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Nov 8, 2022 • 1h 7min

Ep. 111: Human-to-human interfaces and collective intelligence | Malcolm Ocean

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends!Malcolm Ocean is a software engineer and systems design expert who is best known for Complice, a tool that lets you dynamically track tasks and stay productive while pursuing various long-term projects. He also spends a lot of time thinking about how improving communication could allow groups of humans to accomplish far more than is currently possible.#futurism #collectiveintelligence #communication Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Nov 1, 2022 • 47min

Ep. 110: Bitcoin and climate change | Margot Paez

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends!Margot Paez is a physicist and climate scientist who is currently finishing up a Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her interests and professional work lie at the intersection of economics, cryptocurrency, and energy.#futurism #bitcoin #climatechange Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 25, 2022 • 43min

Ep. 109: Don't be a feminist. | Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. He's written "The Myth of the Rational Voter", "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids", "The Case Against Education", and "How Evil Are Politicians?", among others. He's joining us today to talk about his latest book "Don't Be a Feminist". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 18, 2022 • 1h 4min

Ep. 108: Are we close to a technological singularity? | Trent Fowler

Help us grow by subscribing to the podcast, liking the episode, and sharing it with your friends.Trent Fowler is a machine learning engineer, author, and co-host of the Futurati Podcast. He recently appeared on the Cutting Edge Podcast with Lee Pierson to discuss artificial intelligence, consciousness, free will, epistemology, and AI risk. For more of their content, check out their excellent show at the Ayn Rand Center UK: https://www.youtube.com/c/AynRandCentreUK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 11, 2022 • 53min

Ep. 107: How to invest in emerging technologies. | Rohit Krishnan

Help us grow by subscribing to the podcast, liking the episode, and sharing it with your friends.Rohit Krishan is a venture capitalist and a writer at www.strangeloopcanon.com. He invests in companies using cutting-edge technology to create the future. He also writes essays about exploration, of ways to push the frontier of our knowledge forward, and bridge the gaps between Business, Science and Technology.#finance #investing #technology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oct 4, 2022 • 50min

Ep. 106: Neurotech and the future of law | Allan McCay

Dr Allan McCay is Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology and an Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney's Law School. He coordinates the Legal Research units at the Sydney Law School, and lectures in Criminal Law. Named as one of one of the most influential lawyers of 2021 for his work on neurotechnology, he is a member of the Management Committee of the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney, an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics, at Macquarie University, and a member of the Minding Rights Network (an international group who are working on human rights challenges related to emerging technologies). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 27, 2022 • 57min

Ep. 105: Is this the future of bitcoin mining? | Josh Moore

Help us grow by subscribing to the podcast, liking the episode, and sharing it with your friends.At the age of eighteen, Josh Moore was working for a day trader, developing complex analytical spreadsheets used to place millions of dollars in trades each day. At twenty-one, he was a pioneer of the “Checkbook IRA” industry. By the age of 30, Josh was directly responsible for moving billions of dollars from Wall Street to Main Street. In 2016 he founded the NFN8 Group, believing that the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency offered a yet-to-be-discovered, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to pioneer a new financial marketplace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 20, 2022 • 45min

Ep. 104: Fixing healthcare with decentralized applications | Leah Houston

Help us grow by liking this episode, sharing it, and subscribing to the podcast!Leah Houston, MD, practiced emergency medicine across the US for nearly 10 years before becoming an entrepreneur in the physician autonomy and digital privacy space. She experienced the administrative burden of the onboarding and credentialing process first-hand, and that experience led her to start HPEC, a digital identity and credential data wallet for practicing physicians. The HPEC wallet is a decentralized application now available on the app and Google Play stores that makes the physician the primary source of ownership and control of their professional credentials, and data. If you enjoy this interview please subscribe to the podcast and share it with your friends, and don't forget to check out our website, futuratipodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 13, 2022 • 52min

Ep. 103: Mining bitcoin with the ocean will get us to Kardashev I | Nathaniel Harmon

Nathaniel attended the University of Hawaiʻi Manoa for both his undergrad and graduate education ultimately receiving an M.S. in Marine Geology and Geochemistry. In 2018 Nathaniel founded Blockchain Solutions Hawaiʻi (BSH) as “Hawaiʻi’s Bitcoin Helpdesk” in an effort to assist individuals, legislators, and businesses as they integrate with Bitcoin. In 2021, Nathaniel combined his formal education with his passion for bitcoin by founding OceanBit Energy. The goal of OceanBits is to use Bitcoin mining to solve the economies of scale problem that has plagued Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion for over 100 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sep 6, 2022 • 1h 8min

Ep. 102: Genetic engineering and the biological basis of intelligence. | Steven Hsu

Since the discovery of genetics, people have dreamed of being able to correct diseases, select traits in children before birth, and build better human beings. Naturally, many serious technical and ethical questions surround this endeavor. Luckily, tonights' guest is as good a guide as we could hope to have.Dr. Steve Shu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. He has done extensive research in the field of computational genomics, and is the founder of several startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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