I chat to regular guest Mick Waters about how we try to stay grounded in a noisy world. Slow pace on this one.

Three men converse their way through humanity’s most unanswerable questions with the misplaced confidence of people who read half a philosophy book once.

Dan Choi, a grid connection manager who compulsively detonates intellectual hand grenades, Mick Waters, an overcaffeinated project manager with a story for every occasion, and me, the intermittently coherent third wheel, stagger through conversations about moral realism, Katy Perry’s inevitable conquest of outer space, the civilizing power of women’s disdain, control theory, cult leadership ambitions, and the petty tragedies that make up existence.

It’s a sloppy collision of half-remembered history lessons, basement-bar philosophizing, and the grim realization that none of us will ever be as interesting as we think we are. If you’ve ever wanted to hear three chronically verbose man-children wrestle with meaning in between sips of cheap alcohol, congratulations: you’ve arrived.

It’s part philosophy salon, part therapy session, part late-night pub rant—held together by the thin hope that somewhere in the chaos, we might find a speck of insight.

Richard speaks with Data Engineer Edward Crupi about the current state of artificial intelligence - what it can do for us, where it might lead in the next few years, the dangers it might pose and should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the future.