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Where New Industries Come From: Ben Landau-Taylor lecture

Sunday, September 13, 2026 • Duration 32:22

Sober, risk-averse, rational businessmen make great captains of industry—in established industries which someone else already built. But the new industries which drive progress come from wild half-mad ideologues. This lecture covers the psychology of the men behind the major breakthroughs, from the steam engine to the large language model.

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Samo Burja — How Bureaucracy Defeated Democracy

Saturday, September 12, 2026 • Duration 55:11

Samo Burja and Ben Landau-Taylor cover bureaucracy—why the golden age of bureaucracies worked so well in the early 20th century, how bureaucratic class interest overcomes checks and balances, and bureaucracy's role in today's Western governments.

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Richard Ngo — What Makes Hierarchy Legitimate (Human Or Not)

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 • Duration 02:09:08

Richard Ngo argues against Wolf Tivy’s xenohumanism lecture. (https://open.spotify.com/episode/0XmEjgRaBpp3OxDrV3WXLD) What is the moral ground for cooperation and hierarchy? We need the answer to build a good society today, or to build a good AI future tomorrow.

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Stop Waiting For AGI And Go To Space

Friday, September 4, 2026 • Duration 01:46:10

The long-awaited Marko Jukic episode. We all expect AGI to colonize the stars because it's the obvious thing any healthy expanding system does naturally. So why aren't we? Marko explains the elaborate cope keeping us on Earth.

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Where "Open Source" Came From

Tuesday, September 1, 2026 • Duration 46:35

The internet can feel like a part of the landscape, but all our software was intelligently designed—and so were the social systems which produce that software. Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute tells Ben Landau-Taylor about the struggle to define "open source software".

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The Problem Of Humanity: Wolf Tivy lecture

Sunday, August 30, 2026 • Duration 01:12:03

Our concepts of "humanity" and "humanitarianism" are usually taken as the eternal bedrock of morality. Today, artificial intelligence raises the prospect of "posthumanity", and magnates and regulators discuss what “humanity should do” about this. But in fact, the concept of "humanity" is a relatively recent and flimsy creation of the postwar political order. We need to abandon it to find our place in the future.

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Will Technocapital Outlive Our Civilization?

Friday, August 28, 2026 • Duration 01:15:48

Samo Burja and Wolf Tivy discuss the forces raising our civilization higher vs the forces pulling it down. Is techno-industrial progress made of social and intellectual components which will take it down when they go, or can it outgrow the decay?

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Joscha Bach — Consciousness Builds the Mind

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 • Duration 02:08:08

Joscha Bach and Wolf Tivy discuss how consciousness may be a convergent strategy for organizing both human and machine minds, whether powerful AI minds will resolve conflicts by merging or by fighting each other, and much more.

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The Dutch Revolt: Jonathan Wallis lecture

Sunday, August 23, 2026 • Duration 01:16:35

In 1572 twelve Dutch cities - less than a million people - began a war for independence against a global superpower and won. Over the next century they went toe-to-toe with the Spanish, English, and French and built the institutions which have defined the modern world. Jonathan Wallis explains how.

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Someone Had To Build Your Community — Jonathan Wallis

Friday, August 21, 2026 • Duration 50:02

Intellectual activity, like any complex activity, can only take place in a rich social fabric. Jonathan Wallis and Ben Landau-Taylor talk about how to build community and why it's worthwhile.

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