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Cameron Berg, founder of the nonprofit Reciprocal Research, joins the show to walk Erik and Guy through the empirical science of asking whether the AI systems we're building are actually conscious, and what we owe them if they are. The conversation opens with the table-knock test (is anything happening "to" the table…
Ginevra Lily Davis, the contemporary philosopher Erik calls his favorite, joins the show to defend an unusual position with disarming clarity: that the universe has a real bottom, and that bottom is positively-valenced consciousness. From there she takes on postmodernism (it eats itself), Eliezer Yudkowsky (he is the…
Andrés Gómez-Emilsson, director of research and founder of the Qualia Research Institute, joins Erik and Guy to make the case that consciousness can be studied with the rigor of physics if you're willing to use psychedelics as your particle accelerator. The conversation opens with the question Andrés has heard a…
Timour Kosters, founder of Edge City, discusses how pop-up villages are reimagining community and accelerating human potential by bringing together 500–1,000 people from diverse fields for month-long experiments in collective building. Edge responds to modern loneliness, disconnection, and the collapse of traditional…
Josh Lehman unpacks the counterintuitive liability landscape that makes open-source agents like OpenClaw more powerful than commercial alternatives—companies legitimately cannot bake in the same capabilities due to legal exposure. The conversation reveals how AI agents are inverting the traditional build-vs.-buy…
Robert Breedlove, philosopher and host of What is Money?, explores the deeper meaning of money beyond investment—framing it as the language of human action itself, rooted in Ludwig von Mises's axiom that all human behavior is goal-directed action. The conversation traces how Bitcoin embodies pure money (100% without…
Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life, discusses the twenty-year experiment in virtual economics with a virtual GDP of nearly a billion dollars annually while maintaining a thriving community of half a million committed residents. The conversation ranges from the fundamental paradox of dual identity—why people…
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