Clifford Mapp is the global head of ecosystem development and information security at Dynex, the world’s only accessible neuromorphic quantum computing cloud for solving real-world problems at scale. Dynex is already supporting thousands of projects in health/pharma, research, AI/ML, architecture, aerospace, EVs, and fintech. Learn more about your …

Nathan Labenz is a technology entrepreneur, artificial intelligence analyst, and the founder and former CEO of Waymark. With a background in philosophy and a keen eye for innovation, Nathan led Waymark from its inception to its status as a trailblazer in generative AI-powered content creation. As host of 'The Cognitive Revolution' podcast, he explo…

Nat Eliason began as a successful marketer and the founder of Growth Machine before turning to writing full-time. He recently published "Crypto Confidential," an unfiltered, insider’s account of the hyperactive, hyper-speculative, hyper-addictive, nearly unregulated, completely insane world being built on the blockchain. Learn more about your ad ch…

Dr. Andrew M. Bailey Andrew is an interdisciplinary teacher and scholar whose work spans philosophy, politics, and economics. He is a Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College (Singapore), and he is the co-author of the upcoming book "Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic…

Nick Frosst is a computer scientist and musician. He co-founded Cohere, which is a company focused on training large language models and making them available through a network-based API. He was also the first employee of Geoffrey Hinton Google Brain lab in Toronto, where he spent 3 years researching capsule networks, adversarial examples, and expl…

David Shapiro. David is a former engineer who became famous through his dozens of well-received tutorials on Youtube, covering everything from fine-tuning ChatGPT to his proposed solution to the alignment problem. His work focuses on ensuring that advanced technologies are used safely, bringing about an abundant, post-scarcity, post-nihilistic futu…

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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. Learn mor…

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…

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 Lond…

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 tog…

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. Learn more about your ad choices. …

Taylor Black is a cross-functional team leader and seasoned entrepreneur passionate about driving innovation and growth. As a co-founder of Fizzy Ventures and a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Incubation Studio, Taylor has been at the forefront of entrepreneurial ecosystems, venture studios, and technology and business model innovation. Than…

Emery Gunselman is a former astrodynamics engineer and is currently a Satellite Operations Product Owner at Morpheus Space. Morpheus Space is disrupting the NewSpace industry by introducing Agile Constellations, a fusion between cutting-edge electric propulsion and Artificial Intelligence, which enables satellite service providers to operate entire…

James Pethokoukis is a senior fellow and the DeWitt Wallace Chair at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he analyzes US economic policy, writes and edits the AEIdeas blog, and hosts AEI’s Political Economy podcast. He is also a contributor to CNBC and writes the “Faster, Please!” newsletter on Substack. Mr. Pethokoukis is a 2002 “Jeopard…

Nicholas Smart has 15 years' experience as a professional intelligence and security analyst working for government agencies and private companies, covering political, social, military, economic, information and infrastructure issues, and he has experience working as a compliance officer for a cryptoasset trading desk. At present, he is the director…

Augustus Doricko is a former Berkley Data Scientist who went on to co-found Terra Seco, a company that uses cutting-edge technology to help with water conservation efforts. Today, he is best known as the head of Rainmaker, a startup looking to end global water scarcity through advanced cloud seeding and weather modification technologies. Learn more…

David Shapiro is a former engineer who became famous through his dozens of well-received tutorials on Youtube, covering everything from fine-tuning ChatGPT to his proposed solution to the alignment problem. His work focuses on ensuring that advanced technologies are used safely, bringing about an abundant, post-scarcity, post-nihilistic future. Lea…

Peter St Onge is a Ph.D. economist at the Heritage Foundation, a Mises Institute Fellow, and a former MBA professor in Taiwan. His approach to economic analysis is heavily informed by the “Austrian School”, which builds economics on more realistic foundations, and he is driven by a desire to understand the policies and technologies that make the wo…

Dr. Terence Kealey is a professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom, where he served as vice chancellor until 2014. As a clinical biochemist, Dr. Kealey studied human experimental dermatology, and he discovered how distorting government money could be to the scientific enterprise. In 1996, he published h…

Dr. Qichao Hu serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of SES. He is the recipient of MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35” and was named one of the Forbes “30 Under 30” in 2013. Dr. Hu earned his BS in Physics from MIT and his PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg…

Quintin Pope is a computer science graduate student at Oregon State University, and an alignment researcher focusing on methods of instilling human-compatible values into deep learning-based AI systems, with a particular focus on language models. He co-developed shard theory, an attempt to explain the human value formation process as a consequence …

Zenobia Godschalk is an entrepreneur and the senior vice president of Hedera, a fully open-source public distributed ledger that utilizes the fast, fair, and secure hashgraph consensus. Its network services include Solidity-based smart contracts, as well as native tokenization and consensus services used by a thriving community of developers to bui…

Scott Tibbits is a leader, inventor, and founder of both Starsys Research and The Center for Space Entrepreneurship. He was the recipient of the "Esprit Entrepreneur of Distinction" award in 1998 and is the holder of ten patents in technologies as diverse as medical devices, spacecraft products, and telecom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit …

Robert Hendershott is a finance professor, hedge fund CIO, and evangelist for a philosophy he calls "ingenuism". Ingenuism comes from the thesis that human progress stems, at its core, from ingenuity - the unique human amalgamation of curiosity and ambition. Nurturing ingenuity is the most important thing that a culture can do: there is no ceiling …

Dr. Mohit Jain is a physician-scientist with more than 20 years of expertise in physiology, biomedicine, engineering, computational biology, and mass spectrometry-based metabolomics. Prior to founding Sapient, he formed and was director of Jain Laboratory at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). There he led a multi-disciplinary research t…

Julian Rodriguez is a serial entrepreneur, product manager, and innovation-focused strategist with a passion for leading teams that build easy-to-use products and solve large problems. After founding a disruptive venture capital-backed tech startup in the B2B food service space he joined Bitcoin Magazine in 2013, where he worked directly with its c…

Check out Matt's other podcasts: https://planorama.design/podcast Use this link for early access to sinfonia: https://sinfonia.site Matt Genovese is the CEO of Planorama Design, a software user experience design professional services company based in Austin, Texas. With over 25 years of experience in high-tech spanning semiconductors to software, M…

Through a series of popular explainer videos, Rob has become one of the most prominent voices in the AI safety community, exploring topics like cryptography, recursive self-improvement, and meso-alignment with hundreds of thousands of fans. In this interview, we spend nearly two hours getting into the weeds on how powerful AI systems might be dange…

Elizabeth Varghese is well known as a futurist, humanist, and thinker on the topic of space exploration. She leads the People in Space business at Deloitte, she is on the Council of Advisors for The SETI Institute, and she has been called the “Space Philosopher” by leaders from DARPA because she integrates the technological aspects of our expansion…

Noel Carroll took the helm of Biofriendly in March of 2018. As its Chief Executive Officer, he focuses on modernizing the company and pushing it toward a leadership role in the environmental community. Always passionate about the environment, Noel is doing this by widening the focus of the company from its flagship product (Green Plus) to a broader…

Tigran Petrosyan is a physicist turned tech enthusiast and entrepreneur who is passionate about building comprehensive teams and making products people love. He is currently building "SuperAnnotate", an automated annotation tool that helps to speed up the computer vision lifecycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Suman Kanuganti is the co-founder and CEO at Personal.ai, a company that is reinventing human-to-human messaging by leveraging AI that helps people collaborate, exchange ideas, and deepen their relationships with others. As a creator and entrepreneur, Suman is passionate about solving problems for humans by leveraging the power of blockchain, robot…

