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EP 228 Jeremy Sherman on the Emergence and Nature of Selves
Season 1 Episode 228
Jim talks with Jeremy Sherman about the ideas in his book Neither Ghost nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves. They discuss how Jim found J…
2 years ago
EP 227 Stuart Kauffman on the Emergence of Life
Season 1 Episode 227
Jim talks with Stuart Kauffman about the ideas in the recent paper he co-authored with Andrea Roli, "Is the Emergence of Life an Expected Phase Trans…
2 years, 1 month ago
EP 226 Hannah Rosenberg on An Answer to Red Pilldom
Season 1 Episode 226
Jim talks with Hannah Rosenberg about the ideas in her essay "An Answer to Red Pilldom." They discuss the meaning & origins of red pilldom, how Hanna…
2 years, 1 month ago
EP 225 Bruce Damer on a New Path for Psychedelics
Season 1 Episode 225
Jim talks with Bruce Damer about the new Center for MINDS and the ideas in his essay "Downloads from the Modern Dawn of Psychedelics." They discuss a…
2 years, 1 month ago
EP 224 Samo Burja on Geothermal Energy
Season 1 Episode 224
Jim talks with Samo Burja about the ideas in his recent article "Geothermal Energy Turns Planets Into Power Sources." They discuss the heat beneath t…
2 years, 1 month ago
EP 223 Jordan Hall on Cities, Civiums, and Becoming Christian
Season 1 Episode 223
Jim talks with Jordan Hall about the ideas in his essay "From City to Civium" and about his recent conversion to Christianity. They discuss scaling l…
2 years, 1 month ago
EP 222 Trent McConaghy on AI & Brain-Computer Interface Accelerationism (bci/acc)
Season 1 Episode 222
Jim talks with Trent McConaghy about the ideas in his recent essay "bci/acc: A Pragmatic Path to Compete with Artificial Superintelligence." They dis…
2 years, 1 month ago
EP 221 George Hotz on Open-Source Driving Assistance
Season 1 Episode 221
Jim talks with George Hotz about running Comma, an open-source driving assistance company. They discuss breaking the carrier lock on the iPhone at se…
2 years, 1 month ago
EP 220 Lene Rachel Andersen on Polymodernity
Season 1 Episode 220
Jim talks with Lene Rachel Andersen about the ideas in her book Polymodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World. They discuss the meaning of polym…
2 years, 2 months ago
EP 219 Katherine Gehl on Breaking Partisan Gridlock
Season 1 Episode 219
Jim talks with Katherine Gehl about her and Michael Porter's book, The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Sa…
2 years, 2 months ago