FUTURATI PODCAST Thomas Frey

After a long career as a software engineer and data scientist, John became an independent researcher in artificial intelligence. Today he focuses on a diverse array of topics, such as the nature of abstraction and what the word "agency" even means.
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Dr. Gregory Salmieri is a senior scholar of philosophy at the Salem Center, where he holds the Brigham Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism. He is the co-editor of the books "A Companion to Ayn Rand" and "Foundations of a Free Society" and the author of numerous articles on philosophy, with a particular focus on Aristotle and Ayn Rand.

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Dr. Johannes Jaeger is a systems scientist, evolutionary biologist, educator, and natural philosopher with an extremely transdisciplinary track record. His investigations, first as the head of an empirical lab, later as the director of an institute for the philosophy of biology, and then as a freelance investigator, have always focused on organisms as complex adaptive systems. He is currently leading a research project at the Dept of Philosophy of the University of Vienna called “Pushing the Boundaries,” which concerns the differences between machines and organisms, and the importance of this difference for evolution. He is associate faculty at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna, and a scholar at the Ronin Institute.
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Dr. Anton Howes is a historian of invention. He is currently writing a book on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution, and is official historian for the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, as well as head of innovation research for The Entrepreneurs Network. He is a visiting fellow at King's College London, where he was previously lecturer in Economic History. He regularly shares his research on the history of invention at his online newsletter Age of Invention.
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After graduating with a degree in government from Harvard, Daniel Golliher founded a civics school called Maximum New York, anchored in New York City. The school’s goal is to accelerate kind, smart, ambitious people into city and state politics; provide them with an atypical level of knowledge about how government works; and keep them networked together.
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Dwarkesh Patel is a renowned podcaster who has hosted interviews with luminaries like Marc Andreesen, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Grant Sanderson. He's best known for the extraordinary effort he puts into researching the topics he speaks with his guests about, and for covering an exceptionally wide intellectual ground.

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