Tim Kravchunovsky is an experienced network engineer who has decades of experience in consulting and entrepreneurship. Today, he's the CEO of Chirp, where he's using decentralized technologies like the blockchain to change the internet of things. #blockchain #crypto #internetofthings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Zvi Mowshowitz is a former professional Magic: The Gathering player, a former trader and market maker in both traditional and non-traditional markets, and he was CEO of the personalized medical startup MetaMed. Recently, he wrote a very thoughtful analysis of the Future of Life's call to halt experiments with large language models, and that's the s…

effrey Ladish runs a security company called Gordian Research which provides operational security consulting services, and he spends his remaining time thinking about new and old ways of working together to build good communities, governance systems, and ultimately a thriving and robust civilization. #artificialintelligence #aisafety #existentialri…

Thomas and Trent talk about the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Balaji Srinivasan's bet on Bitcoin and hyperinflation, the CFTC’s lawsuit against Binance, the importance of finance, the morality of price gouging, and the prospects of generative AI. #bitcoin #siliconvalleybank #generativeAI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f…

Chris Mattmann is the IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well as the Division Manager of the AI, Analytics, and Innovative Development Organization in the Information Technology and Solutions Directorate. He works on ensuring that cutting-edge technologies support NASA’s science missions. If you enjoy…

Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum is a tenured Professor and Director of the Center for Medical Mycology at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Medical Center. He is also the co-founder of BIOHM, the first total microbiome company in the United States. He is the preeminent NIH-funded scientist on all things fungi and brings a captivating di…

Emiliano De Laurentiis is a trained cognitive psychologist with a lifelong interest in lifelong learning, and an impressive record of using technology to enhance educational outcomes. In the 80s, his "Arrakas Advantage" series was the first educational software to use chatbots. In the 90s, he launched a website that brought adaptive, student-specif…

Alex Goryachev is the former managing director of Cisco’s global Co-Innovation Center, where he spearheaded programs and initiatives to accelerate innovation. He is a Silicon Valley veteran who is a sought-after speaker on innovation and is often referred to as the ‘innovation therapist’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic…

Tonight Thomas and Trent are bringing you a solo episode. In recent weeks, the internet has exploded with talk of the incredible tools released by OpenAI. With its remarkable ability to generate and explain code, write in multiple languages, create long, coherent essays, and even generate poetry, nursery rhymes, and fiction, ChatGPT in particular h…

Jane Gatsby is a complexity theorist and political philosopher. Her digital series “Wonderland” explores philosophy and political theory from first principles, bringing listeners down the rabbit hole and into a world of exploration and curiosity. She is interested in how we can construct better cities of the future, rethinking traditional instituti…

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Michael Strike was a computer architect for 20 years before turning his attention to creating a blockchain ledger that can withstand the emergence of quantum computing. Today, he pursues this ambition at a project called the Quantum Resis…

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Anastasia Marchenkova has been a researcher at the quantum telecommunications and quantum optics lab at Georgia Tech, the University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute, and is currently working on superconducting qubits. #quantumcomputin…

Share this episode with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe! Roger Spitz is co-author of the forthcoming book The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption; President of Techistential (Global Foresight Strategy); and Chairman of the Disruptive Futures Institute. He has given over 100 keynote talks globally, and he has two decades of experi…

Share this episode with your friends, and don’t forget to subscribe! Alex Bäcker is an entrepreneur, speaker, and technologist who invented remote mobile queueing, evolutionary marketing, and a powerful semantic search engine. His most recent endeavor is Drisit, the world’s remote drone control and global vision platform. Introducing the shared eco…

Share this episode with your friends, and don’t forget to subscribe! Handel Jones has over 50 years of experience in the electronics industry and has led International Business Strategies (IBS Inc.) for over 30 years. IBS supports government organizations and major corporations in the United States, Europe, and China by helping to predict market tr…

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Allen Farrington & Sacha Meyers. Allen and Sacha are both investors in traditional finance who draw heavily on philosophy, history, and economics to understand bitcoin, how it is evolving, and how it will likely change the world in the fu…

Defi Danny bills himself as 'the crypto simplifier', and he is an educator who specializes in breaking down the complexities of blockchain technologies and the cryptocurrency ecosystem in language simple enough for anyone to understand. His overarching goal is to bring crypto to everyone by making the learning curve easier to handle. Danny’s twitte…