Published on 11 hours ago
EP 319 Lawrence Cahoone on Emergence and Natural Order
Season 1 Episode 319
Jim talks with Lawrence Cahoone about his book The Orders of Nature and his systematic approach to naturalist philosophy. They discuss fallibilist & local metaphysics, objective relativism, the rejec…
Published on 5 days, 14 hours ago
EP 318 Adam B. Levine on Thinking on Demand
Season 1 Episode 318
Jim talks with Adam B. Levine about humanity's rapidly changing relationship with AI and "thinking on demand." They discuss the GPT-5 release & pricing, open-source AI models, the three-dimensional f…
Published on 1 week, 5 days ago
EP 317 David Shapiro on Post-Labor Economics
Season 1 Episode 317
Jim talks with David Shapiro about his six-part series on "post-labor economics." They discuss historical economic transitions, the logic of labor substitution, automation & AI's impacts on employme…
Published on 2 weeks ago
EP 316 Ken Stanley on the AI Representation Problem
Season 1 Episode 316
Jim talks with Ken Stanley about the Fractured Entanglement Representation hypothesis in deep learning neural networks. They discuss open-endedness in AI systems & evolution, the Picbreeder experimen…
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago
EP 315 Ed Latimore on Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business
Season 1 Episode 315
Jim talks with Ed Latimore about his new book Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business: Boxing and the Art of Life. They discuss Ed's chess playing & street hustling, size differences in modern heavyweigh…
Published on 3 weeks ago
EP 314 Zak Stein and Marc Gafni on the Nature of Everything
Season 1 Episode 314
Jim talks with Zak Stein and Marc Gafni about consciousness, attention, and value as fundamental aspects of reality. They explore continuity & discontinuity in evolution, phenomenology & naturalism, …
Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago
EP 313 Chris Colin on Why Customer Service Sucks
Season 1 Episode 313
Jim talks with Chris Colin about his recent Atlantic article "That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose." They discuss customer service hell & Chris's personal story with Ford, the c…
Published on 1 month ago
EP 312 Lee Cronin on Automating Chemistry
Season 1 Episode 312
Jim talks with Lee Cronin about Chemify, his startup that aims to automate chemistry through "chemifarms" that turn code into molecules. They discuss Chemify as an AWS for chemistry, the development …
Published on 1 month ago
EP 311 Nicholas Humphrey on the Invention of Consciousness
Season 1 Episode 311
Jim talks with Nicholas Humphrey about the ideas in his 2023 book Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness. They discuss the distinction between sentience & consciousness, access consciousness vs ph…
Published on 1 month ago