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Noah Tsika

Professor of Media Studies at CUNY Queens, author of I’m Not There, and film historian, Noah Tsika exposes us to the brilliance in the most pop of cultural expressions — and help us reclaim the wisdom of our own sensibilities. About Noah Tsika Noah Tsika is a film historian whose work explores the links between

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EP 224 Samo Burja on Geothermal Energy

Jim talks with Samo Burja about the ideas in his recent article “Geothermal Energy Turns Planets Into Power Sources.” They discuss the heat beneath the earth’s surface, contributors to the heat, technological dependency between fracking & geothermal, the math of electricity, earthquake risk, the limits of current geology, the value of better drilling tech, new approaches

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EP 223 Jordan Hall on Cities, Civiums, and Becoming Christian

Jim talks with Jordan Hall about the ideas in his essay “From City to Civium” and about his recent conversion to Christianity. They discuss scaling laws, superlinear scaling in cities & Metcalf’s law, technologies of density, virtualization of space, ephemeralizing of communication, a tipping point in the virtualization of relationality, cities as killers, reaching the limits

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EP 222 Trent McConaghy on AI & Brain-Computer Interface Accelerationism (bci/acc)

Jim talks with Trent McConaghy about the ideas in his recent essay “bci/acc: A Pragmatic Path to Compete with Artificial Superintelligence.” They discuss the meaning of BCI (brain-computer interfaces) and acc (accelerationism), categories of AI, how much room there is for above-human intelligence, whether AI is achieving parallelism, the risks of artificial superintelligence (ASI), problems

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Brendon Lemon

Standup comedian and midwest existentialist Brendon Lemon walks us through the existential abyss, where we find out there’s actually something funny about all this. About Brendan Lemon Brendon Lemon is a comedian from Detroit, where he started performing regularly at the famous Comedy Castle at age 16. Two years in he was filmed for the

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EP 221 George Hotz on Open-Source Driving Assistance

Jim talks with George Hotz about running Comma, an open-source driving assistance company. They discuss breaking the carrier lock on the iPhone at seventeen, Google’s Project Zero, zero days, Mobileye & proprietary perception algorithms, cameras vs lidar, 6 levels of self-driving automation, the reliability of human driving, self-driving cars as “demo complete,” why corner cases aren’t

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Transcendence is for Losers

Douglas Rushkoff discusses why he feels like we’re running away from what matters – or maybe from matter, itself. 🌍 You can support Team Human on Patreon to unlock access to a number of great perks including ad-free episodes of Team Human, access to the Team Human Discord community where we record monthly Q&A sessions

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EP 220 Lene Rachel Andersen on Polymodernity

Jim talks with Lene Rachel Andersen about the ideas in her book Polymodernity: Meaning and Hope in a Complex World. They discuss the meaning of polymodernism, working with four cultural codes, polymodernism vs metamodernism, the flaw in combining stage theories with cultural history, the problem with postmodernism’s deconstruction of guidance & boundaries, 3 factors leading to

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