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Singularity Weblog — 194 episodes
Steven Kotler on We Are As Gods: Godlike Power, Stone Age Minds
We Don’t Need More. We Need Better: Intelligence Scales. Wisdom Does Not.
Why I Cancelled ChatGPT and Switched to Claude, And Why You Should Too
Ada Palmer on Inventing the Renaissance: How Golden and Dark Ages Are Constructed and Why They Matter
Graham Priest on Dialetheism, True Contradictions, the Liar Paradox & Why Classical Logic Isn’t Enough
Breaking: Did Integral AI’s Jad Tarifi Just Announce AGI?
Jacob Ward on The Loop, AI, and a World Without Real Choices
Robot Souls & Junk Code: Dr. Eve Poole on Programming Humanity into AI
Petter Törnberg on Algorithmic Tyranny, the Rise of Digital Modernity and Seeing Like a Platform
The World’s a Circus | Nikola Danaylov Keynote at St. John’s Circus Fest 2025
Adam Becker on More Everything Forever and Big Tech’s Future Myths
Angus Fletcher: Why AI Will Never Replace Human Storythinking or Primal Intelligence
Donald J. Robertson on How to Think Like Socrates in the Age of AI
Dr. Jad Tarifi of Integral AI: “We Now Have All the Ingredients for AGI”
Jamelle Lindo on Emotional Intelligence in the Age of AI: Harness the Power of Emotion
Transhumanist Manifestos and Dilemmas: A Decade and a Half of Reflection
Get Your Why before AI: Technology is The How, Not the Why or What
From Mutual Dependence to Obsolescence: The Future of Labor in an AI-Driven Economy
Our Future, AI and Veganism: 6 Reasons Why I Went Vegan
It’s Ethics. Not Tech Ethics.
Modern Bard Dr. Martin Shaw: Be a Story-maker for Your Times
Kevin Kelly on Wisdom and Excellent Advice for Living
Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks
Nikolas Badminton on Facing Our Futures: Futurism is Activism
My NBF Contest Pitch: The Greatest Leadership Opportunity of the 21st Century
Massimo Pigliucci on Story, Virtue, Character and AI
Ukrainian Transhumanist Alex Padalka: A War Against Our Democratic Values
Ursula Eysin on Uncertainty and Future Scenarios
Zoltan Istvan on AI, Transhumanism, Politics and Ethics
David Wood on the Singularity Principles
Danko Nikolic and John Smart on AI, Practopoiesis, and Autopoiesis
Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell on Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History
David Loy on Zen, EcoDharma, AI and Story
Byron Reese on Stories, Dice and Rocks That Think
Cadell Last on Nietzsche, Transhumanism and Story
Joscha Bach on AI, Cosmology, Existence and the Bible
The Cassandra of Futurism Faith Popcorn: Futurism Doesn’t Come from the Past
Kendall Haven on Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story
Brian Boyd on the Origin of Stories
John Smart: Foresight is Your Hidden Superpower
Jonah Sachs on Winning the Story Wars: Storytelling is our neglected secret weapon
Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling: We’re storytelling animals
Roshi Jundo Cohen on Zen, AI, Transhumanism and Saving the World
Angus Fletcher on Wonderworks: Seek The Untold Story
SciFi Author PJ Manney on the New Mythos and (Con)Science
Lisa Cron on Story or Die: Question the Story
Chapter 12: The Politics Story
Chapter 11: The AI Story
Chapter 10: The Capitalism Story
Nikola Danaylov: Technology Reveals Who We Are, Not The Future
How to Be a Futurist [Without Predicting the Future]
Chapter 9: The Technology Story
Chapter 8: The Science Story
Chapter 7: The Human Story
Part II: Our Story
Chapter 6: The Biology of Story
Chapter 5: The Importance of Story
Chapter 4: The Power of the Storyteller
Chapter 3: The Power of Story
Chapter 2: The Story of Story
Chapter 1: The Definition of Story
Part I: Story
ReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future
Gus Hosein on Privacy: We’ve been well-meaning but stupid
Francesca Ferrando on Philosophical Posthumanism
Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Change and the Ministry for the Future
Matthew Cole on Vegan Sociology, Ethics, Transhumanism and Technology
Thomas Homer-Dixon on Climate Change and Commanding Hope
Maria Farrell on Technology, Ethics, Stories and the Prodigal Techbro
Futurist.COM Founder Glen Hiemstra on 40 Years of Futurism: The Future is Something We Do
Laura Major and Julie Shah on What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots
Juan Enriquez on Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics
Chris Hables Gray on Pandemics, Cyborgs, Politics and Trump
Debora Spar on Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
Melanie Mitchell on AI: Intelligence is a Complex Phenomenon
Jenny Kleeman on Sex Robots and Vegan Meat
Jacinta González on ICE, Palantir, Big Tech and Surveillance
Johan Steyn Interviews Nikola Danaylov on Artificial Intelligence
Renée Cummings on AI Ethics and Racism: Do what is right!
