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108 - Miles Brundage (Head of Policy Research at Open AI) on the speed of AI development and the risks and opportunities of GPT

Philosophical Disquisitions - May 03, 2023 11:00 ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
[UPDATED WITH CORRECT EPISODE LINK] In this episode I chat to Miles Brundage. Miles leads the policy research team at Open AI. Unsurprisingly, we talk a lot about GPT and generative AI. Our conservation covers the risks that arise from their use, their speed of development, how they should be ...

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Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks

Singularity.FM - May 03, 2023 07:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 184 ratings
My goal with this podcast has always been to be a bit of a gadfly to your as well as my intellectual growth and, hopefully, a midwife to your best ideas rather than a disseminator of a specific movement or ideology. Thus, while I’ve never hidden my personal views, I don’t try to make you […]

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Training Children Without Parental Consent

P.I.D. Radio - April 29, 2023 16:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
SCHOOL DISTRICTS across the country, some in cities as large as Chicago and Detroit, are enrolling high school students in mandatory JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) programs. Disturbingly, the Chicago schools requiring JROTC are mainly attended by black and Latino students. We dis...

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60 Seconds to Comply - Minute 86 - B(at)DSM

60 Seconds to Comply - April 23, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Catch Up with Stephen at the Cinema Catch-Up Club https://www.thoughtjarproductions.com/podcast-ccuc Well There's Your  Problem - The Goiana Incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34rdxDgpaaA Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Robocopminute/   Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/60seconds...

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107 - Will Large Language Models disrupt healthcare?

Philosophical Disquisitions - April 19, 2023 11:48 ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
In this episode of the podcast I chat to Jess Morley. Jess is currently a DPhil candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research focuses on the use of data in healthcare, oftentimes on the impact of big data and AI, but, as she puts it herself, usually on 'less whizzy' things. Sadly, ou...

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Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel - April 16, 2023 23:43 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Script Content:-Zoya gets caught by Alltaf and assigned the task of killing Tim-The leadup to Tim’s death from Zoya’s perspective-The aftermath of Tim’s death: burying the body and lying to Cranium-Caught by Cranium, Csaba knocks out Cranium and takes his conjuring stone-Armed with the stone, Tim...

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60 Seconds to Comply - Minute 85 - Jesus Crisis

60 Seconds to Comply - April 16, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Aubrey de Grey - Bridging the Gap between Cryonics and Life Extension

Cryonics Underground - April 12, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In this episode, Max and Daniel sit down with the renowned Aubrey de Grey to discuss the connection between life extension and cryonics. They cover a wide range of topics, diving into the latest breakthroughs and obstacles in both fields. In this captivating conversation, they explore: The cur...

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106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentient

Philosophical Disquisitions - April 11, 2023 09:43 ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
In this episode, I chat to Robert Long about AI sentience. Robert is a philosopher that works on issues related to the philosopy of mind, cognitive science and AI ethics. He is currently a philosophy fellow at the Centre for AI Safety in San Francisco. He completed his PhD at New York Universit...

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60 Seconds to Comply - Minute 84 - Evil A-Team

60 Seconds to Comply - April 09, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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105 - GPT: Higher Education's Jurassic Park Moment

Philosophical Disquisitions - April 02, 2023 22:58 ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
In this episode of the podcast, I talk to Thore Husfeldt about the impact of GPT on education. Thore is a Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copehagen, where he specialises in pretty technical algorithm-related research. He is also affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. B...

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105 - GPT: Higher Education's Jurassic Park Moment?

Philosophical Disquisitions - April 02, 2023 22:58 ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
In this episode of the podcast, I talk to Thore Husfeldt about the impact of GPT on education. Thore is a Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copehagen, where he specialises in pretty technical algorithm-related research. He is also affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. B...

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104 - What will be the economic impact of GPT?

Philosophical Disquisitions - March 28, 2023 09:40 ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
In this episode of the podcast, I chat to Anton Korinek about the economic impacts of GPT. Anton is a Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia and the Economics Lead at the Centre for AI Governance. He has researched widely on the topic of automation and labour markets. We talk abou...

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103 - GPT: How worried should we be?

Philosophical Disquisitions - March 23, 2023 22:28 ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
In this episode of the podcast, I chat to Olle Häggström. Olle is a professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. We talk about GPT and LLMs more generally. What are they? Are they intelligent? What risks do they pose or presage? Are we proceeding with the...

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Fractured World

P.I.D. Radio - March 11, 2023 18:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
ONE OF THE LARGEST banks in America went belly-up Friday. Silicon Valley Bank, with nearly $190 billion in deposits, was seized by federal regulators, leading to questions about how far this financial contagion will spread. We also discuss the global split between the West and the rest of the w...

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The Cult of Odin

P.I.D. Radio - March 11, 2023 17:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
A FORMER U.S. ARMY SOLDIER from Louisville has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for plotting to kill his unit in a deadly ambush. 24-year-old Ethan Melzer belongs to the Order of Nine Angles, a neo-Nazi cult that believes groups like the Satanic Temple and Temple of Set are just play-acting...

