"I think our minds are extended in every act of perception. We look at a distant star, our mind is reaching out to touch that star, literally over astronomical distances." Rupert Sheldrake discusses the extended mind… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivka-X9RfI
"I think that the revolution is going to have to be triggered by people outside institutional science rather than from inside..." Rupert Sheldrake outlines what it would take to achieve a "phase change" in the sciences. Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivka-X9RfI
"Most real scientific discoveries come from intuitive imaginative leaps." -- Rupert Sheldrake Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivka-X9RfI
"The entire incentive system (...) is not based on changing the world for the better or coming up with useful inventions. It's based on the number of papers you get published in high prestige journals." Here's Rupert Sheldrake on the "straitjacket" of institutional science… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivka-X9RfI
"The vast majority of Americans don't have professions. They have jobs. (...) As a society, we could think more about how to create sources of meaning and fulfillment for those people." -- Rob Henderson Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8tgCpt12zU&t=2s
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of 9 books and over 100 scientific papers. A critic of what he sees as the scientific establishment’s dogmatic dedication to materialism, he is perhaps best known for his theory of “morphic resonance,” via which information and activity can be transferred across space…
"Whatever is going on up here inside you, that's meaningless. What actually matters is the action you take." -- Rob Henderson on the difference between motivation and discipline... Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8tgCpt12zU
Rob Henderson — Troubled Description: Friend-of-the-show Rob Henderson returns to discuss his powerful, moving and important debut book, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class (published TODAY). We discuss Rob’s experience of the American foster care and adoption system, the life-changing impact of the military, the rise…
Alec Stapp's think tank, The Institute For Progress, works with policymakers across the political spectrum to achieve progress in the United States. Alec gives a masterclass on how to FRAME important policy choices in terms of OUTCOMES that voters care about… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0EE-pBrpPw
"US soft power comes through being the global R&D lab. And the more we can do of that, the better we can benefit the entire world." Alec Stapp explains how The Institute for Progress identifies common ground between the Silicon Valley and DC mindsets… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0EE-pBrpPw
“If you want the biggest bang for your buck as a policy wonk, as someone who's working in this field, US federal policy is the largest lever you possibly can have." — Alec Stapp Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0EE-pBrpPw
Title: Alec Stapp — Progress is a Policy Choice Description: Alec Stapp is the co-founder of the Institute for Progress, a non-partisan innovation policy think tank aiming to “accelerate scientific, technological and industrial progress while safeguarding humanity’s future.” He joins the show to discuss how to achieve change in the…
"I encourage people to tinker more, to produce more. There's a large amount of learning that is impossible to get by reading." — Rohit Krishnan explains why we should all spend more time tinkering... Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYM0SUIQtV8
"We are all centaurs already. We live most of our lives on digital technology connected with other human beings. We are part of some weird form of a hive mind, and we are all cyborgs." — Rohit Krishnan Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYM0SUIQtV8
What impact will synthetic data have on AI development? “I think synthetic data will help dramatically in paradigm progress. I don't see how it can help it shift in any meaningful paradigm shift.” — Rohit Krishnan Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYM0SUIQtV8
"if you ask us to do the same thing twice, the chances that we will do it exactly the same, the way an old-fashioned robot would have done it, is not very high." Rohit Krishnan explains why AI is a "fuzzy processor…” Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYM0SUIQtV8
Essayist, tinkerer, and author Rohit Krishnan returns to discuss his book, Building God: Demystifying AI for Decision Makers. Important Links: - Strange Loop Canon - https://www.strangeloopcanon.com (Rohit’s Substack) - Building God: Demystifying AI for Decision Makers - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-God-Demystifying-Decision-Makers-ebook/dp/B0CJ9F327M - Rohit’s Twitter - https://x.com/krishnanrohit?s=20 Show Notes: 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:09 Main podcast…
"I can't imagine just consuming or reading or watching [...] viewpoints that I just already agree with. It might make you feel good, but I just think it's a waste of time." -- Jim O’Shaughnessy Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Poa-1JzsSw&t=3s
Jim O'Shaughnessy's advice to new parents🤱: "The beauty is that we all are little bits of flawed spiritual and genetic DNA, and everyone is unique in that sense. And so trying to make somebody something that they're not is a recipe for failure." Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Poa-1JzsSw&t=3s
"History, we, society, humans, we are about becoming. We are not about being, we are about becoming. We're forever changing and, hopefully, growing..." -- Jim O’Shaughnessy Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Poa-1JzsSw&t=3s
"And Oprah lit up. And she goes, "I love that." And so when the cameras came on, Oprah's got this big smile and she's got the book and she's endorsing me.” Jim O’Shaughnessy recalls his appearance on Oprah… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Poa-1JzsSw&t=3s
For this milestone 200th (yes, TWO HUNDREDTH) episode of Infinite Loops, regular guest and Infinite Media head Liberty RPF joins writer & researcher Ed William to turn the tables on Jim O’Shaughnessy. Stay tuned for Jim’s dream podcast guests, his advice to parents, a diabolical spin on his trademark closing…
"smart people are not always great at boasting about themselves..." Here's Minn Kim on how Plymouth Street uses storytelling to highlight talented individuals' achievements and experiences… Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXFxYFW7ADE
"Our mission is to accelerate technological progress by enabling the movement of highly skilled talent globally. We still believe, and we fundamentally believe, that America is the best place to build..." -- Lisa Wehden of Plymouth Street Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXFxYFW7ADE