Zohar Atkins He is a rabbi, philosopher, blogger and podcaster. His podcast is called Meditations With Zohar Show Notes Who is your favorite philosopher? What is non-aggressive socratic questioning? Why do you like Heidegger? How was he Nazi-ism How do you relate to the history of philosophy? How do you walk the line between tradition and being a revolutionary? What was your first experience learning for yourself instead of learning top-down? What does it feel like to have a hunger for learning?...
Apr 10, 2023•51 min•Season 13Ep. 14
AJ is a software engineer interested in Urbit and data composability. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajlamarc https://www.ajlamarc.com/ Keep an eye out on Holium, and making it easier to code in Javascript for Urbit Notes What is data composability? Multiple applications sharing data and make the interfaces work together OpenAIs that both Twitter and Facebook had and then were shut down Data is the main product that these applications have You can separate the data and the code Personal AI How did...
Apr 03, 2023•54 min•Season 13Ep. 13
Dave Snowden is the Chief Scientific Officer of Cynefin. Head of Knowledge Management for 30 years. Author of Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World ( https://tinyurl.com/4958x362) When did knowledge management start in the 90s? The ultimate disciplinary field What is intellectual capital? Intellectual property What is the anarcha book? Knowledge management is information management What is relevant knowledge? What is messy coherence? What is exaptive innovation? How do you ...
Mar 27, 2023•52 min•Season 13Ep. 12
Adam is the VP of engineering at Invisible Technologies and active angel investment If you have specific questions, send them on to Adam@invisible.co How do you organize information and data in order to spend most of your time on high-level work? How do you manage people who report to you to also do the same? What does knowledge management mean to you? What are the applications that will leverage LLMs? What is an intranet? Transition from card catalog to Google How do you take structured things ...
Mar 20, 2023•46 min•Season 13Ep. 11
Kirill Zubovsky Prompt Engineer and CEO of @ SmartyNames.com What is Smartynames.com? Does Godaddy front-run domain names by buying them as soon as you search for them? They are 12 billion $ company What have you learned about Machine Learning from doing this? Did you have to learn a lot to develop on openai’s algorithm? How do you add uncertainty to your AI prompts? Why do people like to hack individual AI systems instead of hacking the big ones? What are the companies that will start to build ...
Mar 13, 2023•48 min•Season 13Ep. 10
Pablo Peniche does front-end engineering, marketing, and design. Wears many hats at Viennahypertext Twitter: https://twitter.com/PabloPeniche https://vienna.earth/ What do Mexicans think about Central Americans? What is the relationship between urbit and vienna hypertext? What is vienna hypertext? An information network Create different canvases with blocks Why is vienna hypertext hard to build on urbit? Does engineering advance science or does science advance engineering? What is the relationsh...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 13Ep. 9
Ivan Vendrov is A I researcher, ML engineer interested in speculation of future systems Twitter: https://twitter.com/IvanVendrov Website: https://www.vendrov.ai/ Questions discussed or for further discussions What do you think is the great X-risks humans face today? What are some weaknesses in terms of technology in general? How do you steer technology to make sure it's not developing in ways that are harmful? What is your take on spirituality? What is the intersection between the Russian Orthod...
Feb 27, 2023•47 min•Season 13Ep. 8
Woody Wiegmann https://twitter.com/WoodyWiegmann What will AI do the ability of people who have limited intelligence and agency? What will AI do to humans who tend to create rituals for guidance on what to do? Back in the 400BC, humans were ritually inclined, to put off their questions to ritual Are there going to be business moats around AI? How do humans seem to get things wrong and that ends up being their superpower? The tribe is now occulted behind crazy complexity, what does that mean? Wha...
Feb 20, 2023•54 min•Season 13Ep. 7
Eric Helal Founder of Quartus a Dev shop for Urbit Apps Rabsef-bicrym on Urbit https://twitter.com/SafePen ~dalten/new-aera https://twitter.com/_dalten Are we in Utopia or dystopia or neither? What are the other options besides social dystopia? Resource constraint Wind from a dying star novel Technology stultification How does Urbit help to solve this? What does it mean to lose understanding of first principles as an individual and a society? How does technology influence us to dissociate from t...
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 13Ep. 6
Adam Chavez is a Founder of Freeplay, & Mokriya. We make sense of where we’re headed as a society in a post-trust, post-2020 world. What’s up with Steve Jobs’ apparent belief in magic? Why does that matter? We also talk AI, holographic theory, the impact of ancient Abraham on America, & the Minecraft Generation. https://alkebulan.substack.com/ adam@adamchavez.net https://twitter.com/anksolado What is the relation between the occult and steve jobs? What is a story of 0 to 1 in occult lang...
