FUTURATI PODCAST
by Thomas Frey
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Episode 172: Capitalism Evolving—or Collapsing | Any Hines
Episode 172: Capitalism Evolving—or Collapsing | Any Hines
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Join renowned visionary Thomas Frey and Trent Fowler as they explore artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, space exploration, quantum computing, biotechnology, and a variety of other topics of interest to futurists.
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- Episode 172: Capitalism Evolving—or Collapsing | Any Hines · 53 minHow will capitalism evolve—or collapse—in the coming decades? Futurist, academic, and author Andy Hines joins us to discuss his latest book, "Imagining After Capitalism", the…
- Ep. 171: China, Communism, and Bitcoin | Roger Huang · 1 h 13 min · Episode 171Roger Huang "Would Mao Hold Bitcoin?" is the authoritative resource exploring Bitcoin’s disruptive intersection with Chinese history. Huang not only pulls back the curtain on the…
- Ep. 170: The story of the first AGI | David Jilk · 45 min · Episode 170David Jilk joins us for round two! After finishing MIT, David founded eCortex, a company that wound up being a solid 20 years ahead of the curve on deep learning, and later…
- Ep. 169: Fractal University, Scenius, and the future of higher ed. | Andrew Rose · 1 h 7 min · Episode 169Andrew Rose is one of the founders of Fractal University, whose mission is to democratize enjoyable, lifelong education and public research culture by creating an easily…
- Ep. 168: Should we put AI in charge of governance? | Roko Mijic · 1 h 2 min · Episode 168Roko Mijic is a self-described radical centrist, transhumanist, and rationalist who is probably most famous for inventing "Roko's Basilisk," a thought experiment sometimes…
- Ep. 167: Are games the key to building AGI? | Julian Togelius · 1 h 3 min · Episode 167Julian Togelius is an associate professor of computer science at New York University. His research lies at the intersection between computational intelligence and games, and he…
- Ep. 166: The story of SpaceX | Eliana Sherriff · 1 h 2 minAfter nearly a decade in TV news, Eli quit her job to become a full-time space journalist, creating content on YouTube and X. She spends most of her time covering rocket launches…
- Ep. 165: Existential risk, existential hope, and the secrets to winning at life. | James Norris · 50 min · Episode 165All his life, James has been searching for the best ways to change himself and change the world. He started as an entrepreneur at age 6 and since has co-founded or helped build 9…
- Ep. 164: The frontiers of neuromorphic quantum computing | Clifford Mapp · 1 h 3 min · Episode 164Clifford Mapp is the global head of ecosystem development and information security at Dynex, the world’s only accessible neuromorphic quantum computing cloud for solving…
- Ep. 163: AI and the coming cognitive revolution. | Nathan Labenz · 1 h 4 min · Episode 163Nathan Labenz is a technology entrepreneur, artificial intelligence analyst, and the founder and former CEO of Waymark. With a background in philosophy and a keen eye for…
- Ep. 162: Making and losing millions in crypto | Nat Eliason · 1 h 9 min · Episode 162Nat Eliason began as a successful marketer and the founder of Growth Machine before turning to writing full-time. He recently published "Crypto Confidential," an unfiltered…
- Ep. 161: Bitcoin is resistance money | Andrew Bailey · 1 h 23 minDr. Andrew M. Bailey Andrew is an interdisciplinary teacher and scholar whose work spans philosophy, politics, and economics. He is a Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College…
- Ep. 160: What makes generative AI so powerful? | Nick Frosst · 50 min · Episode 160Nick Frosst is a computer scientist and musician. He co-founded Cohere, which is a company focused on training large language models and making them available through a…
- Ep. 159: Top AI Trends for 2024 | David Shapiro · 1 h 1 min · Episode 159David Shapiro. David is a former engineer who became famous through his dozens of well-received tutorials on Youtube, covering everything from fine-tuning ChatGPT to his proposed…
- Ep. 158: abstraction and agency | John Wentworth · 60 min · Episode 158After 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…
- Ep. 157: Aristotle, AI, and what philosophy offers futurism | Gregory Salmieri · 1 h 16 min · Episode 157Dr. 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…
- Ep. 156: Algorithms won't get us to AGI | Johannes Jaeger · 1 h 1 minDr. Johannes Jaeger is a systems scientist, evolutionary biologist, educator, and natural philosopher with an extremely transdisciplinary track record. His investigations, first…
- Ep. 155: The history of invention | Anton Howes · 51 min · Episode 155Dr. 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…
- Ep. 154: How the government works (and why you should care). | Daniel Golliher · 1 h 25 min · Episode 154After 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…
- Ep. 153: AI, Alignment, and the Scaling Hypothesis | Dwarkesh Patel · 54 min · Episode 153Dwarkesh 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…