Ada Palmer on Viking Ethics, Laws of History, Partial Victories, and Terra Ignota
Aaron Benanav on Automation, Technological Unemployment and UBI
Futurist Karl Schroeder on Foresight and Strangemaking COVID19
Nikola Danaylov on Transhumanism, the Singularity, AI and Threats to Democracy
Prof. Ada Palmer on Pandemics, Progress, History, Teleology and the Singularity
Prof. Massimo Pigliucci: Accompany science and technology with a good dose of philosophy
Canadian SF Author Karl Schroeder: We’re living in a moment of creative possibility
The Happy Ways Podcast with Jon Nielsen: Nikola Danaylov on COVID-19
Former Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian: Never give up on privacy!
James W. Clement on the Switch: Longevity, Fasting, Protein Cycling and Keto
Nikola Danaylov at Dark Futures: NeoTechnocracy – The Future is Worse than You Think
Former IBM Watson Team Leader David Ferrucci on AI and Elemental Cognition
Katy Cook on the Psychology of Silicon Valley
Cathy O’Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Threatens Democracy
Technology is a Magnifying Mirror, Not a Crystal Ball
Gary Marcus on Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
Prof. Steve Fuller on Transhumanism: Ask yourself what is human?
Cory Doctorow on Walkaway: This will all be so great if we don’t screw it up
Ex-Google Design Ethicist Tristan Harris on Technology and Human Downgrading
Andreas Antonopoulos: Just because you don’t need bitcoin, doesn’t mean it’s not needed.
Sir Martin Rees on the Future: Prospects for Humanity
Media Theorist Douglas Rushkoff on Team Human
Dr. Joseph Mercola on Health and Longevity: Take Health into Your Own Hands
Joscha Bach: We need to understand the nature of AI to understand who we are
Dr. Michael Greger on How Not to Age
Stuart Russell on Artificial Intelligence: What if we succeed?
Roman Yampolskiy on Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security
“Oracle of Silicon Valley” Tim O’Reilly on WTF: Do Work That Matters
Physicist Max Tegmark on Life 3.0: What We Do Makes a Difference
Transhumanist Manifesto Inspires WIRED Article on Transhumanism
Philosopher Peter Singer on AI, Transhumanism and Ethics
Nikola Danaylov on the Future Grind Podcast
Jonathan Taplin on Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
Entrepreneurial Activist Joi Ito on Whiplash and the MIT Media Lab
Quid and Primer Founder Sean Gourley: If You Don’t Own the Algorithm, the Algorithm Owns You
Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II: Death is Wrong and Life is Right
Sci-Fi Great PJ Manney on (ID)Entity and Weaponizing Narrative: Everyone has a voice. Use it!
Futurist David Wood on Transcending Politics: A Better Politics is Beckoning Us Forward
Bill Nye the Science Guy: We Can Solve The World’s Problems
Jose Cordeiro on Longevity and Cryonics Summit: The World Will Be A Better Place Tomorrow
Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss: Keep on Asking Questions
“Conversations with the Future” Book Reading
Angel Investor Matthew Le Merle on How to “Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era”
Nikola and Amish on their April Fool’s Prank: Serious about Comedy and Comedy about the Serious
Dr. Amish Patel: The Universe is a Simulation and I Have the Proof
GoodAI CEO Marek Rosa on the General AI Challenge
Suzanne Gildert on Kindred AI: Non-Biological Sentiences are on the Horizon
Gerd Leonhard on Technology vs Humanity: The Future Belongs to Those Who Can Hear It Coming
Technology is NOT Enough!
The Age of Em: Robin Hanson on Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
On Thanksgiving I’m thankful for you! What are you thankful for?
Deconstructing Socrates and the Future of Singularity 1on1: Nikola Danaylov Gets Interviewed by Trevor Haldenby
Kevin Kelly on The Inevitable: 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Nikola Danaylov and John Rennie on TRT World News: Are we nearing the Singularity?
