KMO Talks with Peter Clarke , author of the The Decadence Project Substack and The Singularity Survival Guide : How to Get on the Good Side of Your Future Robot Overlords . Topics include transhumanism, DIY biotechnology, cultural polarization, and the unexpected accessibility of genetic experimentation. They delve into mRNA vaccine developments, the "dissident right" movement, and metamodernism's blend of irony and sincerity. The conversation touches on the challenges of maintaining intellectua...
Sep 05, 2024•57 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast KMO talks with data scientist and neuro-philosopher, Tommy Blanchard and the current moment in artificial intelligence. They dive into a nuanced discussion about the potential impacts of artificial intelligence on society and the job market. Tommy offers a measured perspective on AI, arguing that while it will change many industries, mass unemployment is not inevitable. He draws parallels to past technological revolutions and suggests society will adapt. KMO provides some historical context, que...
Aug 27, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Doug Lain has been podcasting for 15 years. We talk about the early days of podcasting and how the scene has changed. As always happens when Doug and I get to talking, the conversation goes all over the place.
Jul 03, 2024•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast I've been comparing notes with Douglas Rushkoff about technology, memes, drugs and walking on the weird side for about 30 years. Not surprisingly, I remember the details better than he does. He talks to a LOT of people.
Jul 03, 2024•56 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast KMO inspired Doug Lain to get into podcasting 15 years ago. To mark the anniversary, Doug conducted a 15-hour YouTube livestream. KMO was the first guest of the day.
Apr 29, 2024•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast This episode includes a recording of the first 6 chapters of my novella, Last Train to Mordor . It is a prelude to my novel Fear and Loathing in the Kuiper Belt: Gen X Science Fiction . If you like the story and want to hear more, you can find the next chapter here ....
Apr 03, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast KMO reads of his recent Substack posts on what happens when discarded consumer electronics with embedded AI start to pile up. Who will find a use for that idle intelligence. Later, Jim from the Attack Ads! podcast shows up to discuss the points raised in the essays.
Feb 03, 2024•59 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast "A Few Notes on the Culture " is an essay by Iain M. Banks describing elements of the universe of the Culture series . Most topics pertain to the culture, society, and technology of the Culture. The cosmology of the universe is also described.I'd describe the Culture stories as being about a post-scarcity, post-capitalist, post-work, anarchist, socialist utopia, managed by benevolent superintelligent AI. The Culture novels explore what such a society might look like, and how people might live th...
Aug 12, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast KMO details how artificial intelligence unites the seemingly disparate stories around the Senate UAP hearings, the Hollywood writers and actors strike, and the Silicon Valley cult known as e/acc (effective accelerationism).
Aug 03, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast This is an addendum to episode 016, in which I read and responded to an email from Static Warp Shell trying to persuade me to listen to the Joe Rogan interview with Robert Kennedy Jr, and episode 018 in which I gave the same treatment to feedback from Tom, who voiced his frustration at the reflexively anti-authoritarian conspiracy-mongering around COVID which had driven a wedge between him and his wife. This episode mostly consists of a follow-up recording from Static Warp Shell. Static quoted f...
Jul 08, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Two weeks ago, I published an hour-long explanation as to why I have no interest in joining the cultural struggle over the COVID-19 pandemic or delve into the details of why some people refuse to take the mRNA vaccines. This week, I respond to another email from a long-time listener. This time the listener asked for support in denouncing "science denialism," a phrase I hate. I don't subscribe to any of the anti-authoritarian narratives around COVID, but the smug sanctimony of PMC Democrats who c...
Jul 05, 2023•52 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Both host and guest in this week's show once subscribed to idea that technological civilization would be collapsing in short order. Both have since moderated their views, but while KMO has repudiated any involvement with Doomerism, Christopher Harrison still thinks that the current technological, ecological, economic and political modes of societal operation are unworkable.
Jun 28, 2023•57 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Listeners have encouraged me to get invested in the cultural contest between defenders of the establishment's account of COVID-19 and the mRNA vaccines and those who gravitate to a darker interpretation of events. Wrapped up in the ideological antagonism is the presidential candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.. I will not be investing my time or attention in that struggle. In this episode of the podcast I explain why.To illustrate my points, I read from The Citadel of the Autarch by Gene Wolfe an...
Jun 21, 2023•44 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Chris Cutrone is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Art History, Theory and Criticism and Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author of a trio of infamous essays published on the Platypus Affiliated Society that begins with Why Not Trump? He is also the author of The Death of the Millennial Left, published by Sublation Media ....
