EP 346 Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Got Worse and What to Do About It
Jim talked with Cory Doctorow—prolific sci-fi and nonfiction author, journalist, activist, EFF special adviser, and author of Enshittificati...
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EP 345 Worldviews: Tyson Yunkaporta on Ceremony, Skepticism, and Seeing in 3D
Jim talks with Tyson Yunkaporta—indigenous Australian scholar and author of Sand Talk, one of Jim's top ten favorite books—about his metaphy...
EP 344 Lisa Buckingham on Hiring for the AI Era
Jim talks with Lisa Buckingham—a veteran HR leader at Vialto Partners, US Soccer, Lincoln Financial, and Thomson—about how the LLM era is re...
EP 343 Worldviews: Peter Wang on the Metaphysics of Quality, Sucker’s Bets, and Ofness
Jim talks with Peter Wang—chief AI officer, cofounder and CEO of Anaconda, board member of the Center for Humane Technology, and founder of...
EP 342 Worldviews: Jordan Hall on Reality as Relationship and Why the Dead Are Still With Us
Jim talks with recurring guest and deep systems thinker Jordan Hall about the scaffolding of his worldview. They discuss the waking-up scena...
EP 341 Worldviews: Bonnitta Roy on Post-Formal Actors, Stage Theory, and the Character Void in Leadership
Jim talks with Bonnitta Roy, interdisciplinary thinker and founder of the Pop-Up School and the Divinity School, about her worldview, the de...
EP 340 Worldviews: Liv Boeree on Poker, Moloch, and the Art of Finding Win-Wins
Jim talks with Liv Boeree—science communicator, former professional poker player, and host of the Win-Win Podcast—about consciousness, egreg...
EP 339 John Krakauer on Why Neuroscience Needs Behavior
Jim talks with John Krakauer—professor of neurology and neuroscience, director of the Center for Study of Motor Learning and Brain Repair at...
EP 338 Jeff Giesea on Dionysian Futurism, Reading Great Books in the AI Era, and Rebalancing Generational Power
Jim talks with Jeff Giesea, entrepreneur, writer, and founder of the Boyd Institute, about his essay "Dionysian Futurism" and the broader qu...
EP 337 Worldviews: Philip Rosedale on Emergent Worlds, Localism, and What Building Second Life Taught Him About Humanity
Jim talks with Philip Rosedale, founder and CEO of Linden Lab and creator of the game Second Life, about the nature of self, society, and th...
EP 336 Rufus Pollock on the Wisdom Gap and the Second Renaissance
Jim talks with Rufus Pollock—entrepreneur, activist, Zen practitioner, founder of Life Itself and the Open Knowledge Foundation, and author...
EP 335 Worldviews: Samantha Sweetwater
Jim talks with Samantha Sweetwater about her book True Human: Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World and the question of what it mean...
EP 334 Worldviews: Joscha Bach
Jim talks with cognitive scientist and AI researcher Joscha Bach about the computational and representational foundations of consciousness,...
EP 333 Worldviews: Iain McGilchrist
In this Worldviews episode, Jim talks with Iain McGilchrist about consciousness, matter, and the nature of reality. They discuss consciousne...
EP 332 Worldviews: Jim Rutt
In a special edition of the new Worldviews series, Brendan Graham Dempsey asks Jim about his life and worldview using a faith development in...
EP 331 Worldviews: Michael Shermer
Jim talks with Michael Shermer about his worldview and his new book, Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters. They discu...
EP 330 Worldviews: Ben Goertzel
Jim talks with Ben Goertzel about his worldview. They discuss Ben's morning experience of consciousness crystallizing from ambient awareness...
EP 329 Worldviews: David Krakauer
In the inaugural episode of a new series, Jim talks with David Krakauer about his intellectual formation and worldview. They discuss what wo...
EP 328 Brendan Graham Dempsey Interviews Jim Rutt on Minimum Viable Metaphysics
In this flipped episode, Brendan Graham Dempsey interviews Jim about the ideas in his recent Substack essays "A Minimum Viable Metaphysics"...
EP 327 Nate Soares on Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Jim talks with Nate Soares about the ideas in his and Eliezer Yudkowsky's book If Anybody Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would...