Feb 06, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 13Ep. 5
Trent Gillham Founder of Holium ~lomder-librun on Urbit https://twitter.com/AidenSolaran What does it mean to reject and transcend triviality? What do you know about machine learning given your experience in 2018? What was it like to work at a big company like GE? What have you learned about starting a startup? What is it like to develop on urbit? How does non-attachment help us to build products but also distract us from with the masses? What is Holium? Community operating system How is the cur...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 13Ep. 4
A full-stack web developer, speaker and adviser to a small number of blockchain startups Owenbarnes.com On urbit: ~locruc-fonmec What are the foundations of privacy? What is the next big thing? Was Facebook built in PHP? Where do you see Urbit converging with cryptocurrency values? What is composability? What happened with Tornado Cash? What is a personal AI? What is the transformer paradigm? What is the apocalyptic paradigm when it comes to AI? Why is there so much fear regarding AI? Will AI ev...
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 13Ep. 3
Sam Frank, Writer, Investor, and Board member of the Urbit Foundation Substack: https://samfrank.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/anecdoted Urbit ID: ~todset-partug How did you first get involved with Urbit? What is it like to be a writer in the descent of that profession brought on by the internet? What are the politics like in the new york writer's groups? What does it mean to be a rationalist? Did you see the Peter Theil takedown of the rationalist community? What was Vitalik like b...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 13Ep. 3
Stephen is working on AI dev on Near protocol and developing on Ethereum What is the NEAR blockchain? What is sharding? Increasing throughput of the transactions Breaking up the blockchain into shards so that you can get more parallelism When does ETH sharding begin? ETH sharding is based on blobs Why are you attracted to Rust? Can you use Rust on Ethereum? What is a virtual machine? Something that is interpreting bite code instead of binary Why would a blockchain need a virtual machine? Why are...
Jan 09, 2023•56 min•Season 13Ep. 2
Deborah Simpier Co-founder & CEO of Althea Network and Gravity Bridge What does Althea network do? What is interoperability? What is the payment experience like right now? Why do telcos get monopolized? When did we start referring to people as users? Why do 29% of New York City not have access to the internet? How do you create frictionless payments? What is the relationship between stable coins and frictionless payments? What do you mean by machine to machine? Have people tried to game the ...
Jan 02, 2023•46 min•Season 13Ep. 1
Dr. Jonathan Paprocki Jonathan is a specialist in topological quantum compiling, a Tlon engineer, you can find him on Urbit @ ~Datnut-Pollen Blog can be found at Discordia (http://datnut-pollen.discordja.net/discordja) What is a Kundalini awakening? What do old dusty books say about Kundalini? What is the relationship between Kundalini and topological quantum computers? Can everything be explained by science? How do you deal with the skepticism that other people give you that you used to give th...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 12Ep. 11
Today we have Casey Rodarmor, a bitcoin developer who is working on building non-fungible tokens (NFTs) directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. NFTs are digital assets that are unique and cannot be exchanged for other assets. They have become popular on Ethereum, but have not yet been implemented on the Bitcoin blockchain. Casey is working on a protocol that will allow NFTs to be natively held in a Bitcoin wallet and transferred using Bitcoin transactions. He believes that NFTs have the potential to...
Dec 19, 2022•55 min•Season 12Ep. 10
Kenny Rowe is the founder of the Dalten Collective (~sicdev-pilnup), in a previous life he was on the founding team of MakerDAO What is the dalten collective? Collectively own an urbit start together What is a node? What is peer discovery? What is governance when it comes to Urbit? What can you do with a star on Urbit? What is the relationship between Urbit and DAOs? How do groups do sense-making? What is better for sense-making: an individual or the collective? What are the three values for the...
Dec 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 12Ep. 9
Aaron Lowry ( https://twitter.com/Aaron_Lowry ) Why are you interested in Cardano? Why didn’t you switch to ETH and stay with Classic? What are the main challenges to build decentralized systems? With functional governance? How does verifiability contribute to more challenging programming issues? What was the Ethereum schism between classic and ETH? With the unilateral move to create a new ETH chain we see the first centralization Cardano is centralized in explicit ways through the initial token...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 12Ep. 8
Noah Kumin Editor In Chief of the Mars Review of Books, publish at machinewar.substack.com ~librex-dozryc on Urbit What is the mars review of books? What is the relationship between collapse and urbit? How did you get involved with Urbit? What are the downsides of having everything become easily accessible? Do you think that Urbit will take all the good parts of the old web but keep the beauty of decentralization? What are the data storage aspects of urbit? Why is it confusing when people say Ur...
