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Episode 27: Eugenics, with Brandon Ogbunu
Episode 28
This week, Adam talks with biologist Brandon Ogbunu about the horrifying history of genetics, what it means for working geneticists and evolutionary …
1 day, 13 hours ago
Episode 26: Space Ain't the Place (solo episode)
Episode 27
This week it's just Adam! Following up on the space colonization episode from a few weeks back, Adam talks about exactly how horrifying and difficult…
1 week, 1 day ago
Episode 25: Transhumanism and Faith, with Meghan O'Gieblyn
Episode 26
This week, Adam talks with author and essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn. They discuss her remarkable book, God Human Animal Machine, which is one of Adam's f…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Episode 24: The Myth of AI Doom, with Cal Newport
Episode 25
This week, Adam talks with computer scientist and author Cal Newport about the resurgent claims of AI doom in the news, where these ideas come from, …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Episode 23: Language Models, with Emily M. Bender
Episode 24
This week, Adam talks with linguist and AI critic Emily M. Bender. They talk about large language models, Emily's origin story, and the importance of…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Episode 22: Balancing on the Abyss, with Dave Karpf
Episode 23
This week, Adam and returning guest Dave Karpf talk about what it's like to gaze into the abyss of politics and tech as part of their jobs, and how t…
1 month ago
Sharing a new series from Future Hindsight, Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising.
Episode 22
Occupy Wall Street is the story of the improbable becoming possible. In 2008, millions of people were devastated by an economic crash caused by Wall …
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 21: The AI Bubble, with Matt Scherer
Episode 21
This week, Adam talks with Matt Scherer about the AI bubble: what it is, why it's a bubble, what might happen when it pops, and what we can all do to…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 20: Resisting AI Data Centers, with Alli Finn and Matt Rodriguez
Episode 20
This week is a little bit different. Adam talks with Alli Finn and Matt Rodriguez about a very specific kind of better future: one with way fewer AI …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 19: Space Colonization, with Lucian Walkowicz and Erika Nesvold
Episode 19
It's a triple astrophysicist episode! This week, Adam talks with Lucian Walkowicz and Erika Nesvold about why space colonization is a terrible idea, …
1 month, 3 weeks ago