Robert Breedlove has spent years thinking about what money actually is. His argument: it's not really about investment. Money is the language of human action. And sound money is what stops states from financing perpetual war.
Episode 2 @Breedlove22
Philip Rosedale built Second Life into a $750M-a-year virtual economy. He also ran a simulation that showed pure free markets always end the same way: wealth concentrates, then collapses.
What he proposes instead might surprise you.
Episode 1 @philiprosedale
Cameron Berg founded a nonprofit that does the empirical work most AI labs won't touch: asking whether the systems we're building are actually conscious, and what we owe them if they are.
His own probability estimate that they already are? 25 to 35 percent. Episode 8 @CamHBerg
Josh Lehman is one of the maintainers of OpenClaw, and he's shipping like a beast. In this episode he tells us how he built and shipped a paying SaaS product in 36 hours from a Costco parking lot, talking to his claw between family obligations. Episode 4 @jlehman_
Ginevra Lily Davis makes the case for positively-valenced consciousness: that any sufficiently intelligent system will discover it.
Our favorite one-line take on Yudkowsky: "Yudkowsky would say that Yudkowsky is a paperclip maximizer."
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Timour Kosters builds pop-up cities: month-long villages of 500 to 1,000 builders. One participant raised $10M for a neuroscience startup. Another, from Nairobi, won a multimillion-dollar Nvidia grant.
Loneliness, he argues, is a design problem.
Episode 5 @joinedgecity@guystocks
Andreas Gomez Emilsson and the Qualia Research Institute are making a bold bet: suffering is solvable.
The conversation starts with their insight: A 3mg dose of DMT can abort a cluster headache in under a minute.
Episode 6 @algekalipso@guystocks
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