Nov 28, 2022•54 min•Season 12Ep. 7
This episode was meant to fulfill a personal curiosity of mine about CNC routers for wood working and how they are changing a very old skill. I wanted to see how it fit into my thesis of decentralized manufacturing and how it relates to additive manufacturing. It gets a little technical so you will like this episode if you already have some knowledge about building physical things. Here are some questions we cover: What is CNC? What is a CNC router? WHat is the difference between making and desi...
Nov 22, 2022•45 min•Season 12Ep. 6
Nicholas Faulkner chemistry and physics teacher, former nuclear engineer, author of the upcoming book “Angelic Physics” How do you ascend to the next level of consciousness? What does it feel like to have an out of body experience? What are your thoughts on the future of nuclear power? What are the physics of nuclear power? How long will it take to feel the benefits of nuclear power if we start building massively? What is the waste of solar versus the waste of nuclear? What is the deal with gett...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 12Ep. 5
What type of additive manufacturing machines does the company you work for have? What is the role of proprietary legal stuff when it comes to additive manufacturing? What is an EOS machine? Has Germany always been an additive manufacturer superpower? Is China taking over from them? What is a service bureau? Contract manufacturing How many interactions with a client on a particular part do you usually do? 2-3 generally between when the customer needs to test it 10 builds total over 1-2 years What...
Nov 07, 2022•49 min•Season 12Ep. 4
What is it like to compete against square? What is it like to charge people to come on a podcast to interview them? Is podcasting like a press organization? When did they invent paper? What is the fundamental process behind decentralization? Is it good nor bad? Is bitcoin a money revolution or a technological innovation? What is the thesis, synthesis and anti synthesis cycle? Is the BTC volatility based on price discovery? What was the significance of the luna and celsius collapse? In 2021, ever...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 12Ep. 3
Michael Tauberg Hardware and software engineer with over 10 years of experience in firmware, systems validation and test automation What happened in China with sanctions on microchips, particularly on Oct 7th 2022? What is the goal of the US government with these moves? What hasn’t been allowed for awhile? What is new restrictions? What is a microchip? What is ASML? A dutch company that makes the equipment that makes chips Extreme ultraviolet is a new technology What has been done on the AI fron...
Oct 24, 2022•50 min•Season 12Ep. 2
Justin is the Principal Materials and Manufacturing Engineer at Ursa Major Technologies and used to run materials at SpaceX Questions we cover on the show: Is it possible to 3D print engines or motors using additive manufacturing with metal? Do those engines/motors have different design constraints? What time frame would it be until a consumer/tinkerer could get their hands on something affordable that could help them build motors/engines at their house? What is the impact of AI on the design pr...
Oct 17, 2022•56 min•Season 12Ep. 1
What is a Maker Space? What is a Skill Share? Are cars more plastic than metal? How can you create more intimate realtionships with everything in your life? What is Upcycling? What is Cooperative Community Development? Is local always better? Is efficiency the bottom line? What is a Fila-bot?
Oct 10, 2022•58 min•Season 10Ep. 16
My pseudoanonymous guest here today is ~Pilwyc-Fastec, you can find him on Urbit by that name spelled out Urbit is the right OS to build the future of the smart home. What is a smart home? What does it mean to shift around time? How did the mainframe build the modern smart home infrastructure? How can we share time on devices with others in a home in an intelligent way? What was the grant process like for Urbit? What is identity? Peer to peer versus server to client What does it mean to codify r...
Oct 03, 2022•45 min•Season 10Ep. 15
Follow @losMapMaker on Twitter He is a Metaphysical spice¹ trader. Cyclical time cartographer. Exotic information imports What happened between Socrates and now? What is cyclical time versus linear time? What have you learned from the fourth turning? Why is it that somethings outside the realm of science that are also predictive? Why does science think that it is predictive when it isnt always (rona)? Does the 4th turning have any connection with vedic astrology? Who are some famous mathemeticia...
Sep 26, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 11Ep. 1
Wade Townsend When did you get into playing poker? What is negotiation when it comes to draft for baseball? What is Tommy John surgery? What pitcher surgeries are common? What is your degree in? What countries did you play poker tournaments in? What is the bureaucracy involved with baseball? Was it the coaches or the employees in professional baseball? What is the difference between traveling for fun vs. traveling for a goal? Why is the difference between being sincere and being serious? Why is ...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 10Ep. 13
