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Singularity Weblog — 194 episodes

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Steven Kotler on We Are As Gods: Godlike Power, Stone Age Minds

2

We Don’t Need More. We Need Better: Intelligence Scales. Wisdom Does Not.

3

Why I Cancelled ChatGPT and Switched to Claude, And Why You Should Too

4

Ada Palmer on Inventing the Renaissance: How Golden and Dark Ages Are Constructed and Why They Matter

5

Graham Priest on Dialetheism, True Contradictions, the Liar Paradox & Why Classical Logic Isn’t Enough

6

Breaking: Did Integral AI’s Jad Tarifi Just Announce AGI?

7

Jacob Ward on The Loop, AI, and a World Without Real Choices

8

Robot Souls & Junk Code: Dr. Eve Poole on Programming Humanity into AI

9

Petter Törnberg on Algorithmic Tyranny, the Rise of Digital Modernity and Seeing Like a Platform

10

The World’s a Circus | Nikola Danaylov Keynote at St. John’s Circus Fest 2025

11

Adam Becker on More Everything Forever and Big Tech’s Future Myths

12

Angus Fletcher: Why AI Will Never Replace Human Storythinking or Primal Intelligence

13

Donald J. Robertson on How to Think Like Socrates in the Age of AI

14

Dr. Jad Tarifi of Integral AI: “We Now Have All the Ingredients for AGI”

15

Jamelle Lindo on Emotional Intelligence in the Age of AI: Harness the Power of Emotion

16

Transhumanist Manifestos and Dilemmas: A Decade and a Half of Reflection

17

Get Your Why before AI: Technology is The How, Not the Why or What

18

From Mutual Dependence to Obsolescence: The Future of Labor in an AI-Driven Economy

19

Our Future, AI and Veganism: 6 Reasons Why I Went Vegan

20

It’s Ethics. Not Tech Ethics.

21

Modern Bard Dr. Martin Shaw: Be a Story-maker for Your Times

22

Kevin Kelly on Wisdom and Excellent Advice for Living

23

Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks

24

Nikolas Badminton on Facing Our Futures: Futurism is Activism

25

My NBF Contest Pitch: The Greatest Leadership Opportunity of the 21st Century

26

Massimo Pigliucci on Story, Virtue, Character and AI

27

Ukrainian Transhumanist Alex Padalka: A War Against Our Democratic Values

28

Ursula Eysin on Uncertainty and Future Scenarios

29

Zoltan Istvan on AI, Transhumanism, Politics and Ethics

30

David Wood on the Singularity Principles

31

Danko Nikolic and John Smart on AI, Practopoiesis, and Autopoiesis

32

Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell on Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History

33

David Loy on Zen, EcoDharma, AI and Story

34

Byron Reese on Stories, Dice and Rocks That Think

35

Cadell Last on Nietzsche, Transhumanism and Story

36

Joscha Bach on AI, Cosmology, Existence and the Bible

37

The Cassandra of Futurism Faith Popcorn: Futurism Doesn’t Come from the Past

38

Kendall Haven on Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story

39

Brian Boyd on the Origin of Stories

40

John Smart: Foresight is Your Hidden Superpower

41

Jonah Sachs on Winning the Story Wars: Storytelling is our neglected secret weapon

42

Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling: We’re storytelling animals

43

Roshi Jundo Cohen on Zen, AI, Transhumanism and Saving the World

44

Angus Fletcher on Wonderworks: Seek The Untold Story

45

SciFi Author PJ Manney on the New Mythos and (Con)Science

46

Lisa Cron on Story or Die: Question the Story

47

Chapter 12: The Politics Story

48

Chapter 11: The AI Story

49

Chapter 10: The Capitalism Story

50

Nikola Danaylov: Technology Reveals Who We Are, Not The Future

51

How to Be a Futurist [Without Predicting the Future]

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Chapter 9: The Technology Story

53

Chapter 8: The Science Story

54

Chapter 7: The Human Story

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Part II: Our Story

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Chapter 6: The Biology of Story

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Chapter 5: The Importance of Story

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Chapter 4: The Power of the Storyteller

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Chapter 3: The Power of Story

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Chapter 2: The Story of Story

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Chapter 1: The Definition of Story

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Part  I: Story

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ReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future

64

Gus Hosein on Privacy: We’ve been well-meaning but stupid

65

Francesca Ferrando on Philosophical Posthumanism

66

Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Change and the Ministry for the Future

67

Matthew Cole on Vegan Sociology, Ethics, Transhumanism and Technology

68

Thomas Homer-Dixon on Climate Change and Commanding Hope

69

Maria Farrell on Technology, Ethics, Stories and the Prodigal Techbro

70

Futurist.COM Founder Glen Hiemstra on 40 Years of Futurism: The Future is Something We Do

71

Laura Major and Julie Shah on What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots

72

Juan Enriquez on Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics

73

Chris Hables Gray on Pandemics, Cyborgs, Politics and Trump

74

Debora Spar on Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny

75

Melanie Mitchell on AI: Intelligence is a Complex Phenomenon

76

Jenny Kleeman on Sex Robots and Vegan Meat

77

Jacinta González on ICE, Palantir, Big Tech and Surveillance

78

Johan Steyn Interviews Nikola Danaylov on Artificial Intelligence

79

Renée Cummings on AI Ethics and Racism: Do what is right!

