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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…
10 months, 2 weeks 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 th…
10 months, 2 weeks 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 d…
11 months, 2 weeks 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…
1 year 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-base…
1 year 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'…
1 year 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 inc…
1 year 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 circ…
1 year ago
EP 290 Mark Stahlman on Trump as the Avatar of the Digital Paradigm Shift
Season 1 Episode 290
Jim talks with Mark Stahlman about Trump as an avatar of the current digital transformation. They discuss the GameB movement & complexity theory, pre…
1 year ago
EP 289 Adam B. Levine on AI-Powered Programming for Non-Developers
Season 1 Episode 289
Jim talks with Adam B. Levine about AI programming aids for non-techies and the future of Bitcoin. They discuss Adam's background as a "technical non…
1 year ago