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#90 César Hidalgo: How To Understand Sociotechnical Systems Jul 23, 2021

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César Hidalgo is a Chilean-Spanish-American scholar in economic complexity, data visualization, and applied artificial intelligence. He’s written some great books that we chat about today like Why Information Grows and How Humans Judge Machines. https://cesarhidalgo.com/ https://twitter.com/cesifoti https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://www.roote.co/ https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark Chapters: 00:00 Intro 2:10 How to represent ideas visually 5:45 What makes something a great visualization? 7:30 What is the through-line of your work? 10:30 How the printing press changed who can be famous 13:20 What messages are optimized for the internet? 16:30 Using the internet for governance 22:10 What are new network-native institutions? 26:55 How Humans Judge Machines? 31:20 Judging institutions on intentions vs. outcomes 36:30 How do humans judge machines on Haidt's moral foundations? 41:20 How did you give the book away for free as a pdf? 46:00 Connecting the physics of information to the geography of knowledge 51:30 Check out Center for Collective Learning

#89 Grace Lindsay: Your Brain Is Math Jul 19, 2021

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Grace Lindsay is a computational neuroscientist who recently wrote the book "Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering and mathematics" have shaped our understanding of the brain. It was a delightful book and we dive into how these mathematical lenses help us understand the brain. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... https://twitter.com/neurograce https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://www.roote.co/ https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark

#88 Andy Clark: How Brains Model The World Jul 01, 2021

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Andy Clark is a British philosopher and a Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He’s written some great books on humans as cyborgs, extended cognition, and most recently Surfing Uncertainty, on predictive processing. We chat about how brains model the world. Job opportunity with Andy: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/research-fellow-xscape-ref-6023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clark https://www.roote.co/ https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

#87 Casper ter Kuile: How Religion Is Changing Jun 08, 2021

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Casper ter Kuile is helping to build a world of joyful belonging in the midst of enormous changes in how we experience community and spirituality. He’s the author of The Power of Ritual, a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, a co-host of the award-winning podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, and the co-founder of the startup Sacred Design Lab. We discuss the future of meaning and religion. https://twitter.com/caspertk https://www.roote.co/ https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

#86 Solo: Cultural Progress Studies and Predictive Processing Jun 03, 2021

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I discuss: There Is A Level 5, Cultural Progress Studies, Predictive Processing, Internet Annotations. https://www.roote.co/ https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

#85 Isabella Garcia-Camargo: Information Counterwarfare May 20, 2021

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Isabella Garcia-Camargo works at Stanford’s Internet Observatory as a research analyst and the project manager for two amazing projects: the Election Integrity Partnership and the Virality Project. https://twitter.com/igarciacamargo https://www.viralityproject.org/ https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

#84 adrienne maree brown: Decentralized Organizing and Emergent Strategy May 11, 2021

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adrienne maree brown is an author, doula, women's rights activist and black feminist based in Detroit, Michigan. We chat about bottom-up movement organizing from her book Emergent Strategy. https://twitter.com/adriennemaree?lang=en https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

#83 Kevin Kelly: Vanishing Asia and The Technium Apr 28, 2021

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Kevin Kelly has a variety of interesting pursuits. He is the Senior Maverick for Wired, which he helped co-found 28 years ago. He is the author of several books on technological evolution like What Technology Wants. He is also an excellent photographer and is kickstarting a massive photo book, Vanishing Asia. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kk-org/vanishing-asia https://www.recomendo.com/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7954936-what-technology-wants https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark https://www.roote.co/

#82 Sarah Drinkwater, Omidyar: Building a Movement for Responsible Technology Mar 15, 2021

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Sarah Drinkwater is the Director of Responsible Technology at Omidyar Network and has supported an amazing variety of great projects in this space. We chat about movement-building and language in the responsible tech space. https://twitter.com/sarahdrinkwater/ https://omidyar.com/ https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark

#81 Betsy Cooper: How Technologists Can Craft Policy Feb 08, 2021

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Betsy Cooper is the Director of The Aspen Institute’s Tech Policy Hub, a Y-Combinator for tech policy. We chat about Betsy's work teaching technologists to shape government policy. Apply to their fellowship by Feb 22: https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/programs/ https://twitter.com/BetsOnTech https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark http://rhyslindmark.substack.com/

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