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Book of the Dead

P.I.D. Radio - March 04, 2023 17:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN EGYPT announced the discovery of a copy of the Book of the Dead. This seems fitting, given some of the news of the past week. The papyrus scroll, which measured more than 50 feet long when unrolled, belonged to a man named Ahmose who lived around 300 BC. It features text and i...

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Rebecca Ziegler - Tomorrow Bio Sets Sail for the New World

Cryonics Underground - March 01, 2023 20:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In this episode we’re speaking with Rebecca Ziegler - Product Manager at Tomorrow Bio, a member of the Berlin Standby Team, and the newest moderator on the Cryosphere. Why Rebecca chose business over politics What it’s like to work at Tomorrow Bio Job opportunities in European Cryonics Why T...

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Special: Farewell to Dr. Michael S. Heiser

P.I.D. Radio - February 25, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
This week, the world lost a giant among Bible scholars, and we lost a good friend: Dr. Michael Heiser. Mike went out of his way to share his research with what he called “Christian Middle-Earth”—those of us who aren’t scholars, but who want more theological meat than we get in most churches (an...

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Spirit Behind the Music | Ep 04 | William Ramsey | Let's Talk about Kanye West

Don't Let Them Burn - February 23, 2023 21:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratings
Join us as we drop some truth bombs about the biggest Hip-Hop star in recent history. Support this ministry:: https://linktr.ee/dontletthemburn Got Films: http://www.gotfilms.com/

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Lurching Into World War 3

P.I.D. Radio - February 18, 2023 18:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
THE UNITED STATES has “formally determined” that Russia is guilty of crimes against humanity in Ukraine. That statement by Vice President Kamala Harris at the Munich Security Conference is another mile marker along the road to World War 3—a conflict that some historians say has already begun. (...

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Nikolas Badminton on Facing Our Futures: Futurism is Activism

Singularity.FM - February 14, 2023 14:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 184 ratings
My podcast guest today is Nikolas Badminton. Nik is the Chief Futurist at futurist.com. He has worked with over 300 organizations in foresight, strategy, and disruption – including NASA, the United Nations, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Rolls Royce, and many others. Nik is a friend of mine, and in ad...

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Faces of the Old Gods

P.I.D. Radio - February 11, 2023 18:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
DISTURBING IMAGERY is all around us, but the Christian church in the West is so desupernaturalized that we don’t recognize what’s right in front of our eyes. From last Sunday’s Grammy Awards to the statue honoring the late Justice Ruth Bader to Travis Scott’s deadly 2021 Astroworld Festival con...

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The Watchers and Göbekli Tepe

P.I.D. Radio - February 11, 2023 17:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
Archaeologists call it the world’s oldest temple. What motivated people in southern Türkiye 12,000 years ago to build megalithic monuments with blocks of stone weighing upwards of 20 tons? Dr. Aaron Judkins, author of Guardians of Göbekli, and Dr. Judd Burton, author of The Nephilim Dossier, jo...

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Inanna, the Elders, and the Nine

P.I.D. Radio - February 04, 2023 18:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratings
IT’S ANOTHER week of high weirdness here on Planet Earth! An eight-foot golden statue called NOW was unveiled atop a courthouse in New York City. It’s supposed to represent the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but the ram’s horns and serpentine appendages remind us more of the ge...

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Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel - February 01, 2023 21:28 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Another double episode with pages from both Ted and Jon. Script Content:– Richard and Alexis urge Zoya to take Tim’s deal at the Gaia awards-Zoya is initiated into Alltaf-Zoya witnesses Tim trying to force his way through the Alltaf lobby-Richard and Alexis coach Zoya to have Tim complete the fir...

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Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel - January 30, 2023 19:12 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
In this double episode, we get pages from both Ted and Jon. Script Content:-Tim, Zoya, and Csaba build shelters on Katall-Tim hunts for a suitable murder target-Zoya offers Tim an out (he doesn’t take it)-Tim discovers Cranium’s secret TV lair and decides to make Cranium the target-Tim goes to mu...

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My NBF Contest Pitch: The Greatest Leadership Opportunity of the 21st Century

Singularity.FM - January 25, 2023 14:15 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 184 ratings
This is my 4 min video pitch for the 2023 Nordic Business Forum Speaker Contest. Hope you enjoy it but feel free to let me know if that’s not the case 😉  The Greatest Leadership Opportunity in the 21st Century A story I stumbled on in 2006 changed my life. “The Singularity is Near” […]

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Reign of the Tech | Ep 10 | These Genetic Themes in Cinema Mean More than You Think

Don't Let Them Burn - January 20, 2023 21:45 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 33 ratings
In this episode of Reign of the Tech, I go into some detail about a montage of clips from various genres in the spectrum of the cinematic experience. It might surprise you with what you find out. Support this ministry through this link: https://linktr.ee/dontletthemburn Got Films: http://www.got...

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The Political Edge | Ep 010 | These Events in 2023 Have Started an Upward Momentum!

Don't Let Them Burn - January 15, 2023 06:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 33 ratings
Join Rhonda and I as we discuss some recent events in the headlines that provide us with a barometer for the coming months ahead. Support this ministry through this link: https://linktr.ee/dontletthemburn Got Films: http://www.gotfilms.com/