Marcin Jakubowski on Open Source Ecology: From Mud Hut to Singularity in 1 Day
Venture Capitalist Albert Wenger on Basic Income and World After Capital
Richard Jones on Against Transhumanism: the Delusion of Technological Transcendence
Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on AI and the Singularity
Spencer Wolf on his Mindbender Sci Fi Novel “After Mind”
Richard Stallman on Free Software: Freedom is Worth the Inconvenience
Robert J. Sawyer on Quantum Night: There is nothing inherently unknowable
Stephen E. Arnold on Search Engines and Intelligence Gathering
A Transhumanist Manifesto [Redux]
Hamlet’s Transhumanist Dilemma: Will Technology Replace Biology? [Redux]
Nick Gogerty on SolarCoin: Think Networks and Adaptation
Calum Chace on Surviving AI
Ex CIA Spook Robert Steele on Open Source Everything: Ethics is an Operating System
Michael Fossel on Aging and the Telomerase Revolution
BioViva CEO Liz Parrish on Becoming Gene Therapy Test Subject
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Socrates Deconstructs Singularity University
Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan on His Presidential Campaign
Unanimous AI CEO Dr. Louis Rosenberg on Human Swarming
DJ MacLennan on his Cryonics book “Frozen to Life”
Dr. Michael Fratkin on Life, Death and Palliative Care
Singularity University Global Ambassador Salim Ismail on Exponential Organizations
Roman Yampolskiy on Artificial Superintelligence
BioViva CEO Liz Parrish: Gene Therapy is NOT a Monstrous Science
Marshall Brain: We’re approaching humanity’s make or break period
Jack Andraka on his Breakthrough and Changing the World
Ramez Naam on Apex, Science, Politics and Ethics
Nikola Danaylov on Review the Future Podcast: What Do Experts Think About the Singularity?
Martin Ford: Technological Unemployment is an Issue We Need To Discuss
PJ Manney on her sci fi novel (R)Evolution
Miguel Nicolelis and Ronald Cicurel: The Singularity Isn’t Near and the Brain Can’t Be Simulated
Emily Drabant Conley: We are at the infancy of a genomic revolution
Seth Godin: Science Fiction is Really Important But Not Because It’s Right
Futurist David Wood on Transhumanism: Radical Change Lies Ahead
Rick Tumlinson on Space: We are here to go there. Now go do something about it!
Calum Chace on Pandora’s Brain: AI is Coming and It Could Be the Best or the Worst Thing
William Hertling: Expose Yourself to a Diversity of Inputs!
FBI Futurist Marc Goodman on Future Crimes
Dr. Michael Fossel: Compassion is the reason to reverse aging!
Cryonicist David Ettinger: Take Steps and Be Prepared!
Greg Bear, Ramez Naam and William Hertling on the Singularity
SciFi Master Greg Bear: The Singularity is the Secular Apotheosis
Danko Nikolic: Practopoiesis Tells Us Machine Learning Isn’t Enough!
Sci-Fi Author Hannu Rajaniemi on his Quantum Thief Trilogy
Jerome C. Glenn: Science is an epistemology in the house of philosophy
Jonathan Mugan on The Curiosity Cycle
Arthur Traviss Corry: Give Bitcoin a Try!
Immortalist Bill Andrews: Aging is not going to cure itself!
Jeremy Rifkin on Zero Marginal Cost and the Decline of Capitalism
David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg on Making “The Immortalists”
Physicist Michio Kaku: Science is the Engine of Prosperity!
Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum is a Decentralized Consensus Platform
Stuart Armstrong: The future is going to be wonderful [If we don’t get whacked by the existential risks]
Steven Kotler: Flow is the doorway to more that most of us seek!
Ed Boyden: Let’s Bring Engineers into Studying the Brain
Peter Voss [Part 2]: There is nothing more important and exciting than building AGI
Andreas Antonopoulos: Bitcoin is not currency; it’s the internet of money!
Peter Voss on AI: Having more intelligence will be good for mankind!
Breaking News: ByoLogyc CEO Chet Getram on the BRX Virus Outbreak
Ted Chu on Transhumanism: The time has come to set a higher goal!
William Hertling: The Singularity is closer than it appears!
Peering into Our Future’s Black Hole: AI, Transhumanism and the End of Humanity