80

Ada Palmer on Viking Ethics, Laws of History, Partial Victories, and Terra Ignota

81

Aaron Benanav on Automation, Technological Unemployment and UBI

82

Futurist Karl Schroeder on Foresight and Strangemaking COVID19

83

Nikola Danaylov on Transhumanism, the Singularity, AI and Threats to Democracy

84

Prof. Ada Palmer on Pandemics, Progress, History, Teleology and the Singularity

85

Prof. Massimo Pigliucci: Accompany science and technology with a good dose of philosophy

86

Canadian SF Author Karl Schroeder: We’re living in a moment of creative possibility

87

The Happy Ways Podcast with Jon Nielsen: Nikola Danaylov on COVID-19

88

Former Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian: Never give up on privacy!

89

James W. Clement on the Switch: Longevity, Fasting, Protein Cycling and Keto

90

Nikola Danaylov at Dark Futures: NeoTechnocracy – The Future is Worse than You Think

91

Former IBM Watson Team Leader David Ferrucci on AI and Elemental Cognition

92

Katy Cook on the Psychology of Silicon Valley

93

Cathy O’Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Threatens Democracy

94

Technology is a Magnifying Mirror, Not a Crystal Ball

95

Gary Marcus on Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

96

Prof. Steve Fuller on Transhumanism: Ask yourself what is human?

97

Cory Doctorow on Walkaway: This will all be so great if we don’t screw it up

98

Ex-Google Design Ethicist Tristan Harris on Technology and Human Downgrading

99

Andreas Antonopoulos: Just because you don’t need bitcoin, doesn’t mean it’s not needed.

100

Sir Martin Rees on the Future: Prospects for Humanity

101

Media Theorist Douglas Rushkoff on Team Human

102

Dr. Joseph Mercola on Health and Longevity: Take Health into Your Own Hands

103

Joscha Bach: We need to understand the nature of AI to understand who we are

104

Dr. Michael Greger on How Not to Age

105

Stuart Russell on Artificial Intelligence: What if we succeed?

106

Roman Yampolskiy on Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security

107

“Oracle of Silicon Valley” Tim O’Reilly on WTF: Do Work That Matters

108

Physicist Max Tegmark on Life 3.0: What We Do Makes a Difference

109

Transhumanist Manifesto Inspires WIRED Article on Transhumanism

110

Philosopher Peter Singer on AI, Transhumanism and Ethics

111

Nikola Danaylov on the Future Grind Podcast

112

Jonathan Taplin on Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

113

Entrepreneurial Activist Joi Ito on Whiplash and the MIT Media Lab

114

Quid and Primer Founder Sean Gourley: If You Don’t Own the Algorithm, the Algorithm Owns You

115

Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II: Death is Wrong and Life is Right

116

Sci-Fi Great PJ Manney on (ID)Entity and Weaponizing Narrative: Everyone has a voice. Use it!

117

Futurist David Wood on Transcending Politics: A Better Politics is Beckoning Us Forward

118

Bill Nye the Science Guy: We Can Solve The World’s Problems

119

Jose Cordeiro on Longevity and Cryonics Summit: The World Will Be A Better Place Tomorrow

120

Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss: Keep on Asking Questions

121

“Conversations with the Future” Book Reading

122

Angel Investor Matthew Le Merle on How to “Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era”

123

Nikola and Amish on their April Fool’s Prank: Serious about Comedy and Comedy about the Serious

124

Dr. Amish Patel: The Universe is a Simulation and I Have the Proof

125

GoodAI CEO Marek Rosa on the General AI Challenge

126

Suzanne Gildert on Kindred AI: Non-Biological Sentiences are on the Horizon

127

Gerd Leonhard on Technology vs Humanity: The Future Belongs to Those Who Can Hear It Coming

128

Technology is NOT Enough!

129

The Age of Em: Robin Hanson on Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth

130

On Thanksgiving I’m thankful for you! What are you thankful for?

131

Deconstructing Socrates and the Future of Singularity 1on1: Nikola Danaylov Gets Interviewed by Trevor Haldenby

132

Kevin Kelly on The Inevitable: 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

133

Nikola Danaylov and John Rennie on TRT World News: Are we nearing the Singularity?

