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#312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man Aug 16, 2022

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Duncan Trussell is a comedian, host of The Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast, and co-creator of The Midnight Gospel. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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The Midnight Gospel: https://netflix.com/themidnightgospel
Books mentioned:
Superintelligence: https://amzn.to/3QufVEs
Man’s Search for Meaning: https://amzn.to/3vU9S42

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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:13) – Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence
(27:03) – Artificial intelligence
(55:33) – Joe Rogan
(1:04:06) – Facing death
(1:20:54) – Bhakti yoga
(1:27:46) – Afterlife
(1:38:10) – Suffering
(2:03:25) – War
(2:21:19) – Depression
(2:43:08) – Evil
(2:53:24) – Burning Man
(3:08:56) – The Midnight Gospel
(3:13:48) – Advice for young people
(3:23:19) – Duncan reads a poem

#311 – Magatte Wade: Africa, Capitalism, Communism, and the Future of Humanity Aug 13, 2022

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Magatte Wade is an entrepreneur with a passion for creating positive change in Africa through economic freedom. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Magatte’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/magattew
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Magatte’s Facebook: https://facebook.com/themagattewade
Magatte’s Website: https://magattewade.com
Websites mentioned:
Austin housing project: https://texansforreasonablesolutions.org
Center for African Prosperity: https://atlasnetwork.org/partners/center-for-african-prosperity

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(05:55) – Africa
(34:48) – Magatte’s story
(1:03:36) – Corruption
(1:25:01) – Advice for young people
(1:46:02) – Identity
(2:06:58) – BLM
(2:24:18) – CRT and racism
(2:54:32) – African geopolitics
(3:03:02) – Overpopulation
(3:21:49) – Loss

#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy Aug 08, 2022

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Andrew Bustamante is a former CIA covert intelligence officer. Check out his work and podcast at https://everydayspy.com Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Everyday Spy: https://everydayspy.com/quiz
Everyday Spy Podcast: https://everydayspy.com/podcast
Andrew’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/everydayspy
Andrew’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/everydayspy

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:10) – CIA and the President
(18:47) – War in Ukraine
(59:44) – Most powerful intelligence agencies
(1:06:54) – David Petraeus
(1:16:31) – Undercover disguises
(1:29:30) – Human nature
(1:38:49) – CIA recruitment process
(1:55:33) – CIA and secrecy
(2:02:06) – Cyber security
(2:12:47) – Sexpionage
(2:19:22) – Private intelligence
(2:32:48) – NSA and Snowden
(3:00:48) – Conspiracy theories
(3:21:55) – CIA and UFOs
(3:36:41) – Spy tricks
(3:53:23) – Advice for young people

#309 – John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets Aug 04, 2022

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John Carmack is a legendary programmer, co-founder of id Software, and lead programmer of many revolutionary video games including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and the Commander Keen series. He is also the founder of Armadillo Aerospace, and for many years the CTO of Oculus VR. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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John’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack
Books mentioned:
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Game Engine Black Book Wolfenstein 3D: https://amzn.to/3QlOqg8

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:49) – Programming languages
(40:53) – Modern programming
(50:55) – Day in the life
(58:45) – Hard work
(1:01:58) – Pizza and Diet Coke
(1:04:43) – Setup
(1:30:01) – id Software
(2:02:50) – Commander Keen
(2:09:36) – Hacker ethic
(2:17:16) – Wolfenstein 3D
(2:37:14) – Doom
(2:51:34) – Quake
(3:15:55) – John Romero
(3:23:42) – Metaverse
(3:52:04) – Elon Musk
(3:57:59) – Mars
(4:07:01) – Nuclear energy
(4:10:39) – AGI
(4:57:51) – Andrej Karpathy
(5:00:50) – Martial arts
(5:09:49) – Advice for young people
(5:18:49) – Meaning of life

#308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens Aug 01, 2022

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Lt. Ryan Graves is a former Navy fighter pilot, who has worked on advanced research and development programs for DARPA, Office of Naval Research, and Air Force Research Labs on topics of multi-agent collaborative autonomy, AI-assisted air-to-air combat, and manned-unmanned teaming technologies. Ryan and people in his squadron detected and engaged with UFOs on multiple occasions, and he has been one of the few people willing to speak publicly about these experiences. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Ryan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/uncertainvector
Ryan’s Website: https://uncertainvector.com
DoD Statement: https://defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:28) – Top Gun analysis
(19:33) – Fighter jets
(1:07:00) – UFO sightings
(1:33:28) – Congressional hearing
(1:41:29) – Tic Tac UFO & Gimbal UFO
(1:55:55) – Alien life
(2:09:17) – Autonomous weapon systems
(2:26:24) – Advice for young people
(2:34:40) – Meaning of life