Jun 14, 2023•56 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast There has always been a psychological element to warfare but in the 21st century the tactics used by military geniuses to control the behavior of their adversaries have now been coopted by governments, corporations, ideologies, and the general public in order to wage psychological warfare against you. Kaleb Gorman, author of Psychwars: Self-Defence Against Psyops, Propaganda, and Mind Control , joins KMO to discuss why we are susceptible to such manipulation and how best to resist it....
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Dermot O'Connor is an animator, author, teacher, podcaster and voracious reader. This episode is the middle part of a conversation that started in C-Realm Vault Podcast #456 and concluded on a YouTube livestream . You can find more of Dermot's content on his website , YouTube channel and podcast ....
May 25, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast In a New York Times editorial, Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts and Jeffrey Watumull argue that ChatGPT and similar generative chatbots do not exhibit "true intelligence." They also argue that the current fixation of large language models is preventing the development of artificial general intelligence. KMO explores alternative definitions of intelligence.
May 19, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast KMO talks with Pi, the most advanced AI chatbot he has encountered to date.
May 11, 2023•34 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Reporter, author, games publisher , soldier and president of the Gnosis Project , Michael O. Varhola, describes why he traveled to Ukraine to do what he could to help the Ukrainian people. The conversation begins with Michael's first-hand account then moves to a geopolitical and cultural examination. KMO ends with his usual call for epistemological humility.
May 03, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast KMO welcomes his old friend and Z-Realm Podcast co-host, Marty , to the KMO show ostensibly to talk about HBO's adaptation of The Last of Us, but the conversation ranges all over the genre media landscape with extra praise heaped on Andor, Station Eleven, Black Summer, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Go, Goa, Gone. Marty has less than glowing things to say about The Mandalorian and KMO gushes over Farscape in the outro....
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of the KMO Show, KMO and Kevin Wohlmut delve into the complex world of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential dangers and consequences on our lives. They discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky's seventeen reasons why AI is more dangerous than nuclear weapons and consider the different types of dangers posed by AI compared to nuclear weapons. The conversation touches on the role of AI in everyday life, specifically in the context of social media and chatbots, and the potential conseque...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast KMO speaks with data scientist Danielle Boccelli about the possibilities and limitations of learning strictly from language. The topic is large language models, but this conversation was recorded before the announced release of GPT-4. So much of what we know and what we are is not encoded in language, so there's only so far AI can progress without learning from something other than just text scraped from the internet. Episode Title: AI and Large Language Models: Bridging the Gap between Public D...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast KMO talks with Dr. Ashley Frawley about how dope the 1990s were and how civilization has only degenerated since then. Other topics include the authoritarian tendencies of the Left, how HR speak and the excesses of identitarian politics should not be confused with the Left, and how "Health & Safety" has become the new "Law & Order." At the end, KMO rants about AI and NASA's next moon mission.
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Bryan Cheong, a machine learning engineer, joins KMO for a mostly non-technical discussion of large language models, reinforcement learning from human feedback, the democratizing potential of the current moment in artificial intelligence, and why your shouldn't get attached to a centrally-controlled AI companion when you can make and run your own decentralized version.
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast KMO and RU Sirius reminisce about the role that magazines used to play in the culture and in our lives. The trends that make up the focus of this podcast have been on-going for decades, and much of what informed Mondo2000 magazine in the 80s and 90s goes back to the 1960s cultural revolution. RU Sirius has been on the scene from then until now, documenting, commenting, fomenting revolution and picking up the pieces when things didn't go the way he and his follow reality hackers envisioned....
Mar 22, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast KMO does not have strong opinions about the Twitter files, but Doug Lain sure does, and he's naming names and calling out cowards on the mainstream left. He thinks that elements of the federal government have colluded with Big Tech to censor and marginalize voices both from the Right and from the Marxist Left.
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast KMO and Professor Rob Brooks, author of Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers , talk about AI as a means of alleviating the human suffering that comes with social isolation and loneliness. In particular, Rob comments on KMO's experience using the Replika AI app both before and after the recent "update" in which the company took away ERP (erotic roleplay functionality). KMO spoke with Rob Brooks last year on the Padverb Podcast ....
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast In this inaugural episode of the KMO Show, KMO, Michael Garfield of the Future Fossils podcast and mutual friend, Kevin Wohlmut , discuss the dawning of the epistemological apocalypse. Thanks to AI, we can't really trust our eyes or our ears anymore. Deep faked images and voices can produce "evidence" that people said and did things they never said or did. How do we select our reality tunnels when almost anything can be faked in real time? Do we give up on truth seeking and just believe whatever...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast An introduction to and an explanation for the re-branding. KMO has been podcasting since 2006 under the C-Realm banner. Why mess with an established brand? Listen in and find out.
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