1. Human is Not a Thing (w/ Reza Negarestani)

Reza Negarestani has put together one of the strongest philosophical conceptions of Artificial General Intelligence. In this episode, Reza, Marek, and Roberto hit virtually every limit of AI theory -- from the outer banks of the "human", the boundaries of creativity and imagination, the borderlands of contemporary computation, and the social and political and aesthetic implications of all of the above. This episode is a great companion piece to not just Reza's chapter in Choreomata (Galatea Reloaded: Imagination Inside-Out Imagine) but his absolutely mindblowing work Intelligence and Spirit. We reference a few texts in the interview:Intelligence and Spirit (in our opinion, one of the most important treatises on AGI)Reza's work on the "inhuman" in The Labor of the Inhuman and Drafting the InhumanHis collaboration with the brilliant visual artist and theorist Keith Tilford, who also has a significant piece in Choreomata, but who most famously collaborated with Reza on ChronosisReza's conversation with one of our favorite political theorists, Nick Srnicek, via the awesome Impossible Object BooksWhile this episode is quite technical, we are confident that repeat listens are rewarding. Reza will uproot everything you believe about Artificial Intelligence in this incredible interview.