The Rhys Show cover image

The Rhys Show

Latest episodes

undefined
Mar 28, 2019 • 33min

#8 Kate Darling, MIT: A Systemic View on Regulation and Gender Roles in Tech

Kate Darling, a Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab and an Affiliate at the Harvard Berkman Center. We chat about the balances in regulating technology, the negative systemic impacts of our current gender roles, and how being a mother has helped Kate empathize more! https://twitter.com/grok_ https://twitter.com/mitDCI https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
undefined
Mar 12, 2019 • 46min

#7 Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, The Daily Embodiment of Ethical Principles

Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, the Founder and CEO of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the MIT, and Director of the Ethics Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. We chat about how we can embody ethical principles, meditation, and ethics as an optimization framework. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzin_Priyadarshi https://twitter.com/mitDCI https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
undefined
Mar 5, 2019 • 32min

#6 Glen Weyl: Funding Civil Society with Liberal Radicalism

Glen Weyl, the author of the book, Radical Markets and the founder of RadicalXChange (conference in Detroit March 22–24!). We chat about social innovation, funding civil society with Liberal Radicalism, and the powerful cultural aspects of the blockchain ecosystem. https://twitter.com/glenweyl https://twitter.com/radxchange/ https://twitter.com/mitdci https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
undefined
Feb 7, 2019 • 54min

#5 Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: Should Billionaires Even Exist?

Anand Giridharadas, the author of the book, "Winners Take All". We chat about whether billionaires should even exist, localism vs. globalism, taxes vs. charity, and much more. https://twitter.com/AnandWrites https://twitter.com/mitdci https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
undefined
Jan 24, 2019 • 35min

#4 Joi Ito: Applying a Systems Paradigm to Cryptocurrency

Joi Ito, the Director of the MIT Media Lab (among many things). We chat about the central question of his PhD thesis, "How can we understand and effectively intervene in interconnected complex adaptive systems?" and then apply that to cryptocurrency. https://twitter.com/mitdci https://twitter.com/joi https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark
undefined
Jan 14, 2019 • 56min

#3 Renee DiResta: Russia Disinformation Campaign and Our Weaponized Information Ecosystem

Renee DiResta, Director of Research at cybersecurity company New Knowledge. (Among many other things.) We chat about her recent report on Russia's disinformation campaign and our weaponized information ecosystem more broadly.
undefined
Jan 7, 2019 • 37min

Nadia Eghbal, Protocol Labs: Why Give Away Money and How to Fund Digital Infrastructure

Nadia Eghbal, a researcher at Protocol Labs. We chat about her grant program to give people money on the internet and her current mindset towards funding digital infrastructure.
undefined
Dec 20, 2018 • 1h 6min

#1 Tadge Dryja, Digital Currency Initiative: uTreeXO and Bootstrapping Bitcoin Upgrades

Tadge Dryja, a research scientist at DCI who co-invented the Lightning Network. We chat about his current research (uTreeXO, a dynamic accumulator for Bitcoin state) and discuss non-fork ways to bootstrap upgrades to a network (a bridge node for uTreeXO).
undefined
Oct 24, 2018 • 47min

#52 Arthur Brock, Holochain: Verbing the World Through an Agent-Centric Blockchain

Arthur Brock, the founder and acting CEO of Holochain. We chat about the shift from nouns to verbs and how Holochain's agent-centric architecture works. Thanks to KeepKey for sponsoring the show! www.keepkey.com/
undefined
27 snips
Oct 3, 2018 • 1h 8min

#51 Daniel Schmachtenberger: Meta Existential Risk

Daniel Schmachtenberger, the co-founder of Neurohacker Collective. We chat about meta existential risk. Thanks to KeepKey for sponsoring the show! www.keepkey.com/

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode