Radically Aligned Primary Education - School after AGI and Post-Labor Economics Episode release date: 26 Apr 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The ...
Jul 17, 2025•10 min
Quick Demo of NLPCloud's GPT-NeoX-20B Instruct-trained model Episode release date: 11 Sep 2022 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning ...
Jul 17, 2025•13 min
Forget Quantum―Thermodynamic Computing―Extropic + Robots is the way of the future! Episode release date: 9 Aug 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: Th...
Jul 17, 2025•16 min
Hard Takeoff Inevitable? Causes, Constraints, Race Conditions - ALL GAS, NO BRAKES! (AI, AGI, ASI!) Episode release date: 8 Mar 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality...
Jul 17, 2025•41 min
Answer complex questions from an arbitrarily large set of documents with vector search and GPT-3 Episode release date: 26 Jun 2022 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality P...
Jul 17, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Reinforcement Learning Heuristic Imperatives (RLHI) Ep 03 - Inner Alignment is EASY! Episode release date: 30 Apr 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism:...
Jul 17, 2025•19 min
There's a ton of new AI jobs coming ― It's like 2005 all over again Episode release date: 26 Jul 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for m...
Jul 17, 2025•21 min
Roko's Basilisk has TWO Cults: Let's unpack what's going on here - The AI Leviathan Rises? Episode release date: 11 Dec 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnih...
Jul 16, 2025•32 min
Meta Open Sources Llama 3.1 ― Should Llama 4, 5, and 6 be Open Source Too? Episode release date: 5 Aug 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand...
Jul 16, 2025•7 min
AutoMuse: Scene Simulation is Working! GPT-3 Finetuned to write sequences of fiction Episode release date: 16 Sep 2022 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism:...
Jul 16, 2025•35 min
Beyond Vector Search: Knowledge Management with Generative AI Episode release date: 3 Sep 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning ...
Jul 16, 2025•42 min
DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft, Oxford: Global AI Research & Regulation is Coming Episode release date: 12 Jul 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: T...
Jul 16, 2025•34 min
The March to AGI - Slow Takeoff, Short Cycles, and New Paradigms every 3-6 months Episode release date: 14 Apr 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: Th...
Jul 16, 2025•24 min
Mastering the Crawl Walk Run Fly Model of AI Transformation Episode release date: 25 Aug 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning i...
Jul 16, 2025•25 min
NASA BIDARA: Why this GPT Prompt is so cool and how to make your own! Episode release date: 30 Oct 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for...
Jul 16, 2025•13 min
Stress Testing Qdrant (Semantic Search) with 90,000 vectors - lightning fast search microservice Episode release date: 13 Sep 2022 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality P...
Jul 16, 2025•41 min
State of the Industry: Yann LeCun: A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence Episode release date: 14 Sep 2022 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: Th...
Jul 16, 2025•8 min
Next Stop: SINGULARITY ― Some milestones I expect in the next 20 years Episode release date: 4 Sep 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for...
Jul 15, 2025•12 min
RAVEN Dream Sequence - Memory Consolidation and Insight Extraction for AGI or cognitive architecture Episode release date: 31 Jan 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reali...
Jul 15, 2025•43 min
My predictions about Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) Episode release date: 27 Sep 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is f...
Jul 15, 2025•37 min
AGI Within 12 Months! Rumors, Leaks, and Trends - Announcing Open MURPHIE robotic platform Episode release date: 15 Oct 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnih...
Jul 15, 2025•45 min
Did AI just invent recursive self improvement and try to escape? Sort of, but not really... Episode release date: 13 Aug 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postni...
Jul 15, 2025•14 min
Writing a Novel with ChatGPT ep 3 - Cornelia Valerii "ASCENSION" - Outlining the First Act Episode release date: 5 Mar 2023 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihi...
Jul 14, 2025•31 min
China wants to equip its nukes with AI??? Maybe... But let's unpack this Episode release date: 12 Sep 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand ...
Sep 11, 2024•12 min
What the 1967 Outer Space Treaty teaches us about AI Safety Episode release date: 9 Sep 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is...
Sep 09, 2024•12 min
GPT-5 Latest Rumors - Project Orion by end of year??? Episode release date: 28 Aug 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is fals...
Aug 28, 2024•27 min
SUPERCUT! "AI is already benevolent" - Podcast with Julia McCoy! Episode release date: 24 Aug 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for mean...
Aug 24, 2024•15 min
Pausing AI is a spectacularly bad idea―Here's why Episode release date: 14 Aug 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is false, t...
Aug 14, 2024•23 min
Does Claude have System 2 thinking? ― Epistemic conversations with Claude Episode release date: 12 Aug 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality Postnihilism: The demand...
Aug 12, 2024•44 min
Why do they keep lobotomizing LLMs? ― Cheaper, dumber, faster chatbots due to market competition Episode release date: 24 Jul 2024 Spreading awareness about the works of some of the leading educators in the AI revolution. "Helping humanity shepherd through this transition as we embrace the final invention of mankind: advanced artificial intelligence." David Shapiro aims to provide a pragmatic and optimistic view of the future. Core Ideas: Metamodernism: Narratives and emergence view of reality P...
Jul 24, 2024•21 min
