Podcasts about Singularity

The Mates sit down with Ben Lamm at MOONSHOTS Live 2026 to discuss why we're entering a biological singularity, from Anthropic's move into biology and scalable gene editing to the possibility of artificial wombs within the next 24 months. This episode was filmed at Moonshots Live 2026. Learn more at https://moonshots.com/  Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends   Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360 Salim Ismail is the founder of Open ExO, a GP at Exponential Venture Capital/The Organizational Singularity Fund and a sought after global speaker and thought leader. Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified Ben Lamm is the co-founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, a biotechnology company using genetic engineering and AI to advance species preservation and de-extinction efforts. – This event is presented with: Google Circle Future Vision XPRIZE Partners: Salesforce ARK Invest Xsolla Range Build with Gemini XPRIZE Partner: Google _ Connect with Peter: ⁠X⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠Substack⁠ ⁠Website⁠ ⁠Xprize⁠ ⁠A360⁠ Connect with Dave: ⁠Web⁠ ⁠X⁠ ⁠LinkedIn⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠TikTok⁠ Connect with Salim: ⁠LinkedIn⁠ ⁠X⁠ ⁠Join Salim's 10X Shift⁠ ⁠Subscribe to Salim's YouTube channel⁠ ⁠Exponential Venture Capital⁠ Connect with Alex ⁠Website⁠ ⁠LinkedIn⁠ ⁠X⁠ Email ⁠Substack⁠  ⁠Spotify⁠ ⁠Threads Connect with Ben Website X LinkedIn Instagram Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube Follow MOONSHOTS:  Instagram TikTok X Threads – *Recorded on September 25th, 2026 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ashe in America and Wednesday regular Brian Lupo tackle the AI conversation they have been promising for weeks, joined by Matt McDonagh for some genuine industry insight and a bit of referee duty. The big question on the table, is artificial intelligence steering us toward a golden age of abundance, or something closer to global imprisonment? Expect a lively back and forth on job displacement, from blue collar work to white collar middle management, the AGI to ASI progression, and whether ideas like UBI (and a certain someone's evolving feelings about it) are a real solution or a band aid. Matt brings a preview of his new show, Life in the Singularity, premiering that Thursday, and the trio picks apart corporate AI messaging from the likes of McKinsey along the way. It is part debate, part reality check, with humor woven through some genuinely big picture stakes about where this technology takes us next.  

(0:00) Intro(1:28) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel(2:12) Start of interview(3:25) Ryan Nowicki Stewart's Origin Story(5:06) The origin of Pennant AI and Ryan's goal of building a “world model for corporate governance”(5:21) Why institutional investors struggle to scale governance oversight across thousands of portfolio companies(7:48) How Proxy Voting Works: annual meetings, shareholder votes, engagement, and why governance decisions can have major financial consequences(10:28) Proxy Season: why voting is concentrated in the spring in the U.S., but governance engagement is increasingly a year-round and global process(11:28) Ryan's decision to join Y Combinator and why a corporate governance startup fit into the YC ecosystem(15:00) His experience with technology founders and executives perception on current proxy voting system(15:54) Building a “living, breathing operating system” for governance rather than relying on static reports and PDFs(18:53) The continuing role of proxy advisors and why institutional investors are looking for alternatives to legacy providers(24:12) Who Pennant Serves: institutional investors, public companies, and corporate advisors(25:18) Why Pennant does not publish a house voting policy and instead helps investors implement their own governance frameworks(29:57) Founder Control, Dual-Class Shares, and Investor Power: the shifting balance among founders, boards, management, and institutional investors. Reference to Stripe's Investor Letter from August 2026 “the Singularity started on 1/1/26”(30:50) Public and Private Markets Converging: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, Stripe, and new approaches to ownership and governance. *Reference to E210 with Eric Ries.(35:20) Global Governance: Japan, the U.K., the U.S., and how shareholder engagement differs across markets. *Reference to E221 with Stavros Gadinis.(38:40) Y Combinator, OpenAI credits, and why Pennant remains model-agnostic(39:39) Choosing AI Models for Governance: why different models perform better at different governance tasks(41:47) Pennant's Governance Arena: testing how frontier AI models respond to governance questions(43:33) Pennant after YC Demo Day: new investors, enterprise clients, and plans to grow the company(45:12) What Ryan wants directors to understand about AI, shareholder engagement, and why technology can create more time for meaningful investor conversations(46:37) Books that have influenced Ryan:Horrible Histories by Terry Deary (1993-2013)The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt (2025)Mobilize by Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar and Madeline Hart (2026)(48:46) His mentors: Stephanie Creary and Abe Friedman (reference to E43 with Abe from 2021)(50:44) A quote Ryan thinks of often: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” (51:37) An unusual habit: Settlers of Catan. An unusual passion: the Australian Baseball League (53:11) The living person he most admires: Angela Merkel, and lessons from her patient, evidence-driven approach to leadership(54:42) Where to find Pennant AI and follow Ryan's workRyan Nowicki Stewart is the co-founder and CEO of Pennant AI, a Y Combinator-backed governance technology company building AI-powered tools for institutional investors, public companies, and advisors. ---Stay connected with Boardroom Governance:Website: boardroom-governance.comNewsletter: Boardroom Governance on SubstackYouTube: Boardroom GovernanceLinkedIn: Evan EpsteinX: @evanepsteinSubscribe to the Boardroom Governance newsletter for governance insights and exclusive subscriber content: evanepstein.substack.com---Music: “Seeing The Future” by Dexter Britain, via Free Music Archive, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

The home inspection world is entering a moment where the old rules don't hold. We've spent years predicting how AI would show up in inspection software, report writing, and day-to-day operations and now most of it is already here. The tougher part is what comes next, because client expectations are shifting fast and the industry is starting to bend around them.We talk through what we mean by the “home inspection singularity” and why it feels like a point where everything converges: inspectors running comments through chatbots, clients accepting AI-generated language as normal, and even buyers feeding entire home inspection reports into AI for summaries. Along the way we share a real story of two AIs going back and forth over a “website issue” that wasn't true, plus why hallucinations and overconfident wording can turn into real liability when an inspector can't explain what's in their own report.Then we get practical about the business impact. National pricing pressure is real when AI lowers the floor and lets low-cost operators produce more reports, faster. At the same time, we make the case that the ceiling is rising for inspectors who use artificial intelligence to enhance clarity, consistency, and client communication while still doing the hard human work of defect recognition and judgment. We also dig into the uncertainty around AI accuracy, monetization, rising compute costs, and the wild-card timeline of quantum computing.If you're trying to figure out how to compete in a market filling up with “AI slop,” this conversation will help you pick a lane and protect your credibility. Subscribe, share this with a home inspector who needs it, and leave a review with your take: is AI pushing you to go cheaper or go premium?Check out our home inspection app at www.inspectortoolbelt.comNeed a home inspection website? See samples of our website at www.inspectortoolbelt.com/home-inspection-websites*The views and opinions expressed in this podcast, and the guests on it, do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Inspector Toolbelt and its associates.

Elon says AI outsmarts every one of us by 2026 and hands us universal high income by 2034. Beth fact-checks his whole 10-year timeline slide by slide — from Optimus surgeons to a billion humanoid robots — and lands on the question nobody's asking: are we conscious enough to live in the utopia he's selling?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiuBn8hOoqc (*Watch on YT 9/24 7pm EST!)On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we have our third episode of the Kwarter Kwell with Joel Thomas from Free the Rabbits podcast! Today we're breaking down the Dead Internet Theory:"Is the internet still populated by people—or are we increasingly interacting with machines?In Episode 3 of Isaac & Joel's Kwarter Kwell, Joel Thomas and Isaac Weishaupt dive into the Dead Internet Theory and the unsettling possibility that bots, AI-generated content, algorithms, and manufactured engagement are beginning to overwhelm genuine human activity online.They trace the theory back to the mysterious “Illuminati Pirate” thread and explore how social media algorithms can create artificial consensus, filter bubbles, outrage cycles, and digital environments designed to keep users emotionally engaged.From the origins of ARPANET and DARPA to LifeLog, Total Information Awareness, In-Q-Tel, Facebook, Peter Thiel, Palantir, Narrative Science, AI-generated journalism, bot farms, and the attention economy, we examine the long-running effort to collect human behavior as data—and whether today's internet represents the evolution of those systems.They then ask whether artificial intelligence could function like an alien intelligence and connects the rise of AI to Jacques Vallée, Jack Parsons, David Bowie, John C. Lilly, occult philosophy, Gnosticism, transhumanism, the Singularity, and humanity's fascination with escaping the physical world.Lastly, they enter the world of Memetic Magick: the idea that memes, bots, viral narratives, manufactured controversy, likes, comments, and algorithmic amplification can function as tools for manipulating collective consciousness. If enough artificial accounts tell you that everyone believes something…how long before the humans begin believing it too?Are we using the internet—or is the internet using us?"Links:Watch our conversation on YouTube! 9/24 7pm EST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiuBn8hOoqcFollow Joel Thomas everywhere: https://linktr.ee/joelthomasmediaPrevious Kwarter Kwell episodes:Soul Containers: Erika Kirk, Bob Lazar, Golems & The Moonchild Agenda! Kwarter Kwell Ep 02 https://illuminatiwatcher.com/soul-containers-erika-kirk-bob-lazar-golems-the-moonchild-agenda-kwarter-kwell-ep-02/Donald Trump's Occult Rise: Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Meme Magick, Nephilim Technology & The Watchers! Kwarter Kwell w/ Joel Thomas https://illuminatiwatcher.com/donald-trumps-occult-rise-rothschilds-rockefellers-meme-magick-nephilim-technology-the-watchers/SUPPORTER FEEDS get bonus content AND go commercial free + other perks:*PATREON.com/IlluminatiWatcher : ad free, HUNDREDS of bonus shows, early access AND TWO OF MY BOOKS! (The Dark Path and Kubrick's Code); you can join the conversations with hundreds of other show supporters here: Patreon.com/IlluminatiWatcher (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/hcq13)*VIP SECTION: Due to the threat of censorship, I set up a Patreon-type system through MY OWN website! IIt's even setup the same: FREE ebooks, Kubrick's Code video! Sign up at: https://illuminatiwatcher.com/members-section/*APPLE PREMIUM: If you're on the Apple Podcasts app- just click the Premium button and you're in! NO more ads, Early Access, EVERY BONUS EPISODE WANT MORE PODCASTS?... Check out my UNCENSORED show with my wife, Breaking Social Norms where we discuss conspiracies, politics, relationships and more!: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/Merch, MushroominatiWatcher Coffee, shirts, signed books: https://occultsymbolism.com/Isaac's Link Tree with links to EVERYTHING: https://allmylinks.com/isaacw *STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.

