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EPISODE · Jul 28, 2026 · 1H 18M

The Transcendent OODA Loop: Jordan Hall on AI, Strategy & What Makes Us Human

from No Way Out · host Brian "Ponch" Rivera and Mark McGrath

Send us Fan MailThe OODA loop is not a four-step process. Jordan Hall came on to prove it. Co-founder of DivX and Neurohacker Collective, founding voice of Game B, and former Santa Fe Institute trustee, Hall has spent months deep in math, physics, and AI, and he surfaces with a sharp claim: there is a transcendent OODA loop, the strategy that stays optimal and most evolvable across every landscape, and it works as an attractor in strategy space. Whatever sits closest to that peak wins.Ponch takes it from Boyd to active inference to the future of work. Why LLMs are powerful but ungrounded. Why the coherent generalist now beats the specialist. Why big organizations are dissolving into fluid squads. Why AI is the best bullshitter ever built, and why the only skill that matters is the ability to call it. And why, on the far side of the disillusionment, nothing an AI can do was ever essential to being human.John R. Boyd's Conceptual Spiral was originally titled No Way Out. In his own words: “There is no way out unless we can eliminate the features just cited. Since we don’t know how to do this, we must continue the whirl of reorientation…” A promotional message for Ember Health.  Safe and effective IV ketamine care for individuals seeking relief from depression. Ember Health's evidence-based, partner-oriented, and patient-centered care model, boasting an 84% treatment success rate with 44% of patients reaching depression remission. It also mentions their extensive experience with over 40,000 infusions and treatment of more than 2,500 patients, including veterans, first responders, and individuals with anxiety and PTSD Stay connected with No Way Out and The Whirl Of ReOrientationX: @NoWayOutcast · @PonchAGLX · @NoWayOutMooseSubstack: The Whirl Of ReOrientation - www.thewhirl.substack.com

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Send us Fan Mail The OODA loop is not a four-step process. Jordan Hall came on to prove it. Co-founder of DivX and Neurohacker Collective, founding voice of Game B, and former Santa Fe Institute trustee, Hall has spent months deep in math, physics, and AI, and he surfaces with a sharp claim: there is a transcendent OODA loop, the strategy that stays optimal and most evolvable across every landscape, and it works as an attractor in strategy space. Whatever sits closest to that peak wins. Ponch...

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