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Utility + Function — 53 episodes

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Chris Miller: Unpacking the Chip War

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Anwaar AlMahmeed: Solving the false scarcity problem

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Zoe Weinberg: On the future of our informational democracy

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Tom Irvine: Sensory Data and Operational Jazz

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Björn Lomborg: Climate Change, Public Spheres, and Technological Solutions

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Serge Faguet: Who are we, what have we accomplished, and where are we going?

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K. Eric Drexler: Envisioning Abundance Through Artificial Worlds

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S3-E2: Andre Watson: Personalized Medicine, Our Antidotal Future

9

Ranjit Singh: Seeing through the Database

10

S2. E18. George Kurtz - Thrill of Entrepreneurship

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E 17. Gaurab Chakrabarti - Understanding the White Space of the Unknown

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E 16. Henrik Fisker - Designing for Experience

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E 15. Gerald Posner - Investigating For Truth

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E14. Gustav Söderström - The Evolution of Music

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E13. Kate Darling - Robots: Sufficiently Like Us

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E12. TONY ARCABASCIO - From ALife to the AI-Life

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S2 - E11 - Sarah Williams - Reimagining Cities

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E 10. Shawanna Vaughn - Strength in Community

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E9. Alan Murray - Task Above Ego

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E8. Kweku Mandela - Considering Ourselves Human

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E7. Béla Fleck - The Rights Of The Noble Banjo

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6. Juan Martín Maldacena - Into the Juan Dimension: Black Holes, Quantum Gravity, and String Theory

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5. Peter Singer - Global Access To Knowledge

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4. Janna Levin - Periphery of Comprehensible

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3. Vijay Kumar - Coordination, Cooperation, Collaboration

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2. Lee Smolin - Discovering New Methods

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1. Caroline Buckee - Digging Through The Data

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26. James Gimzewski - Faith in Rarity

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25. Joscha Bach - Asking The Right Questions

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24. Scott Aaronson - Before and After The Machine

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23. Jill Neimark - Marveling at Nature’s Resilience

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22. Stephon Alexander - The Music of Spheres

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21. Gary Marcus - AI Builder, AI Skeptic

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20. Anima Anandkumar - The Immediate and Future Impact of How We Build AI

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19. Pamela McCorduck - History of Artificial Intelligence

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18. Joe Pistone, the Real Donnie Brasco

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17. Najee Dorsey - Building Together

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16. Stephen Wolfram - Inevitable, Beautiful Connections

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15. Tom X. Lee, MD - A Path Toward Healthcare For All

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14. Smriti Keshari - Energy Doesn’t Die

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13. Steve Hanke - And then, there is the 95% Rule

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12. Angeline Butler - Civil Rights Icon, Musical Force, Living Legend

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11. Jeff Holden - Inventions Lifeline

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10. Stephen Delaporte - To Bot or Not

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9. Dan Widmaier - Threads to Sustainability

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8. Alexis Gambis - Butterfly Blues

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7. Beth Comstock - That's My Van Gogh!

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6. Andrew Shearer - How to Grow a Company

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5. Michael Vassar - Does Michael Vassar Dream of Electric Sheep?

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4. Julie Orlando - I Didn't Think There Was Any Way I Couldn't Do it

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3. Antoinette Roberson - Mentorship by Creative Collaboration

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2. David Belt - They're Not All Evil, Right?

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1. John Putman - A Grander Vision