Episodes 171
Avg. Duration 59m
Activity Dormant
Since Jul 2020
Latest Episode Mar 2025

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About This Podcast

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

Mar 06, 2025 52m

How 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 result of a decade of…

Ep. 171: China, Communism, and Bitcoin | Roger Huang

Nov 05, 2024 1h 13m

Roger 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 specifics of the…

Ep. 170: The story of the first AGI | David Jilk

Oct 22, 2024 45m

David 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 worked on cognitive models…

Ep. 169: Fractal University, Scenius, and the future of higher ed. | Andrew Rose

Oct 08, 2024 1h 7m

Andrew 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 replicable model for a…

Ep. 168: Should we put AI in charge of governance? | Roko Mijic

Sep 21, 2024 1h 2m

Roko Mijic is a self-described radical centrist, transhumanist, and rationalist who is probably most famous for inventing "Roko's Basilisk," a thought experiment sometimes described as the world's…

Ep. 167: Are games the key to building AGI? | Julian Togelius

Sep 10, 2024 1h 3m

Julian 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 is currently focused…

Ep. 166: The story of SpaceX | Eliana Sherriff

Aug 27, 2024 1h 2m

After 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 and documenting the…

Ep. 165: Existential risk, existential hope, and the secrets to winning at life. | James Norris

Aug 13, 2024 49m

All 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 businesses and 16…

Ep. 164: The frontiers of neuromorphic quantum computing | Clifford Mapp

Jul 30, 2024 1h 3m

Clifford Mapp is the global head of ecosystem development and information security at Dynex, the world’s only accessible neuromorphic quantum computing cloud for solving real-world problems at scale.…

Ep. 163: AI and the coming cognitive revolution. | Nathan Labenz

Jul 16, 2024 1h 4m

Nathan 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 innovation, Nathan led…

Ep. 162: Making and losing millions in crypto | Nat Eliason

Jul 01, 2024 1h 9m

Nat 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, insider’s account of the…

Ep. 161: Bitcoin is resistance money | Andrew Bailey

Jun 18, 2024 1h 23m

Dr. 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 (Singapore), and he…

Ep. 160: What makes generative AI so powerful? | Nick Frosst

Jun 04, 2024 50m

Nick 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 network-based API. He was also…

Ep. 159: Top AI Trends for 2024 | David Shapiro

May 21, 2024 1h 1m

David 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 solution to the…

Ep. 158: abstraction and agency | John Wentworth

May 07, 2024 59m

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…

Ep. 157: Aristotle, AI, and what philosophy offers futurism | Gregory Salmieri

Apr 23, 2024 1h 16m

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…

Ep. 156: Algorithms won't get us to AGI | Johannes Jaeger

Apr 09, 2024 1h 1m

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…

Ep. 155: The history of invention | Anton Howes

Mar 26, 2024 51m

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…

Ep. 154: How the government works (and why you should care). | Daniel Golliher

Mar 12, 2024 1h 25m

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,…

Ep. 153: AI, Alignment, and the Scaling Hypothesis | Dwarkesh Patel

Feb 27, 2024 53m

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…

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