Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: How Artificial Superintelligence Might Wipe Out Our Entire Species with Nate Soares
Technological development has always been a double-edged sword for humanity: the printing press increased the spread of misinformation, cars disrupte…
4 months, 1 week ago
Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spirituality in the Metacrisis with Samantha Sweetwater
Over the past decade, the world has become increasingly chaotic and uncertain – and so, too, has our cultural vision for the future. While the events…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114
Over the past decade, the world has become increasingly chaotic and uncertain – and so, too, has our cultural vision for the future. While the events…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114
In this week's episode, Nate invites listeners into an exploration of what it means to navigate a growing predicament shaped by ecological limits, ra…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Two Ways of Knowing: How Merging Science & Indigenous Wisdom Fuels New Discoveries with Rosa Vásquez Espinoza
For centuries, modern science has relied on the scientific method to better understand the world around us. While helpful in many contexts, the scien…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview | Frankly 113
In this episode, Nate weaves personal reflections into an exploration of the human predicament, unpacking a series of chronological insights that hav…
5 months ago
Will We Artificially Cool the Planet? The Science and Politics of Geoengineering with Ted Parson
Global heating continues, despite the increased use of renewable energy sources and international policies attempting otherwise. Even as emissions re…
5 months ago
Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy and other Personal Dangers of AI | RR 20
Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence tend to center around the technology's economic and large-scale impacts. Yet it's at the indiv…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Quadruple Bifurcation | Frankly 112
In this week's Frankly, Nate outlines four bifurcations that are likely to underpin the human experience in the near future. While the broad biophysi…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Terror Management Theory: How Existential Dread Has Shaped the World with Sheldon Solomon
Many of us wrestle with the unsettling truth that everyone – including ourselves and those we love – will one day die. Though this awareness is uncom…
5 months, 2 weeks ago