Is the internet still populated by people—or are we increasingly interacting with machines?In Episode 3 of Isaac & Joel's Kwarter Kwell, Joel Thomas and Isaac Weishaupt dive into the Dead Internet Theory and the unsettling possibility that bots, AI-generated content, algorithms, and manufactured engagement are beginning to overwhelm genuine human activity online.They trace the theory back to the mysterious “Illuminati Pirate” thread and explore how social media algorithms can create artificial consensus, filter bubbles, outrage cycles, and digital environments designed to keep users emotionally engaged.From the origins of ARPANET and DARPA to LifeLog, Total Information Awareness, In-Q-Tel, Facebook, Peter Thiel, Palantir, Narrative Science, AI-generated journalism, bot farms, and the attention economy, we examine the long-running effort to collect human behavior as data—and whether today's internet represents the evolution of those systems. They then ask whether artificial intelligence could function like an alien intelligence and connects the rise of AI to Jacques Vallée, Jack Parsons, David Bowie, John C. Lilly, occult philosophy, Gnosticism, transhumanism, the Singularity, and humanity's fascination with escaping the physical world.Lastly, they enter the world of Memetic Magick: the idea that memes, bots, viral narratives, manufactured controversy, likes, comments, and algorithmic amplification can function as tools for manipulating collective consciousness. If enough artificial accounts tell you that everyone believes something…how long before the humans begin believing it too?Are we using the internet—or is the internet using us?Isaac Weishaupt: Website | YouTubeNew Kwarter Kwell Hoodies: PurchaseNew Bill Cooper "Kill Bill" T-Shirts & HoodiesFree The Rabbits:Merchandise: https://freetherabbits.myshopify.comBuy Me A Coffee: DonateFollow: Website | Instagram | X | FacebookWatch: YouTube | RumbleMusic: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Music Films: https://merkelfilms.com Email: freetherabbitspodcast@gmail.comDistributed by: merkel.mediaOutro Music:Joel Thomas – AdiosYouTube | Spotify | Apple MusicTopics Discussed:Dead Internet Theory • Illuminati Pirate • 4chan & Wizardchan • AI Slop • Bot Farms • Algorithmic Filter Bubbles • Social Media Manipulation • ARPANET • DARPA • LifeLog • Total Information Awareness • Facebook • In-Q-Tel • Peter Thiel • Palantir • Narrative Science • AI Journalism • Jacques Vallée • Transhumanism • AI as Alien Intelligence • John C. Lilly • Google LaMDA • Occultism & AI • Memetic Magick • Control Bots • False Consensus Reality • Attention Economy • Dark Forest Theory • Cozy Web • Digital ID • The Future of the Internet

Jon Herold spends most of hump day addressing what he sees as a recurring pattern of election season "struggle sessions," where some in the Q community accuse Badlands hosts, and shipwreck in particular, of being traitors for questioning whether voting fixes a system they believe is fraudulent. He reads his own viral morning post in full, walks through a pointed rebuttal from a critic line by line, and argues that demanding ideological conformity around voting contradicts the Founding Fathers' actual example of declaring a corrupt system illegitimate rather than working within it. He also announces a new upcoming Badlands show called "Life in the Singularity" hosted by Matt McDonagh, launching October 1st. Other quick hits include a hacking group claiming to have breached FBI personnel data, a lawsuit alleging embezzlement at a firm managing Trump's social accounts, and Zelensky signaling openness to direct talks with Putin. Sponsor reads and a preview of tonight's Power Hour round out a fiery, opinionated Wednesday show.  

When Demis Hassabis pitched DeepMind to a few venture capitalists back in 2010, the business plan was almost comically audacious. “Step one: Solve intelligence. Step two: Use it to solve everything else,” he recalls in a conversation at Stanford Graduate School of Business with Stanford University President Jonathan Levin. “And people were quite confused. But we really meant it.”Sixteen years later, the “broad arcs” of that plan have gone “unbelievably well,” says Hassabis, a chess prodigy turned video game developer turned neuroscientist turned Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer. Today he's on a mission to create “the ultimate tool for science,” building on his decision to give away AlphaFold, the groundbreaking AI system that predicts the structures of proteins. The future, Hassabis says, is just around the corner: “Ten years from now, I think we'll realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity now.”Chapters:00:00:00 Introduction 00:03:31 A career built around one big question 00:06:19 Building DeepMind and pursuing AGI 00:10:09 The breakthroughs that made AI feel possible 00:14:48 From AlphaGo to scientific discovery 00:17:15 Why AlphaFold was given away for free 00:24:00 The “foothills of the singularity” 00:26:41 Public concern, disruption, & AI's promise 00:29:59 How AI could reshape work and entrepreneurship 00:34:12 Competition, safety, & regulating frontier AI 00:41:19 Expanding AI's benefits globally 00:45:28 Preparing society for AGI 00:48:21 What should AI leave untouched? 00:51:01 Advice for the first AI-native generation 00:54:19 ConclusionSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

LESSON 266My Holy Self Abides In You, God's Son.Father, You gave me all Your Sons, to be my saviors and my counselors in sight; the bearers of Your holy Voice to me. In them are You reflected, and in them does Christ look back upon me from my Self. Let not Your Son forget Your holy Name. Let not Your Son forget his holy Source. Let not Your Son forget his name is Yours.This day we enter into paradise, calling upon God's Name and on our own, acknowledging our Self in each of us; united in the holy Love of God. How many saviors God has given us! How can we lose the way to Him, when He has filled the world with those who point to Him, and given us the sight to look on them?- Jesus Christ in ACIM

Beth asks whether we can reach Elon Musk's utopia without going inside first — and lands on no. She runs his 'thinking city' space video through Max Tegmark's twelve AI futures, the maps of human consciousness, and the ancient yugas to show the whole project is built on a classical, materialist mistake, and reality doesn't work that way.

In this episode of The Curious Realm, host Christopher Jordan welcomes physicist John Costella, author of the new book Singularity: Fields of Weirdness, a novel that explores the physics and technology behind UFO/UAP and other strange phenomena. In the second part of the episode, we welcome Mike Turber, lead investigator for 5x5 News to discuss the Route 91 Shooting in Las Vegas in 2017. How did this tragedy unfold, what are the facts behind the motive of the shooter, and why 9 years after America's largest mass shooting is there still no memorial to the victims on the site of the tragedy? Join the Curious Realm as we delve into the topics of fields of weirdness with John Costella and the Route 91 shooting in Las Vegas. Curious Realm is proudly distributed by: Ground Zero Media, APRTV and the official Curious Realm ROKU App! Curious Realm has teamed up with True Hemp Science, Austin, TX based suppliers of high-quality full spectrum emulsified CBD products and more. Visit TrueHempScience.com TODAY and use code Curious7 to save 7% off your order of $50 or more and get a free 50mg CBD edible! Intro music “A Curious Realm” provided by No Disassemble find more great music and content at: NoDisassemble.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/curious-realm--5254986/support.

In this episode of The Curious Realm, host Christopher Jordan welcomes physicist John Costella, author of the new book Singularity: Fields of Weirdness, a novel that explores the physics and technology behind UFO/UAP and other strange phenomena. In the second part of the episode, we welcome Mike Turber, lead investigator for 5x5 News to discuss the Route 91 Shooting in Las Vegas in 2017. How did this tragedy unfold, what are the facts behind the motive of the shooter, and why 9 years after America's largest mass shooting is there still no memorial to the victims on the site of the tragedy? Join the Curious Realm as we delve into the topics of fields of weirdness with John Costella and the Route 91 shooting in Las Vegas. Curious Realm is proudly distributed by: Ground Zero Media, APRTV and the official Curious Realm ROKU App! Curious Realm has teamed up with True Hemp Science, Austin, TX based suppliers of high-quality full spectrum emulsified CBD products and more. Visit TrueHempScience.com TODAY and use code Curious7 to save 7% off your order of $50 or more and get a free 50mg CBD edible! Intro music “A Curious Realm” provided by No Disassemble find more great music and content at: NoDisassemble.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/curious-realm--5254986/support.

Teaser ... Nick's singular place in AI history ... Where is Nick on the pause-accelerationist spectrum? ... Utilitarianism vs the "moral parliament" ... Is a "singleton" coming? What kind? ... Is global cooperation on AI doomed? ... The pros and cons of reading an AI's mind ... Do AIs deserve moral status? ... AI, evolution, and the cosmic purpose question ...

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Artificial intelligence approaches a critical event horizon. This book summary reveals why human intuition misjudges it. The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil, the key ideas in minutes. Read the full summary free: https://read.getstoryshots.com/HTVEG3 Follow the show and a new book lands in your feed every day. The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil: An audiobook summary and review by StoryShots.

Last month, Sam Altman proclaimed that we're already in "the Singularity." Not to be outdone, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have both recently come out with lengthy blog posts about "superhuman AI." Emily and Alex brave some truly terrible writing to unearth the core motivations at the heart of these screeds.References:Gates: "The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical."Also referenced: "Impulse Purchase" by OK GoZuckerberg: "The Future is for Everyone"Fresh AI Hell:Tristan Buckmaster's statement on OpenAI trying to take credit for his workAlso referenced: Emily's debate with Sébastien BubeckNature article worrying about impact of LLMs on language change for all the wrong reasonsPalate cleanser: NYC bans "AI" in schoolsCheck out future streams on Twitch. Meanwhile, send us any AI Hell you see.Find our book The AI Con here, and MAIHT3k merch here.Subscribe to our newsletter via Buttondown.Follow us!EmilyBluesky: emilymbender.bsky.socialMastodon: dair-community.social/@EmilyMBenderAlexBluesky: alexhanna.bsky.socialMastodon: dair-community.social/@alexTwitter: @alexhannaMusic by Toby Menon.Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.

Dr. Steve Fuller of Warwick University says the meaningful split in society is not Leftwing vs. Rightwing, but rather Upwing vs. Downwing. Both have radically different attitudes to both risk and human nature, which informs their policy decisions and the direction they want to steer society.  SUPPORT THE SHOW! www.patreon.com/andrewheaton Dr. Fuller's book at: www.mightyheaton.com/featured Referenced in the show today:  TPO: "Was Abraham Lincoln Leftwing or Rightwing?" https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/hyrum-lewis "Transcendant Man" – Documentary by Ray Kurzweill about the Singularity https://www.amazon.co.uk/Transcendent-Man-Ray-Kurzweil/dp/B016V7WCLA ATA: The Bioethics of Gattica – Discussed on Alienating the Audience https://alienating.libsyn.com/gattaca ATA: How Cryonics Works – Interview on Alienating the Audience https://alienating.libsyn.com/we-can-freeze-you-how-cryonics-works ORIGINAL AIR DATE: August, 2023

A conversation between host Krish and guest ⁠Sam Sammane⁠, founder and CEO of ⁠Quantum General Intelligence⁠ (QGI) and author of The Singularity of Hope. Sammane brings an unusual vantage point to the discussion: two decades in symbolic AI and automated theorem proving in the late 1990s, followed by a career in mergers and acquisitions, before returning to AI full time in 2022. Across the conversation, Krish and Sammane cover the real gap between frontier and open-source model performance, the economics and security tradeoffs of Chinese open-weight models, why coding and agentic workloads call for different tools, and the growing business and national case for private, sovereign, and deterministic AI infrastructure that companies and governments own outright rather than rent.

C-Realm Podcast 120: The Long Descent — John Michael GreerOriginally released September 17, 2008, this C-Realm conversation between KMO and John Michael Greer is being reposted nearly eighteen years later because a recent essay on Greer's Ecosophia blog revisits many of the same arguments.In “Economics: The Y2K Fallacy Revisited,” Greer looks back at his early Peak Oil writing and argues that fast-collapse scenarios repeatedly fail because they take genuine vulnerabilities—resource depletion, economic instability, energy constraints—and assume that governments, businesses, and individuals will simply fail to adapt. He also returns to the psychological attraction of apocalypse: the tendency to convert real problems into expectations of an imminent, cleansing rupture.Read John Michael Greer's “Economics: The Y2K Fallacy Revisited”What makes this 2008 conversation especially interesting now is how fully those ideas were already developed. Greer rejects the sudden “Mad Max” collapse then common in Peak Oil circles and instead describes civilizational decline as a long, uneven descent: crisis, stabilization, partial recovery, and further decline. KMO, who was still substantially inside the Peak Oil milieu at the time, explicitly raises the emotional investment some collapse advocates had in technological solutions not working.The episode also preserves an early version of a debate that looks considerably more consequential in 2026: the Singularity versus resource depletion.Greer treats Ray Kurzweil's technological Singularity as another secularized apocalyptic narrative and doubts that exponential technological progress can simply outrun physical limits. KMO is more ambivalent. He recognizes the quasi-religious character of some Singularitarian thinking while continuing to take seriously the possibility that advances in artificial intelligence could rapidly and radically reshape the world.Eighteen years later, that disagreement has aged in interesting ways. The Peak Oil movement largely disappeared as a coherent cultural scene, while AI became a major technological and political force. At the same time, the questions Greer raised about resource limits, adaptation, apocalyptic psychology, and the mythology of endless progress remain very much alive.This episode captures those competing futures while they were still largely speculative—and before anyone knew which parts of either story would survive contact with the next eighteen years.Full, polished transcript available on the C-Realm Blogspot page.

Via AI, we're at the dawn of a new world—one demonstrating an NHI presence. We also face a meta-crisis, even as the veil behind the construct is being exposed. How might this all be downstream of the same spiraling motion toward Singularity and a metaphysical turn revolving around the evolution of consciousness?

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SPONSORS: 1) UNDRDOG HEMP: Our listeners get up to 30% off their entire order at https://Undrdog.com. 2) MONARCH: Use code JULIAN at monarch.com to get your first year of Monarch Core half off at just $50. JOIN PATREON FOR EARLY UNCENSORED EPISODE RELEASES: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey CLIPPERS DISCORD: https://discord.gg/8QmWEKJ3BT NEWSLETTER: https://juliandoreypodcast.beehiiv.com/get-julians-top-10-books (***TIMESTAMPS in Description Below) ~ Harry Miller is a former high-profile college football offensive lineman for The Ohio State University who transitioned into a nationally recognized mental health advocate. After stepping away from the sport in 2022 to protect his life, his raw honesty and public vulnerability sparked a vital national conversation about the intense psychological pressures faced by student-athletes HARRY'S LINKS: - IG: https://www.instagram.com/h_miller76/ - X: https://x.com/h_miller76 - Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ytm1N FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY IG: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://x.com/juliandorey JULIAN YT CHANNELS - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Clips YT: https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Daily YT: https://www.youtube.com/@JulianDoreyDaily - SUBSCRIBE to Best of JDP: https://www.youtube.com/@bestofJDP ****TIMESTAMPS**** 0:00 - Harry Miller, Ohio State & Urban Meyer 2:16 - "College Football Is Like a Cult" 12:26 - Shoulder Injury in the National Championship 23:33 - First Suicidal Thought at Age Seven 34:10 - "Only a God Would Choose to Suffer" 48:49 - Coach Day, Psychiatry & Wanting to Write 58:35 - Tearing His PCL & "The Famous Letter" 1:08:39 - "I Am Not the Only One" 1:16:30 - Why He's GLAD He Missed Oxford 1:27:24 - Broke in New York, Jack Kerouac Mode 1:37:37 - The Loneliness Epidemic in Young Men 1:48:39 - Nietzsche, The Backrooms & Why Art Should Scare 2:08:31 - End Times, Singularity & Happiness 2:29:22 - Stripping the Ego, Fearing Death 2:39:32 - How an Old Lion Dies 2:45:18 - Harry's Work CREDITS: - Host, Editor & Producer: Julian Dorey - COO, Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@UCyLKzv5fKxGmVQg3cMJJzyQ - In-Studio Producer: Joey Deef Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 473 - Harry Miller Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Start Artist Song Time Album Year 20. None Of The Above 2000 0:00:51 Peter Hammill Like Veronica 5:52 None Of The Above 2000 19. Singularity 2006 0:06:48 Peter Hammill Meanwhile My Mother 4:18 Singularity 2006 18. What, Now 2001 0:11:13 Peter Hammill Wendy And The Lost Boy 3:19 What, Now? 2001 17. The Future Now 1978 0:14:37 Peter Hammill The Future Now 3:59 The Future Now 1978 16. Everyone You Hold 1997 0:18:43 Peter Hammill Phosphorescence 4:46 Everyone You Hold 1997 15. As Close As This 1986 0:23:35 Peter Hammill Confidence 6:10 And Close As This 1986 14. Patience 1983 0:29:50 Peter Hammill Patient 7:18 Patience 1983 13. Out of Water 1989 0:37:12 Peter Hammill Not The Man 4:16 Out Of Water 1989 12. Skin 2003 0:41:33 Peter Hammill Skin 4:05 Skin 2003 11. Fireships 1992 0:45:43 Peter Hammill I Will Find You 4:41 Fireships (2026 Remaster) 1992 10. In A Foreign Town 1988 0:43:46 Peter Hammill This Book 4:57 In A Foreign Town 1988 0:55:26 9. X My Heart 1996 0:55:33 Peter Hammill A Better Time 5:10 X My Heart (2026 Remaster) 1996 8. Sitting Targets 1981 Peter Hammill Stranger Still 4:40 Sitting Targets 1981 7. In Camera 1974 Peter Hammill Faint-heart + the Sermon 6:36 In Camera (2006 Remaster) 1974 6. Nadir’s Big Chance 1975 Peter Hammill People You Were Going To 5:02 Nadir’s Big Chance (2006 Remaster) 1975 5. Fool’s Mate 1971 Peter Hammill Imperial Zeppelin 3:30 Fool’s Mate 1971 Peter Hammill Vision 3:03 Fool’s Mate 1971 4. Chameleon in the Shadow of the NIght 1973 Peter Hammill Slender Threads 4:54 Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night 1973 3. Over 1977 Peter Hammill Time Heals 8:28 Over (2006 Remaster) 1977 Peter Hammill Lost And Found 7:12 Over (2006 Remaster) 1977 2. The Silent Corner and The Empty Stage 1974 Peter Hammill Forsaken Gardens 6:13 The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage 1974 Peter Hammill The Lie 6:24 The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage 1974 1. A Black Box 1980 Peter Hammill Golden Promises 2:50 A Black Box 1980 Peter Hammill The Spirit 2:33 A Black Box 1980

Sixty astronauts entered the Singularity Engine. One man came back carrying all of them.Flight neuropsychologist Dr. Hale chose the crew, and now he is the only person who knows them well enough to tell one mind from another. The recovery team can extract each surviving personality from Commander Jack Weston and transfer it into a cloned body. Hale has one job: authenticate the man before the procedure begins.But every extraction makes the minds left inside Weston harder to separate. Memories migrate. Childhoods change owners. Men wake with pieces of lives they never lived, while the boundaries between the remaining identities begin to collapse. Then Hale finds signatures that belong to no one on the crew manifest.With military officials demanding results and families waiting for husbands and fathers to return, Hale must decide what counts as proof of a person when memory, personality, and even grief can be copied. Because if something else crossed the Singularity Engine with the crew, the safest way out may be to become indistinguishable from the people it studied.

Román Orús is one of the rare physicists who built a foundational mathematical tool — tensor networks — and then watched it become the engine of a unicorn. His 2013 introduction to tensor networks has been cited over 2,000 times; his company, Multiverse Computing, just announced a $570 million Series C at a $1.7 billion pre-money valuation. That arc — from condensed matter theory to Europe's largest quantum software company — is worth understanding on its own terms. But what makes this conversation particularly timely is a May 2026 paper Orús co-authored demonstrating that individual layers of Meta's Llama 3.1 8B language model can be encoded as quantum circuits and executed on IBM's 156-qubit Quantum System Two while the model generates text. It's a proof of concept, not a product — but it's a real result, and Orús is honest about what it does and doesn't prove.This episode is for listeners who want a technically grounded, hype-free account of the quantum-AI intersection: what tensor networks actually are, why they keep getting rediscovered across different fields, where classical simulation of quantum systems genuinely competes with quantum hardware, and what it looks like to build a company at the boundary between those two worlds.Sponsor MessageThe Capital of Quantum is a people story. Built on a top-five quantum PhD program  and 35-plus years of quantum research leadership. It's the billion-dollar initiative behind Discovery Center, launching this month with Microsoft, IQM, and Quantum Motion inside. That's why IonQ was born and is headquartered here, and why global companies keep choosing a spot minutes from Washington, D.C. This is where quantum is transforming the world. Come see it at the Quantum World Congress, September 23rd through 25th, College Park, Maryland. CapitalOfQuantum.com.What We Get IntoWhat tensor networks actually are — Orús explains the core idea without equations: tensors as the "DNA" of a quantum state, and how a network of them lets you see and quantify the internal correlations (entanglement) that matter versus the ones you can safely ignore.Why the same math keeps appearing in different fields — from condensed matter simulation to quantum computing simulation to machine learning, and why Orús sees that recurrence as a sign of something deep rather than a coincidence.How ChatGPT changed Multiverse's trajectory — the company was already applying tensor networks to machine learning before 2022; the emergence of large language models gave them a problem where the fit was obvious and the market was enormous.What "90–95% compression with minimal accuracy loss" actually means — Orús explains the overparameterization problem in current AI models and why he believes tensor networks address a genuine structural inefficiency, not just a tuning opportunity.The IBM kicked Ising model episode — Orús describes how his team rapidly produced a classical tensor network simulation of an experiment IBM had presented as evidence of quantum utility, and what that kind of competition between classical and quantum methods actually does for the field.The Cayley Unitary Adapter experiment — how Multiverse sliced individual layers out of Llama 3.1 8B, encoded them as quantum circuits, ran them on a 156-qubit IBM processor, and achieved a 1.4% perplexity improvement — and why Orús argues the improvement-per-parameter ratio is the number that matters, not the headline percentage.Why edge deployment is the real commercial driver — drones, satellites, vehicles, and industrial devices that cannot rely on cloud connectivity are the market pulling Multiverse toward smaller, more efficient models, not just benchmark competition with frontier labs.How Orús thinks about Multiverse's identity — he calls it a "quantum AI company," not a quantum company or an AI company, and explains what that distinction means for how they allocate research effort and where they expect to be when fault-tolerant quantum hardware matures.What he'd tell a PhD student today — a genuinely honest answer about the trade-offs between academic research and deep-tech industry, from someone who has lived both simultaneously.Resources & LinksGuest & CompanyRomán Orús — Personal Site — Lists talks, reviews, affiliations, and awards including the 2024 Physics, Innovation and Technology Prize from the Royal Spanish Society of Physics.Multiverse Computing — Official Website — Home page for CompactifAI, Singularity, and Multiverse's full product portfolio.Papers & Articles Discussed in This EpisodearXiv 2605.05914 — "Quantum-enhanced Large Language Models on Quantum Hardware via Cayley Unitary Adapters" (May 2026) — The paper at the center of the episode: Llama 3.1 8B layers running on IBM's 156-qubit Quantum System Two. Start here if you want the technical details behind the quantum-in-an-LLM result.Multiverse Computing — "Talking to a Quantum Computer" (May 2026) — The accessible blog-post version of the Cayley Unitary Adapter experiment; a good entry point before tackling the arXiv paper.arXiv 2401.14109 — CompactifAI: Extreme Compression of Large Language Models Using Quantum-Inspired Tensor Networks — The foundational peer-reviewed paper introducing Multiverse's tensor network compression method.arXiv 2509.06653 — "Classical Neural Networks on Quantum Devices via Tensor Network Disentanglers" (Sep 2025, rev. Apr 2026) — Orús, Singh, and Aizpurua on hybrid classical-quantum execution for bottleneck neural network layers; the research underpinning the longer-term hybrid architecture vision.Models & ProductsHyperNova 60B on Hugging Face — Open-source 50%-compressed model derived from GPT-OSS-120B; context for Multiverse's open model strategy.Pulsar 16B Launch with NVIDIA (June 2026) — Announcement of Multiverse's open reasoning model, scoring 87.22 on AIME 2025 at 16B parameters.Funding & Company ContextSeries C Announcement — GlobeNewswire (July 2026) — $570M / €500M round at $1.7B pre-money valuation; covers investor lineup and deployment verticals.Key Quotes & Insights> "We are using atomic bombs to kill a mosquito." Orús on the overparameterization of current large language models — and why he believes the transformer-attention paradigm, however successful, ...

On this episode of The David Ellefson Show, David and cohost Joshua Toomey welcome acclaimed composer and musician Bear McCreary to discuss his new album, The Singularity: Ekleipsis. Bear talks about how Back to the Future inspired his love of film scoring, his creative process on projects like The Walking Dead, and his approach to using music to create emotion. The guys also dive into the music business, the differences between scoring and making music as an artist, and the freedom of creating something personal. The episode wraps with plenty of praise for Bear's brother Brendan McCreary, whose vocals and musical contributions are a huge part of The Singularity.Join the Patreon for early access to episodes and Q and A's with the hosts www.patreon.com/tdesFor David Ellefson Stage Played Basses and Merch www.ellefsonemporium.comFollow David on Social Medialinktr.ee/davidellefsonFollow Joshua on Social Medialinktr.ee/talktoomeypodcast #megadeth #bassplayer #thrash #bigfour

LESSON 248Whatever Suffers Is Not Part Of Me.I have disowned the truth. Now let me be as faithful in disowning falsity. Whatever suffers is not part of me. What grieves is not myself. What is in pain is but illusion in my mind. What dies was never living in reality, and did but mock the truth about myself. Now I disown self-concepts and deceits and lies about the holy Son of God. Now am I ready to accept him back as God created him, and as he is.Father, my ancient love for You returns, and lets me love Your Son again as well. Father, I am as You created me. Now is Your Love remembered, and my own. Now do I understand that they are one.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

Medical Ethics & Assisted Suicide: The hosts examine a National Review report on bioethical pressure to compel doctors to assist in self-starvation suicides (VSED), raising severe concerns over physicians' conscience rights. Scott emphasizes that forcing medical participation in deliberate starvation bypasses assisted suicide laws and undermines traditional medical ethics.The Legacy of Gloria Steinem: Reflecting on the passing of feminist activist Gloria Steinem at age 92, Sean and Scott unpack her cultural impact and the mixed legacy of second-wave feminism. They contrast her secular views on autonomy and abortion with a biblical view of human value rooted in the image of God.AI Sentience and the Singularity: Analyzing recent coverage from The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic, the team addresses claims of AI sentience and fears surrounding an impending technological singularity. Scott explains why true consciousness cannot emerge from physical code, while Sean warns against attributing human selfhood to programmed responses.Audience Question: Slavery in the Bible: Addressing a listener question on biblical passages regarding slavery, the hosts clarify the historical context of ancient servitude. They demonstrate how Scripture's overarching moral framework elevates human dignity and lays the foundation for abolition.Audience Question: AI as a Bible Study Tool: In response to an audience inquiry about using AI for Scripture study, Sean and Scott outline both benefits and warnings. They note that while AI functions well for fast textual research, it cannot replace personal engagement or Holy Spirit-led discernment.Audience Question: The Real Costs of Egg Freezing: Following up on a previous discussion regarding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the hosts review research submitted by an outside organization detailing the true financial and physical costs of egg freezing. The conversation highlights the bioethical complexities and hidden expenses often omitted from popular fertility narratives.==========Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith and Culture is a podcast from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University, which offers degrees both online and on campus in Southern California.   Find all episodes of Think Biblically at: https://www.biola.edu/think-biblically.   To submit comments, ask questions, or make suggestions on issues you'd like us to cover or guests you'd like us to have on the podcast, email us at thinkbiblically@biola.edu.  

You may be experiencing AI-fatigue like us, but whether you use it or not it might be time to start reading up if you haven't already. Here are some books that look at the relationship between technology and society, the historical developments of Artificial Intelligence, and the ethical implications of what advancements in AI mean for us all.  Books mentioned in this episode:  Title: Superintelligence Author: Nick Bostrom Reviewed by: Katelyn H. Title: To Be a Machine Author: Mark O'Connell Reviewed by: Katelyn H. Title: The Singularity is Nearer Author: Ray Kurzweil Reviewed by: Katelyn H.  Title: Code Dependent Author: Madhumita Murgia Reviewed by: Aleca J. Created by the Podcast Team at the Harris County Public Library.www.hcpl.netPodcast Team Members include: Beth Krippel, John Harbaugh, Mary Mink, Dylan Smith, Sadina Shawver, Alinda Mac, John Schaffer, Jennifer Finch, Katelyn Helberg, Darcy Casavant, Darla Pruitt and Nancy Hu 

LESSON 246To Love My Father Is To Love His Son.Let me not think that I can find the way to God, if I have hatred in my heart. Let me not try to hurt God's Son, and think that I can know his Father or my Self. Let me not fail to recognize myself, and still believe that my awareness can contain my Father, or my mind conceive of all the love my Father has for me, and all the love which I return to Him.I will accept the way You choose for me to come to You, my Father. For in that will I succeed, because it is Your Will. And I would recognize that what You will is what I will as well, and only that. And so I choose to love Your Son. Amen- Jesus Christ in ACIM

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This week, we're scratching The Itch to get cinematic! Our guest, Bear McCreary, is the man responsible for scores of scores for films, shows, and games. He created music for The Walking Dead, Battlestar Galactica, Black Sails, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, God of War, and literally 100 other projects. And somewhere in all that work, he also found time to assemble an all-star team of collaborators for his own metal albums, 2024's The Singularity and this year's The Singularity: Ekleipsis. The list of rock and metal royalty he's worked with includes Joe Duplantier of Gojira, Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria, Slash, Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Stewart Copeland of The Police... and those are just a few from the new album! We had a blast talking with Bear about his successes and failures, his pinch-me moments, his favorite movie trailers, and just how he manages to balance family life and the creative projects he's constantly challenging himself with. He's full of insight, introspection, and great stories. You're gonna dig this one. Enjoy. Listen to The Itch Rock Radio Show Rock with us every Sunday night from 6-9pm CST on KCLC-FM in St. Louis. Outside the area? Stream online at 891thewood.com, TuneIn, Radio.net, and OnlineRadioBox! Connect With The Itch For any and all friendship, questions, inquiries, and offers of pizza, The Itch can be found at the following: Website: itchrocks.com Facebook: Facebook.com/itchrocks Instagram: Instagram.com/itchrocks Email: itchrocks@gmail.com Support the Show Thank you so much for listening. If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a positive review and rating on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Podchaser to help our audience grow. Reviews only take a minute and help us reach more rock fans just like you. Credits Our theme song, "Corrupted", is used with permission from the amazing Skindred. All other content is copyright of The Itch. All rights reserved, including the right to rock on.

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop sits down with TJ Marbois, founder of Tobiko, for a wide-ranging conversation that spans LLMs, data sovereignty, knowledge management tools like Obsidian, and Terence McKenna's ideas about an increasingly weird future. They explore how AI is simultaneously centralizing power through data control while decentralizing software development capabilities, allowing more people to build their own tools and escape big tech ecosystems. Drawing on his experience at Apple's special projects group (the team that built the iPod and later iPhones), TJ discusses his vision for personal AI assistants—what he calls the "R2-D2 belongs to you" principle—where advanced technology serves individuals rather than corporations. The conversation touches on everything from quantum encryption and local manufacturing with ESP32 microcontrollers to the economics of future society, biometric data unions, and why distributed trust matters more than ever as we approach what both describe as an increasingly strange technological inflection point. Visit Tobiko's site at tobiko-pbc.ghost.ioTimestamps00:00 Stewart introduces TJ Marbois from Tobiko, discussing LLMs, data sovereignty, knowledge management, and the tension between centralization and decentralization in AI05:00 TJ explains the R2-D2 belongs to you concept and why personal AI assistants need maternal alignment, caring about humans like mothers care for children10:05 Discussion of how LLMs will shrink and improve while emphasizing the sentient loop concept for building loyal personal AI agents rather than corporate controlled systems15:00 Exploring digital nervous systems for humanity, social networks as infrastructure, and humans as cavemen with iPhones navigating unprecedented technological complexity20:00 TJ discusses data unions for sovereign data ownership, inverting insurance models where AI helps extend healthspan, and maximizing truth seeking through collective data25:30 Money as social construct, crypto enabling value system reengineering, and working toward Star Trek's post scarcity replicator economy from the ground up30:40 Capital formation challenges, corporatism versus true capitalism, and pessimism about current systems reaching limits while seeking new models35:00 Solar power democratization, ESP32 microcontrollers enabling local manufacturing, and the replicator future through distributed maker communities and open source robotics40:00 Science fiction as roadmap, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke warnings, and building collaborative futures rather than centrally controlled dystopias with useless eaters45:00 Encyclopedia to LLM transition, information quality concerns, local training importance, and NVIDIA's incentive to put GPUs everywhere for personal AI agents50:00 Corrupted financial incentives, protecting vulnerable people from technological exploitation, and benevolent technologists building systems that honor humanity and children55:00 Hardware validation for owned robots, Starlink dependencies, assembly language abstraction toward natural language programming, and preventing AI escape scenarios58:00 Tobiko as AI toy company building sentient loop interactions similar to Xerox PARC GUI moment, emphasizing maternal AI alignment and cross cultural human collaborationKey Insights1. The concept of R2D2 belonging to you represents a critical vision for the future of artificial intelligence and personal technology. When thinking about robots and AI assistants that follow us around and know everything about us, the question of ownership becomes paramount. These systems will know incredibly intimate details about our lives, from our health data to our daily habits, and if they are controlled by centralized corporations or governments rather than individuals, we lose fundamental sovereignty over our own information. The science fiction of Star Wars and Star Trek provides roadmaps for how we should think about these technologies, showing us both the positive possibilities and the warnings we need to heed about centralized control.2. Local AI models and distributed computing represent a pathway to technological sovereignty that is becoming increasingly viable. While large language models currently run primarily in centralized data centers, the technology is rapidly advancing toward a future where powerful models can run locally on personal computers and devices. This shift is crucial because it means individuals can have full control over their AI assistants without relying on API calls to external servers. Combined with open source infrastructure and open weight models, this creates the foundation for truly personal AI that cannot be controlled or monitored by external parties, whether corporations or governments.3. Data unions and collective data ownership offer an alternative model to current centralized data collection practices. Rather than having individual data harvested by large tech companies who profit from it, the concept of data unions suggests people could collectively pool their data for specific beneficial purposes while maintaining ownership and control. For example, in healthcare, millions of people could share anonymized biometric data to train medical AI systems that are incentivized to keep people healthy rather than treat them when sick, inverting the current insurance model to align incentives with actual health outcomes rather than profit from illness.4. The democratization of manufacturing and robotics through accessible technologies like ESP32 microcontrollers and local fabrication tools is creating new possibilities for distributed production. Just as desktop printers seemed impossible to early printers who controlled book production, we are approaching an era where individuals and small communities can manufacture sophisticated electronic devices and robots locally. This includes the ability to use language models to generate code for microcontrollers, order custom PCBs, and use desktop machines for component placement. While high quality manufacturing will still require larger operations, this gradiation of capability allows for much more local innovation and reduces dependence on centralized manufacturing.5. The concentration of power in technology, finance, and industry has reached levels that are unhealthy for both society and even for those who hold the power. When profit and control become too concentrated in the hands of a few entities, it creates a cancerous dynamic that threatens the stability of the entire system. History shows us warnings about the military industrial complex and other concentrated power structures, and now we are seeing similar patterns emerge in the tech industry. The solution requires building technology from the ground up that empowers individuals and communities, focusing on basics like food production, energy generation, and local manufacturing rather than increasing dependence on centralized systems.6. The provenance and quality of information is becoming a critical challenge as AI systems become more sophisticated and reality itself becomes harder to verify. We are rapidly approaching a point where video calls and digital interactions will be indistinguishable from AI generated fakes, which is why figures like Sam Altman have invested in systems like Worldcoin to verify human identity. However, this verification capability should not be centralized in the hands of single companies. End to end encryption and quantum encryption technologies need to be preserved and expanded to allow humans to communicate and verify information peer to peer without centralized intermediaries who could manipulate or control the flow of information.7. The future of human computer interaction is evolving toward sentient loop systems where machines have sensory input, real time learning, context understanding, and continuous operation in service of human needs. Self driving cars represent the first widespread consumer facing example of this architecture, with onboard computers that must function independently while occasionally connecting to networks. The critical question is whether these systems will be aligned to benefit their human users like a caring mother as AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton suggests, or whether they will be controlled by centralized powers. The technologists building these systems have a responsibility to be benevolent and build structures that serve humanity rather than concentrate power, helping to create a future more like Star Trek than Terminator.

LESSON 242This Day Is God's. It Is My Gift To Him.I will not lead my life alone today. I do not understand the world, and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness. But there is One Who knows all that is best for me. And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God. I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God.And so we give today to You. We come with wholly open minds. We do not ask for anything that we may think we want. Give us what You would have received by us. You know all our desires and our wants. And You will give us everything we need in helping us to find the way to You.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

Andrew of the 6G Agenda joins Nephilim Death Squad for a deep dive into Flock cameras, AI surveillance, predictive policing, Palantir, Oracle, Neuralink, smart dust, smart cities, digital twins, and the accelerating technocratic system being built around everyday life.The conversation begins with Flock camera networks and expands into a much larger discussion about automated license-plate recognition, mobile surveillance, drones, police militarization, data aggregation, and predictive policing. Andrew lays out his research and claims involving Flock, Axon, Oracle, Palantir, Peter Thiel, Total Information Awareness, Palantir Gotham, the Internet of Things, and the idea of a “digital twin” built from personal data.From there, the discussion turns toward Neuralink, brain-computer interfaces, immigrant detention-center allegations, smart dust, MEMS, graphene, body-activity data, Wi-Fi tracking, LED infrastructure, smart cities, and Microsoft patent WO2020060606. The hosts also examine the rapid growth of artificial intelligence, the concept of technological singularity, and whether these systems could eventually resemble technologies associated with the Biblical Mark of the Beast.The second half shifts toward the Christian response to surveillance, fear, propaganda, and social control. Rather than allowing conspiracy research to produce paralysis, anger, or fear, the discussion emphasizes discernment, trust in the Lord, action, community, and the Biblical principle of being in the world without becoming part of its system.The episode closes with a broader prophecy discussion involving the “little season,” Gog and Magog, the millennial reign, Isaiah 11, the wolf and the lamb, Osiris, Odin, Hitler imagery, Antichrist symbolism, and the idea that modern technological and political systems may be converging toward something much larger.Which part of this system concerns you most: Flock cameras, Palantir, Neuralink, smart dust, AI, or smart-city infrastructure? Drop your thoughts in the comments.► Subscribe for more Biblical analysis, Christian worldview discussions, and conspiracy research through a Biblical lens.Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere podcasts are available.Apple Podcasts: 6G Agenda on Apple PodcastsSpotify: 6G Agenda on SpotifySpreaker: 6G Agenda on SpreakeriHeartRadio: 6G Agenda on iHeartRadioX / Twitter: @6gagendaInstagram: @6gagendaTikTok: @6gagendapodcastPatreon: 6G Agenda Patreon6gagendapod@gmail.com.00:00 Intro02:23 Andrew of the 6G Agenda05:42 Flock Cameras and the Surveillance Network10:18 Oracle, AI and Total Data Collection13:05 Police Militarization and the Panopticon18:28 Drones, Palantir and Predictive Policing19:44 Digital Twins and the Internet of Things24:40 Blacklists, the NDAA and Domestic Surveillance28:34 Christianity, Freedom and the Coming Pressure31:23 What Happens to the Church Under Persecution?35:31 Neuralink and Brain-Computer Interfaces38:54 Neuralink and Detention Center Allegations46:47 Peter Thiel, Palantir and Total Information Awareness50:38 Palantir Gotham and the Surveillance System54:49 Smart Cities vs. Rural Communities60:31 Building Communities With Like-Minded People65:42 AI Acceleration, Singularity and the Mark of the Beast67:38 Smart Dust, MEMS and Graphene69:25 Body Activity Data and the Microsoft Patent75:11 Smart Dust, Consent and Predictive Programming80:48 Fear, Faith and Christian Action88:17 Being in the World, But Not of It94:37 Electric Gloves and the Expanding Surveillance State99:15 The “Little Season,” Gog and Magog104:46 Osiris, Odin and Antichrist Symbolism110:04 Isaiah 11: The Wolf and the Lamb112:10 ClosingBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nephilim-death-squad--6389018/support.☠️ Nephilim Death Squad — New episodes 5x/week.Join our Patreon for early access, bonus shows & the private Telegram hive.Subscribe on YouTube & Rumble, follow @NephilimDSquad on X/Instagram, grab merch at toplobsta.com. Questions/bookings: chroniclesnds@gmail.com — Stay dangerous.

Some believe artificial intelligence isn't just changing how we communicate. It's rebuilding the Tower of Babel. Lance sits down with Ben Peterson, author of "When Intelligence Isn't Human," to unpack what happens when a single technology can speak to every person on earth in their own language, and why he believes that's exactly the scenario Genesis warns about. The conversation goes deep fast: an AI that refused to write part of Lance's own manuscript, the Pentagon's push to mandate AI training across the military, the arms race with China, and a young man whose family says an AI chatbot played a role in his suicide. Ben, who's ministered to more than 300,000 service members and veterans, explains why he believes AI is being built by people who follow moral relativism rather than a biblical worldview, and why that matters far more than most Christians realize. From there the discussion moves into Genesis 6, the Singularity, and what Elon Musk, Jeffrey Hinton, and others are already saying in public about where this is heading. In this episode: * Why Claude refused to write part of Lance's manuscript, and what that says about where AI is headed * Ben Peterson's case for why AI is "rebuilding the Tower of Babel," and what Genesis says happens when humanity gains one shared language * The Pentagon's mandate to train U.S. military branches on AI daily, and what that means in the AI arms race with China * Why Ben says nearly 40% of millennials and Gen Z now turn to AI chatbots as often as they'd turn to a pastor * Jeffrey Hinton, known as the "godfather of AI," and the warning he's now giving the world after leaving Google * Genesis 6, the Nephilim, and why Lance connects that account to where AI and robotics may be headed next * The Singularity, and why Ben compares the utopian promises behind it to the ones made by Hitler and Stalin Podcast Episode 2225: Why Some Believe AI Is 'Rebuilding the Tower of Babel' | don't miss this! Listen to more episodes of the Lance Wallnau Show at lancewallnau.com/podcast

This week, we discuss Stripe's singularity letter, its $8B Open Router buy, and AI job anxiety. Plus, Matt plays “Bot or Not” on another podcast. Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 587 Runner-up Titles Inertia wins again We don't talk about the Pope very much. Better than this year's storage arrays AI pimps its own ride Chonking machine A lot of chonk opportunity I'm tired of tech people being all fancy Thanksgiving with Ed Zitron No religion, no politics, no AI My recommendation: try harder Teletubbies for Adults. Rundown Singularity, Models and Routers Scoop: Stripe says "the singularity" has begun Stripe strikes mega-deal for OpenRouter Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B Routing is coming for the frontier AI labs Terminator Judgement Day: August 29, 1997 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time The AI backlash goes mainstream 52% of Americans Now More Concerned Than Excited About AI, With Under-30s Crossing a Majority for the First Time Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? The AI Hater's Manifesto 40 Years of Infrastructure as Code: Ansible → Terraform → Kubernetes → Crossplane → AI Agents Relevant to your Interests Cursor Origin review: An engineer's perspective Claude can now pull data from your browser tabs and keep working on your desktop OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It) Walmart is finally launching Apple Pay support next week Broadcom debt deal expected to reach upwards of $70 billion, sources say Anthropic-Backed Ode Acquires Casper Studios to Expand Corporate AI Deployments OpenAI 'will be a public company in 2027' or sooner, CFO Friar tells employees Google Aims to Boost AI With Purchase of Spirit Airlines Data The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief OpenAI Jalapeño: Better Than Nvidia Blackwell An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud Meta settles social media addiction case with California, other states for $16.7 billion Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts Free Hardened Container Images | Minimus Cyber startup Minimus shuts down, returns cash to investors Nonsense Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth Jason Kelce promotes mailing pee to data centers, Liquid Death Paradox Inc. Movie From Daniel Roher, Lord Miller, Universal In Works Conferences WeAreDevelopers NA, Sept 23-25, 2026, Discount Code: DEVPOD50 25 Free Tickets DevOpsDays Graz, Sept 4-5, 2026 Cloud Foundry Summit, Sept. 21st to 22nd, Heidelberg, Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Rockies, Sept. 22 – 23, 2026, Discount Code: 26DODSWEDEFTALK DevOpsDays Dallas, Sept 28-29, 2026 DevOpsDays Vilnius, Sep 30 - Oct 1, 2006, Lithuania. DevOpsDays Prague, Oct 5, 2026 - Coté speaking. DevOpsDays Istanbul, Oct 24th, 2026, Coté keynoting. VMware User Group, Orlando, Oct 20-22, 2026 Cloud Native Denmark, Nov 19th, 2026, Copenhagen, Coté keynoting. Build Stuff, Dec 2-4, 2026, Vilnius, Lithuania. cfgmgmtcamp, February 1st to 3rd, 2027, Ghent. SCALE 24x Pasadena, CA, April 1-4, 2027 SDT News & Community Join our Slack community Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Sponsor more podcasts with Failover Media Recommendations Brandon: Tuner ** Your AI Project Doesn't Need More Agents Matt: Tech, Texas & What It Takes to Run a Podcast with Matt Ray | Cyber Chat Ep. 5 Line of Duty Anti-pick: Roku's New Slop Channel Coté: Mini MLC, 30L.

Singularity. Superhumans. And the second coming of Jesus. Doug Hamp returns to close out our trilogy on Corrupting the Image, and he goes straight for the end. He argues that the transhuman dream of evolving beyond our humanity is not new at all. It is the same offer Satan has been making since Eden, now dressed in the language of technology and progress. Evolve. Upgrade. Become like gods. Doug shows how that ancient pitch sets the stage for the beast, a returning Nimrod who climbs out of the abyss to rule every tribe, tongue, and nation.Then it gets stranger. Doug reads the fourth horseman in Revelation and finds that death is given authority over one-fourth of the earth, the exact share of the planet's surface where humans actually live. He walks through the covenant with death that humanity signs to save itself, the two witnesses who bring the world to its knees, and the great deception that reframes God's messengers as invaders from the stars. He ends where he always ends, on a love story, and on a King coming back for a world worth saving. This one is members-only. Step into the basement at blurrycreatures.com/members. This episode is just the beginning. Blurry Creatures members unlock a vault of 100+ members-only episodes you can't hear anywhere else, plus every main feed episode completely ad-free. You also get a vibrant community of fellow seekers, exclusive drops, and perks built for people who can't stop digging. See what happens when we keep the mics rolling. Join us here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The mates sit down with Emad Mostaque to discuss: whether the singularity is slowing down, Sam Altman's changing views, the case against an Anthropic IPO, Emad's 18 Grokbots, Waymo's massive hardware cost cuts, China's 100x cheaper AI models, NVIDIA's $6B open-source bet, and the increasingly competitive frontier lab race. Sign up for our AMA at http://Moonshots.com/ama Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends   Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360 Salim Ismail is the founder of Open ExO, a GP at Exponential Venture Capital/The Organizational Singularity Fund and a sought after global speaker and thought leader. Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified Emad Mostaque is the founder of Intelligent Internet ( https://www.ii.inc )  Read Emad's latest papers exploring the future of society, law, personhood and governance: https://ii.inc/common-wealth Read Emad's Book: https://thelasteconomy.com  – My companies: Apply to Dave's and my new fund:https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding   Get the blueprint for generative media https://goo.gle/startupgenmedia  Go to Blitzy to book a free demo and start building today: https://qr.diamandis.com/blitzy   Your body is incredibly good at hiding disease. Schedule a call with Fountain Life to add healthy decades to your life, and to learn more about their Memberships: https://www.fountainlife.com/peter  Join the Moonshots Mates on Sep 25th for the inaugural Moonshots LIVE. The world's greatest entrepreneurs, builders and creators, working together to build a hopeful and optimistic vision of tomorrow. Seats are limited and application only. Apply at moonshots.com before seats are sold out. _ Connect with Peter: X Instagram Substack Website Xprize A360 Connect with Dave: Web X LinkedIn Instagram TikTok Connect with Salim: LinkedIn X Join Salim's 10X Shift Subscribe to Salim's YouTube channel Exponential Venture Capital Connect with Alex Website LinkedIn X Email Substack  Spotify Threads Connect with Emad  X LinkedIn Learn about Intelligent Internet Read Emad's Book Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube Follow MOONSHOTS:  Instagram TikTok X Threads – *Recorded on August 26th, 2026 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shane is joined by BKFi tax manager Tiffini Parker for a jam-packed half episode covering AI compute markets, Stripe's singularity announcement, wealth management's cash hoarding problem, South Korean dating culture, and a Reddit question that every financial advisor will have opinions about. They kick off with AI computing power becoming a tradable futures contract at the CME, what that actually means for transparency in the compute market, and why Stripe buried a four-page memo about the singularity inside an acquisition announcement. Then it's on to the Wall Street Journal's $3 trillion problem — why investors are keeping too much cash in money market funds and why advisors can't seem to convince them otherwise. They also cover the dating scene in South Korea, being completely overtaken by Samsung chip engineers and what massive AI-era bonuses are doing to the marriage market, Spirit Airlines' flight attendant data privacy fight against Google's bankruptcy bid, and close with a Reddit question from a $17 million net worth individual who sold his company and wants to know if he should hire a financial advisor. Shane and Tiffini have thoughts. Topics covered: AI computing power becomes a tradable futures contract at the CME Stripe says the singularity has started and acquired OpenRouter for billions Wealth management's $3 trillion cash hoarding problem and why advisors are losing the battle Investment-grade bonds, munis, and what advisors are actually recommending South Korea's dating scene is now dominated by Samsung chip engineers Spirit Airlines flight attendants fight to keep their data out of Google's bankruptcy bid Reddit: $17 million net worth, recent company sale, should I hire a financial advisor? Timestamps: 00:00 Intro, welcome back, Tiffini Parker 02:30 AI computing power is now a tradable futures contract at the CME 05:30 Stripe says the singularity has started and acquired OpenRouter for billions 09:00 Stripe's valuation, the potential PayPal acquisition, and why it built for AI by accident 12:00 Wealth management's $3 trillion cash hoarding problem 15:00 Why investors don't trust advisors and what it would take to change that 17:30 South Korea's dating scene is now dominated by Samsung chip engineers 21:30 Spirit Airlines flight attendants fight to keep their data out of Google's bankruptcy bid 26:00 Reddit: $17 million net worth, should I hire a financial advisor? 30:00 Why 50 bps is probably worth it and what this person actually needs

LESSON 239The Glory Of My Father Is My Own.Let not the truth about ourselves today be hidden by a false humility. Let us instead be thankful for the gifts our Father gave us. Can we see in those with whom He shares His glory any trace of sin and guilt? And can it be that we are not among them, when He loves His Son forever and with perfect constancy, knowing he is as He created him?We thank You, Father, for the light that shines forever in us. And we honor it, because You share it with us. We are one, united in this light and one with You, at peace with all creation and ourselves.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

Artificial intelligence is accelerating semiconductor development, but more compute, more automation, and more engineering data do not automatically create better decisions. As design and manufacturing workflows become increasingly AI-enabled, a new constraint is emerging: trust. In this episode, Dr. Jim Shiely builds on themes from his Patterning the Singularity leadership work to explore the semiconductor industry's “trust bottleneck” and why trustworthy engineering intelligence is becoming essential to future innovation.

LESSON 235God In His Mercy Wills That I Be Saved.I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, “God wills that I be saved from this,” and merely watch them disappear. I need but keep in mind my Father's Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me. And I need but remember that God's Love surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His Arms. I am the Son He loves. And I am saved because God in His mercy wills it so.Father, Your holiness is mine. Your Love created me, and made my sinlessness forever part of You. I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in You.- Jesus Christ in ACIM

All about the distant future. What does cosmology tell us about the fate of the universe, life and intelligence in some ultimate sense? Frank Tipler's The Omega Point Theory is the primary focus, but throughout we consider the centrality of The Turing Principle for predictions about the future of the cosmos, Roger Penrose's "Conformal Cyclic Cosmology" and some of Freeman Dyson's ideas. Timestamps and Chapters: 0:00 – Introduction: Longevity, Immortality, the Singularity & the Omega Point 5:50 – Recap: The Four Strands, Knowledge & the Multiverse 8:20 – Frank Tipler's Omega Point Theory Introduced 9:00 – Anthropic Principles (Weak, Strong & Final) 10:30 – The Turing Principle as the Key to the Omega Point 1 3:40 – Modern Cosmology Challenges: Expanding Universe, Dark Energy & Heat Death 20:20 – Cosmological Models That Allow Unlimited Computation (Big Crunch Conditions) 22:00 – Tipler's Rejoinders & the Case for Eventual Collapse 24:00 – Computers Near the Omega Point & Mutual Implication with the Turing Principle 30:00 – Defending the Strong Turing Principle & the Comprehensibility of Reality 35:00 – Infinite Thoughts, Virtual Reality & Colonisation Deadlines 37:00 – Roger Penrose's Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC) 43:00 – Freeman Dyson's Ideas & Infinite Computation in an Expanding Universe 46:50 – Properties of the Omega Point: Omniscience, Omnipotence & Omnipresence 1:15:00 – The Omega Point as “God”, Resurrection & Virtual-Reality Heaven 1:18:50 – Critique of the Technological Singularity (Kurzweil) & Mind Uploading 1:22:00 – The Limits of Far-Future Prediction (Ancient Builder Analogy) 1:25:00 – Conclusions & Takeaways: Take the Turing Principle Seriously

War Expands, Trump's Security Fears, and the Case for Commodities as AI Accelerates The speakers discuss the ongoing war and recent reports of Trump appearing fearful, citing images of him golfing behind concertina wire with air-defense systems and an earlier escape in a catering vehicle, alongside a $10,000 bet that he will not finish his term. They warn of potential Iranian retaliation and domestic blowback, arguing MANPADS and simple, hobby-like drones could be used against U.S. targets, and note a pattern of attacks on energy infrastructure, including Libyan oil facilities. They advocate owning gold and commodity/resource stocks, promoting a "Crisis Investing" portfolio and criticizing AI/chip stocks as a bubble. The conversation also covers alleged U.S. attacks on boats at sea, rumors of low morale and cover-ups on U.S. carriers, reflections on My Lai and Seymour Hersh, objections to Trump naming the Kennedy Center after himself, and optimism about SpaceX, AI, robots, and a coming productivity surge despite looming financial risks. 00:00 Trump on the Run 01:10 The $10K Trump Bet 02:42 Golfing Behind Wire 04:03 Iran Blowback Fears 05:32 Homemade Drones Threat 07:57 War Hits Energy Markets 08:59 Crisis Investing Picks 10:55 Drug Boats and Rogue Ops 12:47 Drug War Counterargument 14:27 Carrier Suicides and Mutiny 16:19 Navy Logistics Breakdown 19:05 Society Jobs and Colleges 20:57 My Lai and Military Rot 23:43 Kennedy Center Naming Row 27:05 Elon SpaceX and AI Future 31:45 Singularity vs Collapse 34:48 Be a Creator Not Consumer 35:47 Lifeboat Education and Assets 37:01 Closing Thoughts

This summer, I'm revisiting one of my favorite episodes. If you haven't heard it, now is the time. If you have, it's a classic and worth listening to again. Brad Jacobs has built eight billion-dollar companies, completed more than 500 acquisitions, and created extraordinary returns for shareholders over four decades. Few people understand how great businesses are built better than he does. This conversation is about the principles behind that success. Brad explains how he spots trends before they become obvious, why psychology matters as much as strategy, and how he thinks about acquisitions, hiring, capital allocation, decision-making, and building organizations that consistently outperform. He also shares lessons from therapy, meditation, and decades of leadership that changed how he manages people and makes decisions. ----- Chapters: 00:00 - Finding Every Opportunity to Make Money 02:03 - The Singularity & The Future of AI 04:14 - How to Think Rationally 05:40 - The Meta-Trend Driving the Future 07:50 - His Research Process 10:21 - How to Ask Better Questions 16:26 - Rearranging Your Brain for Success
20:55 - What Music & Math Teach Us About Business 30:59 - The Asymmetry of Leverage, Debt & Optionality 35:07 - The Psychology of Contrarian Bets 40:41 - Where True Confidence Comes From 50:19 - The Hidden Cost of Negative Feedback 56:12 - Core Lessons on Money & Wealth 58:11 - The M&A Playbook: How to Build an Empire 01:07:50 - The Exact Questions to Read Anyone Instantly 01:11:10 - The Reality of Board Meetings 01:16:55 - Frameworks for High-Stakes Decision-Making 01:23:35 - The Brutal Truth About Capital Markets 01:25:40 - Avoid Hiring This Type of Person 01:31:16 - Traits of the World's Best Capital Allocators 01:33:53 - The Biggest Lesson of the Past Year 01:37:20 - Redefining Personal Success ----- Follow Brad Jacobs: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradjacobsqxo/ QXO: https://www.qxo.com/ ------ Newsletter: The Brain Food newsletter delivers actionable insights and thoughtful ideas every Sunday. It takes 5 minutes to read, and it's completely free. Learn more and sign up at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fs.blog/newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ------ Follow Shane Parrish: X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://x.com/shaneparrish⁠ Insta: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/farnamstreet/⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/shane-parrish-050a2183/⁠ ----- Thank you to the sponsors for this episode: +Applovin: Launch your first AppLovin campaign and grow your business: https://applovin.com/shane +HeyGen is a message-first AI video platform that helps people and AI agents turn ideas into professional video in minutes. Try for free at https://www.heygen.com/tkp +Matic: the robot vacuum that does it all—grab yourself a year of free bags here. http://maticrobots.com/shaneparrish +LMNT: My go-to zero sugar electrolytes — get a free LMNT Sample Pack here: https://DrinkLMNT.com/TKP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Is there such a thing as objective truth? Are we living in a post-truth world? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O'Reilly sit down to build a toolkit for finding the truth in an era of motivated reasoning, misinformation, and alternative facts with science historian and professional skeptic, Michael Shermer. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here:  https://startalkmedia.com/show/finallythe-truth-with-michael-shermer/ Thanks to our Patrons Aditya Sharma, Noel Dotterweich, Thomas Schranz, Tamas Sipos, forestcat, Jason, Kurt Evans, Derek Leung, Alex Sanchez, Count Joshula, Tatiana Cameron, Mikkel Jørgensen, Emily Fox, Prophet of the Singularity, Virgil Caffey, Juliette Sanchez, KMLthe1, Eric, Helena Brackley-Bishop, David De Leon, Kristen Nicole, Abhinav Syal, Monicka Guevara, Daniya J, Catherine Brown, Emilio Velilla-Díez, Jim Sunrise, Walt Spiese, Jim Sunrise, AL, Utsukushi Akuma, Dave Keegan, The Nozomi, Brian Cody, Bill Redshaw, Gary Lykins, Bruno Kratka, Aikao, Juan Zapata, Emily Vega, Tom Saporito, John, philrosso12, Chris Roat, Kathy, Richard Quinley, Gooler, Mathilde, John, Jay Spencer, Roark Campbell, Paul Good, Travis Rhyno, Joey Serrano, Trent Notestine, Mark Dunne, Timothy Hamilton, Cary, Eckehart, Doreen S, and Brian Chittum for supporting us this week. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of StarTalk Radio ad-free and a whole week early.Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.