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Todd Interland of Interland Music Management joins the Freedom Pact podcast to talk about his career including managing James Blunt, working with Elton John and more. Todd's story of leaving America for the U.K to chase a career in the music business comes with so many great lessons in what it takes to go after what you really want in life.

Expect to hear some incredible stories including the moment Todd first heard James Blunt's demo tape, and why it made him immediately pull his car over to the side of the road, and many more.

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Neil Lawrence is the inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge. Neil has been working on machine learning models for over 20 years. Neil recently returned to academia after three years as Director of Machine Learning at Amazon. His main interest is the interaction of machine learning with the physical world.

In this conversation, Neil & I discuss the ideas that he shares in his latest book "The Atomic Human". Buy here: https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Human-What-Makes-Unique/dp/1541705122/ref=pd_ci_mcx_mh_mcx_views_0?pd_rd_w=DTWdc&content-id=amzn1.sym.8b590b55-908d-4829-9f90-4c8752768e8b%3Aamzn1.symc.40e6a10e-cbc4-4fa5-81e3-4435ff64d03b&pf_rd_p=8b590b55-908d-4829-9f90-4c8752768e8b&pf_rd_r=GTR62VTXY540GY7BHWZK&pd_rd_wg=9qErA&pd_rd_r=0f4320ea-6cee-4c57-aacc-6716a63eec50&pd_rd_i=1541705122

In this conversation, we discuss the following:
00:00 - Humans, Atomism & AI
01:58 - Public reactions to past technological breakthroughs
03:30 - Will AI really make people redundant?
06:56 - Sensationalising AI headlines
11:00 - Ray Kurzweil's claims
18:45 - Human intelligence vs AI intelligence
24:01 - AI's struggle with context
31:01 - The aspects of human intelligence that AI can't replicate
41:05 - Is Nick Bostrom right about AI?
47:18 - Will AI make students dumber?
58:22 - Connect with Neil

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Dave Asprey is regarded by many as the father of the bio-hacking movement. He is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, CEO of Upgrade Labs, founder of Danger Coffee, and host of The Human Upgrade podcast. Dave is an extremely successful entrepreneur and is noted as the first person to ever sell a product online.

In this good spirited conversation, Lewis and Dave challenge each other on topics related to longevity and bio hacking.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:27 Are You Afraid Of Death?
02:00 Belief In Reincarnation
05:20 Why Would You Want To Live So Long?
10:08 The Psyche Of Dave Asprey
12:30 Are Biohackers Just Bored Rich People?
14:40 What Proof Do You Have?
17:00 Is Longevity Only For The Rich?
19:10 Mainstream Academia
29:40 The Good & Bad People In Longevity?
33:10 Dr Steven Gundry Vs Doctor Mike
37:10 Andrew Huberman Hit-Piece
42:40 Bryan Johnson
46:50 Dave Changed His IQ?
51:30 Connect With Dave

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#longevity

Venki Ramakrishnan is a Nobel Prize winning scientist, Former President of the Royal Society, a structural biologist at the University of Cambridge and author.

Scientific and public interest into anti-aging has reached an all time high. With this has come a series of medical breakthroughs, as well as a detailed understanding of promising mechanisms that need to be targeted to slow down the aging process. However, there has also been a proliferation of misinformation, ineffective treatments and speculative claims, such as individuals suggesting that they may never die.

To sort the fact from the fiction, we invited Venki on to share his thoughts on the current state of the anti-aging movement.

00:00 - Why enter the conversation?
03:15 - Is the desire to live forever a modern phenomena?
05:45 - Where does the state of the anti-aging field lay?
07:30 - Should we tackle specific diseases or aging?
12:20 - Should aging be classified as a disease?
14:10 - Is aging inevitable?
15:10 - What is the maximum age that we could live to?
17:45 - Would we live forever if we eradicated all disease?
19:30 - Metformin, NAD boosters, NMN, Rapamycin - effective or not?
27:20 - Are blood transfusions effective?
30:10 - What actually causes aging?
33:01 - What happens when we die?
34:30 - Hormesis, Exercise, Diet & Sleep
42:10 - Venki's opinion on the anti-aging community and death
45:10 - Philosophical ideas on death
47:10 - Connect with Venki
49:50 - What makes a life worth living

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Why We Die: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-We-Die-S...
Profile: https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-...

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Daniel Sheehan is a Harvard College, Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School–trained Constitutional Litigation and Appellate Attorney. He has worked on some of the biggest cases of public interest including the Pentagon Papers, the Karen Silkwood Case, the Iran/contra case and many more.

In this conversation, Daniel speaks to Lewis about what the government are hiding from the public, why major info is set to come out on October 18th 2024, how the world would react to proof of extraterrestrial life and much more.

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https://www.danielpsheehan.com
https://newparadigminstitute.org

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Dr Iain McGilchrist is a former literature scholar at Oxford University before an interest in the mind and body led him to studying medicine, which paved the way for him to become a consultant Psychiatrist.

Dr McGilChrist is an associate of Green Templteton College in Oxford, a fellow of the royal college of Psychiatrists, a fellow of the royal society of arts and Iain has also conducted neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Iain is the author of the Master and his Emissary, a book that I was recommended by Robert Greene. Recently Iain has his latest book; ‘’The matter with things’’, which took him 12 years to write and his almost 600,000 words. The equivalent to 6 PhD Thesis’.

In this conversation today, Iain and I discuss the following:
00:00 - Hemispheric Differences
08:30 - The epidemic of mental illness
13:58 - Biohacking, Death & Finding Meaning
30:40 - Meditate On Your Mortality
40:45 - Don't Make Beautiful Things Explicit
46:00 - Know thyself or find flow?
53:30 - What To Do If you feel lost, hopeless and depressed
01:01:45 - Connect with Dr McGilchrist