Monday, April 09, 2012

Sentient Developments Episode 2012.04.09

Sentient Developments Podcast for the week of April 9, 2012. Topics discussed in this week's episode:
  • My recap of the Moral Brain conference
  • A review of the attention my Dyson Sphere article is getting
  • A summary of my recent appearance on the al-Jazeera show, The Stream
Tracks used in this episode:
  • Orbital: "Straight Sun"
  • Bear in Heaven: "The Reflection of You"
  • Modeselektor: "Berlin"
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Monday, April 02, 2012

Sentient Developments Episode 2012.04.02

Sentient Developments Podcast for the week of April 2, 2012.
Topics for this week's episode: J. Hughes on democratic transhumanism, personhood theory, and AI; making brains: reverse engineering the human brain to achieve AI; Ben Goertzel and Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Singularity and timelines for AI; could a computer virus merge with a human virus?; and transhumanism meets the 'intelligence principle.'

Tracks used in this episode:
  • Meshuggah: "Behind the Sun"
  • Modeselektor: "Green Light Go"
  • Boards of Canada: "Aquarius"
  • Grimes: "Eight"
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Sentient Developments Episode 2012.03.26

Sentient Developments Podcast for the week of March 26, 2012.
Topics for this week's episode: How to build a Dyson sphere in five (relatively) easy steps, how to take over the Galaxy with self-replicating probes, the Fermi Paradox, and the Simulation Argument.


Tracks used in this episode:
  • Beach House: "Myth"
  • Keep Shelly in Athens: "Our Own Dream"
  • Rose Cousins: "One Way"
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Sentient Developments Episode 2012.03.19

Sentient Developments Podcast for the week of March 19, 2012.
Topics for this week's episode: Raising IQ with creatine and Double N-Back Training, the red meat scare, destroying asteroids with nukes, re-engineering humans to deal with climate change, the Fermi Paradox, and the ongoing perils to democracy.

Tracks used in this episode:
  • Soft Metals: "The Cold World Waits"
  • The Knife: "Marble House"
  • Zed's Dead: "Pyramid Song" (remix)
  • Evy Jane: "Sayso"
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