134

Marcin Jakubowski on Open Source Ecology: From Mud Hut to Singularity in 1 Day

135

Venture Capitalist Albert Wenger on Basic Income and World After Capital

136

Richard Jones on Against Transhumanism: the Delusion of Technological Transcendence

137

Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on AI and the Singularity

138

Spencer Wolf on his Mindbender Sci Fi Novel “After Mind”

139

Richard Stallman on Free Software: Freedom is Worth the Inconvenience

140

Robert J. Sawyer on Quantum Night: There is nothing inherently unknowable

141

Stephen E. Arnold on Search Engines and Intelligence Gathering

142

A Transhumanist Manifesto [Redux]

143

Hamlet’s Transhumanist Dilemma: Will Technology Replace Biology? [Redux]

144

Nick Gogerty on SolarCoin: Think Networks and Adaptation

145

Calum Chace on Surviving AI

146

Ex CIA Spook Robert Steele on Open Source Everything: Ethics is an Operating System

147

Michael Fossel on Aging and the Telomerase Revolution

148

BioViva CEO Liz Parrish on Becoming Gene Therapy Test Subject

149

The Emperor Has No Clothes: Socrates Deconstructs Singularity University

150

Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan on His Presidential Campaign

151

Unanimous AI CEO Dr. Louis Rosenberg on Human Swarming

152

DJ MacLennan on his Cryonics book “Frozen to Life”

153

Dr. Michael Fratkin on Life, Death and Palliative Care

154

Singularity University Global Ambassador Salim Ismail on Exponential Organizations

155

Roman Yampolskiy on Artificial Superintelligence

156

BioViva CEO Liz Parrish: Gene Therapy is NOT a Monstrous Science

157

Marshall Brain: We’re approaching humanity’s make or break period

158

Jack Andraka on his Breakthrough and Changing the World

159

Ramez Naam on Apex, Science, Politics and Ethics

160

Nikola Danaylov on Review the Future Podcast: What Do Experts Think About the Singularity?

161

Martin Ford: Technological Unemployment is an Issue We Need To Discuss

162

PJ Manney on her sci fi novel (R)Evolution

163

Miguel Nicolelis and Ronald Cicurel: The Singularity Isn’t Near and the Brain Can’t Be Simulated

164

Emily Drabant Conley: We are at the infancy of a genomic revolution

165

Seth Godin: Science Fiction is Really Important But Not Because It’s Right

166

Futurist David Wood on Transhumanism: Radical Change Lies Ahead

167

Rick Tumlinson on Space: We are here to go there. Now go do something about it!

168

Calum Chace on Pandora’s Brain: AI is Coming and It Could Be the Best or the Worst Thing

169

William Hertling: Expose Yourself to a Diversity of Inputs!

170

FBI Futurist Marc Goodman on Future Crimes

171

Dr. Michael Fossel: Compassion is the reason to reverse aging!

172

Cryonicist David Ettinger: Take Steps and Be Prepared!

173

Greg Bear, Ramez Naam and William Hertling on the Singularity

174

SciFi Master Greg Bear: The Singularity is the Secular Apotheosis

175

Danko Nikolic: Practopoiesis Tells Us Machine Learning Isn’t Enough!

176

Sci-Fi Author Hannu Rajaniemi on his Quantum Thief Trilogy

177

Jerome C. Glenn: Science is an epistemology in the house of philosophy

178

Jonathan Mugan on The Curiosity Cycle

179

Arthur Traviss Corry: Give Bitcoin a Try!

180

Immortalist Bill Andrews: Aging is not going to cure itself!

181

Jeremy Rifkin on Zero Marginal Cost and the Decline of Capitalism

182

David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg on Making “The Immortalists”

183

Physicist Michio Kaku: Science is the Engine of Prosperity!

184

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum is a Decentralized Consensus Platform

185

Stuart Armstrong: The future is going to be wonderful [If we don’t get whacked by the existential risks]

186

Steven Kotler: Flow is the doorway to more that most of us seek!

187

Ed Boyden: Let’s Bring Engineers into Studying the Brain

188

Peter Voss [Part 2]: There is nothing more important and exciting than building AGI

189

Andreas Antonopoulos: Bitcoin is not currency; it’s the internet of money!

190

Peter Voss on AI: Having more intelligence will be good for mankind!

191

Breaking News: ByoLogyc CEO Chet Getram on the BRX Virus Outbreak

192

Ted Chu on Transhumanism: The time has come to set a higher goal!

193

William Hertling: The Singularity is closer than it appears!

194

Peering into Our Future’s Black Hole: AI, Transhumanism and the End of Humanity