Preventing War With AGI: How Energy Hyper-Abundance and Renewables will Save Us Episode release date: 11 Jun 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 ...
Aug 30, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Can GPT-3 generate training data? Short answer? Yes! Here's why that's a legit methodology... Episode release date: 23 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 Post...
Aug 30, 2025•18 min
Two more defections from OpenAI―Greg Brockman on extended sabbatical―What is going on at OpenAI??? Episode release date: 6 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 ...
Aug 30, 2025•14 min
What is your MISSION? How to find your mission in the age of AI? (Postnihilism) Episode release date: 18 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 ...
Aug 29, 2025•53 min
Vested Interests: How a network of billionaires influences AI policy Episode release date: 14 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 ...
Aug 29, 2025•32 min
I am absolutely NONPLUSSED by Devin! Here's why! Episode release date: 13 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 Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is false, th...
Aug 29, 2025•12 min
AI X-Risk: Connor Leahy v. Beff Jezos Debate Recap + Terminal Race Condition Redux and Update Episode release date: 5 Feb 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 Postn...
Aug 29, 2025•51 min
Better Call GPT: LLMs 300x cheaper than human lawyers (and almost as good!) - Knee of the Curve! Episode release date: 1 Feb 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 Po...
Aug 29, 2025•24 min
The AGI Moloch: Nash Equilibrium, Attractor States, and Heuristic Imperatives: How to Achieve Utopia Episode release date: 4 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 realit...
Aug 29, 2025•50 min
Make Money with ChatGPT - 15 (ish) White Collar Jobs ChatGPT can help you with RIGHT NOW!! Episode release date: 26 Dec 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 Postnih...
Aug 29, 2025•48 min
AGI Poll results: AGI not dangerous, might destroy lots of jobs Episode release date: 12 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 meani...
Aug 29, 2025•5 min
Shifting Time and Cognitive Offloading with AI Tools ― And The Dark Side of AI in Education Episode release date: 2 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 Postnih...
Aug 28, 2025•52 min
Reinforcement Learning with Heuristic Imperatives (RLHI) - Ep 02 - Synthesizing Actions Episode release date: 27 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 Postnihili...
Aug 28, 2025•22 min
OpenAI GPT-4 Predictions and Rumors Episode release date: 12 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 reality Postnihilism: The demand for meaning is false, there is only t...
Aug 28, 2025•44 min
4IR Podcast - 001 - What is going to happen? Episode release date: 12 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 demand for meaning is false, there ...
Aug 28, 2025•45 min
Superintelligence is Near! Three innovations that prove it! (I think Fast Takeoff just started!!) 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 meani...
Aug 28, 2025•12 min
How a small business owner SAVED $20,000 with Gemini Flash + AI isn't coming for human jobs (yet) Episode release date: 17 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 ...
Aug 28, 2025•55 min
April 2024 - Future of AI Webinar - Jobs + Audience Questions! Episode release date: 21 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 demand for meanin...
Aug 28, 2025•1 hr 27 min
State of the Industry: AGI alignment, control problem, and missing conversations 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...
Aug 28, 2025•30 min
AI Plain and Simple: What's the big deal? Is it going to kill everyone? How can we do this right? Episode release date: 6 Feb 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...
Aug 28, 2025•32 min
Using GPT4 to edit entire chapters in my novel (Development and Prose Feedback + Summaries) Episode release date: 20 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 Postni...
Aug 27, 2025•13 min
Rumors about DeepMind AlphaCell! This is the path to Longevity Escape Velocity! 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, there...
Aug 27, 2025•18 min
OpenAI Agent Swarm: Let's build an autonomous agent swarm Pt 1: AGENTS THAT BUILD AGENTS Episode release date: 8 Nov 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 Postnihili...
Aug 27, 2025•21 min
ChatGPT as an Interpreter: Introducing the KB Microservice for autonomous AI entities Episode release date: 16 Jun 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...
Aug 27, 2025•25 min
Announcing RAVEN Open Source Community Edition!!! Episode release date: 2 Feb 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 false, th...
Aug 27, 2025•14 min
FDA Approves AI Orphan Drug Episode release date: 30 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 is false, there is only the Great...
Aug 27, 2025•16 min
AI Predictions ― 2024 to 2030 ― Year By Year Breakdown w/ Insider Info Episode release date: 29 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 fo...
Aug 27, 2025•32 min
How do we get to UBI and Post-Labor Economics? Decentralized Ownership: the New Social Contract! Episode release date: 25 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 P...
Aug 27, 2025•46 min
Terminal Race Condition: The greatest danger we face from AGI (and how to prevent it!) Episode release date: 21 Jun 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 Postnihilis...
Aug 27, 2025•1 hr 10 min
The Generative AI Revolution: Why the Data Flywheel is Your Business's Secret Weapon Episode release date: 28 May 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:...
Aug 27, 2025•19 min