#307 – Brian Armstrong: Coinbase, Cryptocurrency, and Government Regulation Jul 29, 2022

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Brian Armstrong is the CEO of Coinbase. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Brian’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong
Brian’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brian_armstrong
Coinbase’s Website: https://www.coinbase.com
ResearchHub: https://www.researchhub.com
NewLimit: https://www.newlimit.com/

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:19) – Programming
(14:17) – Coinbase
(45:05) – Startup advice
(1:02:56) – Economic freedom
(1:12:06) – Coinbase technology
(1:23:33) – Listing on Coinbase
(1:32:47) – Regulations
(1:47:25) – Crypto dominance
(1:51:42) – Employee activism
(2:08:00) – Leadership
(2:10:39) – ResearchHub
(2:20:17) – NewLimit
(2:24:44) – Advice for young people
(2:28:55) – Meaning of life

#306 – Oriol Vinyals: Deep Learning and Artificial General Intelligence Jul 26, 2022

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Oriol Vinyals is the Research Director and Deep Learning Lead at DeepMind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Oriol’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/oriolvinyalsml
Oriol’s publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NkzyCvUAAAAJ
DeepMind’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeepMind
DeepMind’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/deepmind
DeepMind’s Website: https://deepmind.com
Papers:
1. Gato: https://deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent
2. Flamingo: https://deepmind.com/blog/tackling-multiple-tasks-with-a-single-visual-language-model
3. Language Models are Few-Shot Learners: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
4. Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07682
5. Attention Is All You Need: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(05:18) – AI
(20:14) – Weights
(26:33) – Gato
(1:01:22) – Meta learning
(1:15:21) – Neural networks
(1:37:46) – Emergence
(1:44:30) – AI sentience
(2:08:27) – AGI

#305 – Martin Rees: Black Holes, Alien Life, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang Jul 23, 2022

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Lord Martin Rees is a cosmologist and astrophysicist at Cambridge University and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Martin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/lordmartinrees
Martin’s Website: https://www.martinrees.uk
Martin’s Books:
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The End of Astronauts: https://amzn.to/3B604ro
On the Future: https://amzn.to/3OlzLjB

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:39) – Understanding the universe
(15:09) – Human limitations and AI
(24:05) – Dark matter
(31:25) – Vast universe
(39:07) – Alien life
(52:59) – Space exploration
(1:17:22) – Future technology
(1:28:44) – Newton and Einstein
(1:32:46) – Black holes
(1:46:27) – Cosmological threats
(2:13:31) – Advice for young people
(2:16:02) – Mortality

#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church Jul 20, 2022

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Robert Barron is a bishop and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Robert’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/bishopbarron
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Word on Fire’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/wordonfire_catholicministries
Word on Fire’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/WordOnFire
Word on Fire’s Website: https://wordonfire.org
Robert’s Books:
Redeeming the Time: https://amzn.to/3PwNQf0
Catholicism: https://amzn.to/3RyDMEh

OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:50) – Who is God?
(20:30) – Christianity
(25:18) – Sin
(42:48) – The Trinity
(44:32) – Catholicism
(54:29) – Sexual abuse scandal
(1:01:16) – Evil
(1:12:59) – Atheism
(1:24:21) – Jordan Peterson
(1:26:56) – Jesus
(1:29:42) – The Bible
(1:32:17) – America
(1:35:08) – Nietzsche
(1:39:12) – Word on Fire
(1:42:31) – Gay marriage
(1:44:48) – Abortion
(1:51:38) – Advice for young people
(1:54:12) – Mortality
(1:58:30) – Meaning of life

#303 – Steve Keen: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics Jul 17, 2022

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Steve Keen is a heterodox economist and author. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Steve’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/profstevekeen
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:26) – Defining economics
(14:26) – Schools of economics
(38:45) – Karl Marx
(57:00) – Labor theory of value
(1:16:45) – Socialism
(1:31:48) – Soviet Union
(1:45:08) – China
(2:05:00) – Climate change
(2:27:03) – Economics vs Politics
(2:35:06) – Minsky’s model
(2:49:50) – Financial crisis
(2:55:07) – Inflation
(3:08:21) – Marxism
(3:15:42) – Space and AI
(3:21:47) – Advice for young people
(3:25:38) – Depression
(3:30:10) – Love
(3:34:11) – Mortality

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