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What are the implications of recent developments in code- and image-generating AI? What is the difference between intelligence and consciousness? What impact do these developments have on the open-source community? How will this affect developer jobs?
 
Test Driven Development in the Age of AI: https://youtu.be/kBIr46RNxVI
DALL.E: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/GLIDE: https://syncedreview.com/2021/12/24/deepmind-podracer-tpu-based-rl-frameworks-deliver-exceptional-performance-at-low-cost-173/AlphaFold: https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/AlphaCode: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/article/Competitive-programming-with-AlphaCodeGitHub Co-Pilot: https://copilot.github.com/GPT-3: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165Helen Keller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_KellerMichio Kaku: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_KakuDouglas Hofstadter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_HofstadterTerrence McKenna on Intuition: https://www.post-wave.com/21-terence-mckennaJest: https://github.com/facebook/jestEnzyme: https://enzymejs.github.io/enzyme/Web Vitals: https://web.dev/vitals/Embrace Extend Extinguish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish 
Outro Music by Trevor Villwock

What does it mean to exist? We explore Plato’s theory of ideas and his Republic.
 
Plato Republic: https://youtu.be/rVxSoiHtovM
Sophie’s World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_World
Stephen Wolfram heat death of the universe: https://youtu.be/kuFRyOwkYuE
Universal wavefunction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_wavefunction#:~:text=The%20universal%20wave%20function%20is,times%20a%20deterministic%20wave%20equation.%22
Bohr’s atom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr
Alan Watts quote: https://youtu.be/-VzLBkmeW8E
Steven Pinker – The Better Angels of Our Nature: https://stevenpinker.com/publications/better-angels-our-nature
Iain McGilchrist episode: https://www.post-wave.com/49-divided-brain

Who were the Stoics, what did they believe about the world, and how can we apply it to life today?

update: oh no! I accidentally bungled the conversion and only uploaded the last 2 minutes of this episode. Here's the full episode! (should be fixed now).
What is the self? Am I a different person than you are? How can we engender compassion in ourselves? Trevor & Eric discuss enlightenment as talked about by Ram Dass – philosopher, psychologist, luminary.
 
Ram Dass lecture: https://youtu.be/kjh1BAG5Pfs
Dzogchen Buddhism - https://www.shambhala.com/snowlion_articles/the-practice-of-dzogchen/
Timothy Leary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary
Terrence McKenna: https://www.post-wave.com/21-terence-mckenna
Ted Achocoso:  https://www.post-wave.com/47-analysis-dr-ted-achacoso
Alan Watts: https://www.post-wave.com/episode-10-alan-watts-this-is-it
Peterson Dillahunty debate: https://www.post-wave.com/55-religion-and-morality
Incompleteness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems
 
Outro Music by Trevor Villwock

How should we feel about billionaires pursuing space exploration when there's so much wrong on earth?
 
References:
 
Billionaire tax rates - https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
 
Culture series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series
 
Lex Fridman's conversation with Neal Stephenson - https://youtu.be/xAfdSak2fs8
 
Sabine Hossenfelder on terraforming Mars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb0UnogKQeo
 
Spinlaunch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAczd3mt3X0
 
Largest comet ever discovered - https://www.space.com/newfound-comet-biggest-recorded-history
 
World's richest people 2021 - https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/
 
Elon Musk helping fight world hunger - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/11/1052719247/how-6-billion-from-elon-musk-could-feed-millions-on-the-brink-of-famine
Percentage of U.S. who are independents - https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

We are joined by special guest Walker T. Roman to continue our discussion of abstraction, this time in the context of art and music.
References:
Walker T. Roman: https://www.walkertroman.com/
Lascaux cave paintings: https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/lascaux/Isometric perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_projectionVermeer optics: https://arranqhenderson.com/2017/09/19/did-vermeer-use-optics-in-his-art/Danielle: http://www.daniellemulcahy.com/Origins of Kindergarten: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/little-history-american-kindergartens-180963263/#:~:text=Kindergarten%20itself%20is%20a%20German,in%201837%20in%20Blankenburg%2C%20Germany.Jackson Pollock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_PollockClement Greenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_GreenbergIsorhythm: https://www.britannica.com/art/isorhythm#:~:text=isorhythm%2C%20in%20music%2C%20the%20organizing,around%201900%20by%20the%20GermanSerialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialism
Trevor's music: https://soundcloud.com/trevor-villwockEric's music: https://soundcloud.com/faero