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EP 226 Hannah Rosenberg on An Answer to Red Pilldom

Posted February 22, 202400:50:54

Jim talks with Hannah Rosenberg about the ideas in her essay "An Answer to Red Pilldom." They discuss the meaning & origins of red pilldom, how...

EP 225 Bruce Damer on a New Path for Psychedelics

Posted February 20, 202400:51:38

Jim talks with Bruce Damer about the new Center for MINDS and the ideas in his essay "Downloads from the Modern Dawn of Psychedelics." They discuss...

EP 224 Samo Burja on Geothermal Energy

Posted February 13, 202400:51:17

Jim talks with Samo Burja about the ideas in his recent article "Geothermal Energy Turns Planets Into Power Sources." They discuss the heat beneath...

EP 223 Jordan Hall on Cities, Civiums, and Becoming Christian

Posted February 8, 202401:59:45

Jim talks with Jordan Hall about the ideas in his essay "From City to Civium" and about his recent conversion to Christianity. They discuss scaling...

EP 222 Trent McConaghy on AI & Brain-Computer Interface Accelerationism (bci/acc)

Posted February 7, 202401:08:11

Jim talks with Trent McConaghy about the ideas in his recent essay "bci/acc: A Pragmatic Path to Compete with Artificial Superintelligence." They discuss...