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EP 300 Daniel Rodriguez on AI-Assisted Software Development
Season 1 Episode 300
Jim talks with Daniel Rodriguez about the state of AI software development and its implementation in industry. They discuss Daniel's background at Microsoft & Anaconda, transformer-based technologies…
Published on 3 months ago
EP 299 Ryan Blosser on Permaculture for Food and Friendship
Season 1 Episode 299
Jim talks with Ryan Blosser about the ideas in his book Mulberries in the Rain: Growing Permaculture Plants for Food and Friendship, co-authored with Trevor Piersol. They discuss the motivation behin…
Published on 3 months ago
EP 298 Adam Lake on Rebooting American Democracy
Season 1 Episode 298
Jim talks with Adam Lake about Reboot America, a project aimed at reforming American democracy. They discuss existential threats facing humanity, the two-party corporate duopoly, a Princeton study on…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
EP 297 Sara Walker on the Physics of Life's Emergence
Season 1 Episode 297
Jim talks with Sara Walker about the ideas in her new book Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence. They discuss Sara's path from theoretical physics to astrobiology, the biggest sci…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
EP 296 Ashley Hodgson on Economic Mythology and System Change
Season 1 Episode 296
Jim talks with Ashley Hodgson about her YouTube series "The New Enlightenment" and its heterodox perspectives on economics and social systems. They discuss Iain McGilchrist's influence & his book "Th…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
EP 295 John Robb on How a Networked Organization Blitzed D.C.
Season 1 Episode 295
Jim talks with John Robb about the ideas in his recent essay "Blitzing DC," about how a networked organization took over Washington. They discuss the early roots of network warfare in Iraq, McLuhan-e…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
EP 294 Timothy Clancy on an AI Cold War
Season 1 Episode 294
Jim talks with Timothy Clancy about wicked mess problems & the potential for a new Cold War centered on AI. They discuss the evolution from chat-based to reasoning AI, military applications, social &…
Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago
EP 293 Brendan Graham Dempsey on Cosmic Teleology and Emergence Vectors
Season 1 Episode 293
Jim talks with Brendan Graham Dempsey, picking up on a disagreement they had on Facebook about the teleology of the universe. They discuss Aristotle's influence on the topic, Terrence Deacon's work o…
Published on 5 months ago
EP 292 Emil Eijner Friis on Building a Listening Society
Season 1 Episode 292
Jim talks with Emil Ejner Friis about political metamodernism and what comes after postmodernism. They discuss the "woke vacuum" & its failure to include common folks, psychosocial problems vs materi…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
EP 291 Jeff Sebo on Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
Season 1 Episode 291
Jim talks with Jeff Sebo about the ideas in his book The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why. They discuss the concept of the moral circle, harming cats vs harming cars, the case study o…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago