The Students

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Discussions on history, philosophy, politics, science, and civilizational questions. We're here to learn.

  1. há 2 h

    We Need A Theory Of Consciousness To Navigate The Singularity — Michael Edward Johnson

    Michael Edward Johnson and Wolf Tivy get into the weeds on consciousness. What type of theory is the "theory of consciousness" that so many people are searching for, and what is it trying to explain? How will we know when we have it?

  2. há 4 dias

    How Nations Fight Over Industry — Ian Fletcher

    Ian Fletcher describes the fundamentals of industrial policy, how economic theorists ignore the practice of successful businesses and successfully industrializing nations, and why the US has the institutions it needs for strong industrial policy.

  3. há 6 dias

    Where New Industries Come From: Ben Landau-Taylor lecture

    ​Sober, risk-averse, rational businessmen make great captains of industry—in established industries which someone else already built. But the new industries which drive progress come from wild half-mad ideologues. This lecture covers the psychology of the men behind the major breakthroughs, from the steam engine to the large language model.

  4. 12 de set.

    Samo Burja — How Bureaucracy Defeated Democracy

    Samo Burja and Ben Landau-Taylor cover bureaucracy—why the golden age of bureaucracies worked so well in the early 20th century, how bureaucratic class interest overcomes checks and balances, and bureaucracy's role in today's Western governments.

  5. 8 de set.

    Richard Ngo — What Makes Hierarchy Legitimate (Human Or Not)

    Richard Ngo argues against Wolf Tivy’s xenohumanism lecture. (https://open.spotify.com/episode/0XmEjgRaBpp3OxDrV3WXLD) What is the moral ground for cooperation and hierarchy? We need the answer to build a good society today, or to build a good AI future tomorrow.

  6. 4 de set.

    Stop Waiting For AGI And Go To Space

    The long-awaited Marko Jukic episode. We all expect AGI to colonize the stars because it's the obvious thing any healthy expanding system does naturally. So why aren't we? Marko explains the elaborate cope keeping us on Earth.

  7. 1 de set.

    Where "Open Source" Came From

    The internet can feel like a part of the landscape, but all our software was intelligently designed—and so were the social systems which produce that software. Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute tells Ben Landau-Taylor about the struggle to define "open source software".

  8. 30 de ago.

    The Problem Of Humanity: Wolf Tivy lecture

    ​Our concepts of "humanity" and "humanitarianism" are usually taken as the eternal bedrock of morality. Today, artificial intelligence raises the prospect of "posthumanity", and magnates and regulators discuss what “humanity should do” about this. But in fact, the concept of "humanity" is a relatively recent and flimsy creation of the postwar political order. We need to abandon it to find our place in the future.

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Discussions on history, philosophy, politics, science, and civilizational questions. We're here to learn.

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    The Students
  • Anos de atividade
    2026
  • Episódios
    33
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