Episodes

  • Ep. 158: abstraction and agency | John Wentworth

    Ep. 158: abstraction and agency | John Wentworth
    May 7 2024
    After a long career as a software engineer and data scientist, John became an independent researcher in artificial intelligence. Today he focuses on a diverse array of topics, such as the nature of abstraction and what the word "agency" even means. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr
  • Ep. 157: Aristotle, AI, and what philosophy offers futurism | Gregory Salmieri

    Ep. 157: Aristotle, AI, and what philosophy offers futurism | Gregory Salmieri
    Apr 23 2024
    Dr. Gregory Salmieri is a senior scholar of philosophy at the Salem Center, where he holds the Brigham Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism. He is the co-editor of the books "A Companion to Ayn Rand" and "Foundations of a Free Society" and the author of numerous articles on philosophy, with a particular focus on Aristotle and Ayn Rand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Ep. 156: Algorithms won't get us to AGI | Johannes Jaeger

    Ep. 156: Algorithms won't get us to AGI | Johannes Jaeger
    Apr 9 2024
    Dr. Johannes Jaeger is a systems scientist, evolutionary biologist, educator, and natural philosopher with an extremely transdisciplinary track record. His investigations, first as the head of an empirical lab, later as the director of an institute for the philosophy of biology, and then as a freelance investigator, have always focused on organisms as complex adaptive systems. He is currently leading a research project at the Dept of Philosophy of the University of Vienna called “Pushing the Boundaries,” which concerns the differences between machines and organisms, and the importance of this difference for evolution. He is associate faculty at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna, and a scholar at the Ronin Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Ep. 155: The history of invention | Anton Howes

    Ep. 155: The history of invention | Anton Howes
    Mar 26 2024
    Dr. Anton Howes is a historian of invention. He is currently writing a book on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution, and is official historian for the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, as well as head of innovation research for The Entrepreneurs Network. He is a visiting fellow at King's College London, where he was previously lecturer in Economic History. He regularly shares his research on the history of invention at his online newsletter Age of Invention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    51 mins
  • Ep. 154: How the government works (and why you should care). | Daniel Golliher

    Ep. 154: How the government works (and why you should care). | Daniel Golliher
    Mar 12 2024
    After graduating with a degree in government from Harvard, Daniel Golliher founded a civics school called Maximum New York, anchored in New York City. The school’s goal is to accelerate kind, smart, ambitious people into city and state politics; provide them with an atypical level of knowledge about how government works; and keep them networked together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Ep. 153: AI, Alignment, and the Scaling Hypothesis | Dwarkesh Patel

    Ep. 153: AI, Alignment, and the Scaling Hypothesis | Dwarkesh Patel
    Feb 27 2024
    Dwarkesh Patel is a renowned podcaster who has hosted interviews with luminaries like Marc Andreesen, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Grant Sanderson. He's best known for the extraordinary effort he puts into researching the topics he speaks with his guests about, and for covering an exceptionally wide intellectual ground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • Ep. 152: Building the future at venture studios | Taylor Black

    Ep. 152: Building the future at venture studios | Taylor Black
    Feb 13 2024
    Taylor Black is a cross-functional team leader and seasoned entrepreneur passionate about driving innovation and growth. As a co-founder of Fizzy Ventures and a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Incubation Studio, Taylor has been at the forefront of entrepreneurial ecosystems, venture studios, and technology and business model innovation. Thanks to this remarkable background, Taylor's expertise is sought after by founders, corporate innovators, venture accelerators, incubators, and studios alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • Ep. 151: Opening the final frontier--for everyone | Emery Gunselman

    Ep. 151: Opening the final frontier--for everyone | Emery Gunselman
    Jan 30 2024
    Emery Gunselman is a former astrodynamics engineer and is currently a Satellite Operations Product Owner at Morpheus Space. Morpheus Space is disrupting the NewSpace industry by introducing Agile Constellations, a fusion between cutting-edge electric propulsion and Artificial Intelligence, which enables satellite service providers to operate entire constellations as one entity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    45 mins