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EP 302 Daniel Mezick on Games and Governance

Jim talks with Daniel Mezick on the theme of games and their relationship to governance. They discuss Jane McGonigal’s four properties of games, the nature of authority, position-based vs role-based authority, formal vs. informal authority structures, finite & infinite games, mutable games, the paradox of self-amendment, the U.S. Constitution as a game, progress tracking in […]

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Alex Kazemi: Live from The Strand

Playing for Team Human today, Canadian pop artist, author, journalist, magician, and CEO of VOID Collective, Alex Kazemi. New Millennium Boyz: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/New-Millennium-Boyz/Alex-Kazemi/9798888459539  Alex’s website: https://alexkazemi.com/ Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone’s Earth. Learn more about Everyone’s Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Use the code “rush10” for 10% off Cobi Dryer

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EP 301 Zak Stein on K-12 Education in the AI Era

Jim talks with Zak Stein about the psychological and developmental risks of AI in K-12 education. They discuss education vs schooling, technology’s role in human-to-human interaction, GPS & skill atrophy, prosthetic vs enhancement technologies, multipolar traps in AI, cognitive diminishment & skill development, teacherly authority, attention as a constrained resource, attention as a service, parasocial

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EP 300 Daniel Rodriguez on AI-Assisted Software Development

Jim talks with Daniel Rodriguez about the state of AI software development and its implementation in industry. They discuss Daniel’s background at Microsoft & Anaconda, transformer-based technologies, software engineering as hard vs soft science, vibe coding, barriers to entry in software engineering, cognitive styles needed for programming, Daniel’s history with LLMs, unit testing & test-driven

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David Bollier: The Commons Are Not a Tragedy

Playing for Team Human today, activist, Blogger, and Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier. Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone’s Earth. Learn more about Everyone’s Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Support Team Human on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman Follow Team Human

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EP 299 Ryan Blosser on Permaculture for Food and Friendship

Jim talks with Ryan Blosser about the ideas in his book Mulberries in the Rain: Growing Permaculture Plants for Food and Friendship, co-authored with Trevor Pearsall. They discuss the motivation behind writing a permaculture book, the human sector in permaculture design, financial challenges of permaculture farming, 8 forms of capital, food forest design principles, plant guild

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EP 298 Adam Lake on Rebooting American Democracy

Jim talks with Adam Lake about Reboot America, a project aimed at reforming American democracy. They discuss existential threats facing humanity, the two-party corporate duopoly, a Princeton study on policy preferences, first-past-the-post voting problems, campaign finance issues, social media’s role in polarization, wealth & income inequality, Bernie Sanders’s Fight Oligarchy tour, the Democratic Party’s cultural

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Conner Habib: Live Up To Your Fool Potential

Playing for Team Human today, novelist, spiritualist and host of the podcast Against Everyone, my friend Conner Habib. This conversation continues tomorrow on Conner’s podcast, Against Everyone. Conner’s Patreon: patreon.com/connerhabib Conner’s Website: connerhabib.com Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone’s Earth. Learn more about Everyone’s Earth: https://everyonesearth.com/ Change Diapers: https://changediapers.com/ Cobi Dryer Sheets: https://cobidryersheets.com/ Support

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EP 297 Sara Walker on the Physics of Life’s Emergence

Jim talks with Sara Walker about the ideas in her new book Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence. They discuss Sara’s path from theoretical physics to astrobiology, the biggest scientific questions, philosophy of science & theory development, historical approaches to origin of life research, Schrödinger’s negative entropy concept, Prigogine’s dissipative

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The Fascist Atmosphere

Has digital technology turned us all into fascists? Rushkoff explores fascism as an environment in which we live, rather than the specific ideology of one “side.” He shows how technology, psychedelics, and business are all “non-specific amplifiers,” yielding different results depending on what we bring to them. He asks us to consider what would happen

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