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Currents 098: Damien Walter on Science Fiction and the Rhetoric of Story
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- Damien Walter (website)
- Damien Walter (Substack)
- Damien Walter (Medium)
- The Rhetoric of Story course
- “The Truth of Myth: JRR Tolkien and the return of the mythos,” by Damien Walter
- JRS EP 188 – Robert Tercek on Intellectual Property in the Time of AI
- The Humane Use of Human Beings, by Norbert Weiner
- JRS EP143 – John Vervaeke Part 1: Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
- JRS EP 185 – Daniel Suarez on the Near Future of Space Exploration
- There Is No Antimemetics Division, by qntm
- Termination Shock, by Neal Stephenson
Damien Walter is a writer and a storyteller who has written for The Guardian, the BBC, Wired, The Independent, Aeon, and others. He teaches The Rhetoric of Story and Writing the 21st-Century Myth to over 35,000 students worldwide, and is the host of the Science Fiction Podcast.
EP 189 Forrest Landry on Civilization Design
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- JRS EP31 – Forrest Landry on Building our Future
- JRS EP96 – Forrest Landry on Immanent Metaphysics: Part 1
- JRS EP109 – Forrest Landry on Immanent Metaphysics: Part 2
- JRS EP128 – Forrest Landry on Immanent Metaphysics: Part 3
- JRS EP134 – Forrest Landry on Non-Relative Ethics
- JRS EP153 – Forrest Landry on Small Group Method
- JRS EP181 – Forrest Landry Part 1: AI Risk
- JRS EP183 – Forrest Landry Part 2: AI Risk
Forrest Landry is a philosopher, writer, researcher, scientist, engineer, craftsman, and teacher focused on metaphysics, the manner in which software applications, tools, and techniques influence the design and management of very large scale complex systems, and the thriving of all forms of life on this planet. Forrest is also the founder and CEO of Magic Flight, a third-generation master woodworker who found that he had a unique set of skills in large-scale software systems design. Which led him to work in the production of several federal classified and unclassified systems, including various FBI investigative projects, TSC, IDW, DARPA, the Library of Congress Congressional Records System, and many others.
Currents 097: Frank Lantz on Network Wars and Games
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- Network Wars on the App Store
- Network Wars on Google Play
- The Beauty of Games, by Frank Lantz (forthcoming)
- Characteristics of Games, by Richard Garfield & Skaff Elias
Frank Lantz is a game designer with a focus on exploring emerging technology to create new kinds of gameplay. He is the Founding Chair of the NYU Game Center, the co-founder of Area/Code Games (acquired by Zynga in 2011), the co-founder of Everybody House Games and the creator of the game Universal Paperclips. He has taught game design for over 20 years at New York University, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts and has created numerous influential talks and writings on the subject of games. His book The Beauty of Games will be published by MIT Press in October of 2023.
EP 188 Robert Tercek on Intellectual Property in the Time of AI
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- The Owner’s Guide to the Future (Substack)
- The Futurists Podcast
- JRS EP142 – Robert Tercek on the Metaverse
- JRS EP139 – Robert Tercek on Education Today
- JRS EP133 – Robert Tercek on Digital Strategies
- “ScriptHelper-001: an experimental GPT-4 based Movie Script Writing Program,” by Jim Rutt (Medium)
Robert Tercek is a global authority on the process of dematerialization and digital innovation. He is an award-winning author, entrepreneur, and educator. He is highly sought as a keynote speaker at international conferences, and he is the co-host of The Futurists podcast. Tercek is the founder and CEO of General Creativity, a consulting agency that specializes in digital transformation and long-term strategic planning. Previously, he served in senior executive leadership roles at motion picture studios, television networks, and software companies, where he supervised the launch of pioneering digital services that are now used by hundreds of millions of people every day.
Currents 096: Jim & Michael Garfield Talk About Everything
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Jim has an extremely wide-ranging discussion with Michael Garfield. They discuss the upcoming book Michael is drafting in public, the exponential scaling of information production, Jurassic Park, mass distributed computation, a new topology for social connectivity, info agents, stereotyping & police violence, a dehumanizing pace of human interaction, Charles Stross’s prophetic visions, heuristic induction, strong vs weak social links, restoration of the mesoscale, from the geographic polity to the noetic, the importance of the ground layer, semi-permeable membranes with commons inside them, Pokemon Go & behavioral control, generative AI & intellectual property, creating a commons to benefit culture, circular economies, dividend money & usury, high-temperature search, a future of childlike play, and much more.
Michael will be hosting an interactive course with Jeremy Johnson, titled “Jurassic Worlding,” beginning on July 18. Those interested should keep an eye on NuraLearning.com.
Join the Jurassic Park book club and help Michael research and workshop his next book, Jurassic Worlding: A Palaeontology of The Present, at Michael’s Substack.
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- Michael Garfield on Substack
- Subconscious (Substack)
- “The Singularity In Our Past Light-Cone,” by Cosma Shalizi
- Accelerando, by Charles Stross (free online version)
- “Declaration for The Independence of Cyberspace,” by John Perry Barlow
- John Danaher Interviews Erin Neely on Augmented Reality, Ethics, and Property Rights (Algocracy and Transhumanism Podcast)
- “The Evolution of Surveillance,” by Michael Garfield
- “Terra Nullius,” by Cory Doctorow
- Future Fossils Reading List
- Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I. (Complexity Podcast)
- JRS EP130 – Ken Stanley on Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
EP 187 Carlos Perez on A Pattern Language for Generative AI
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- A Pattern Language for Generative AI: A Self-Generating GPT-4 Blueprint, by Carlos Perez
- “ScriptHelper-001: an experimental GPT-4 based Movie Script Writing Program,” by Jim Rutt
- Artificial Intuition: The Improbable Deep Learning Revolution, by Carlos Perez
- Deep Learning AI Playbook: Strategy for Disruptive Artificial Intelligence, by Carlos Perez
- Artificial Empathy: A Roadmap for Human-Aligned Artificial Intelligence, by Carlos Perez
Carlos E. Perez is a seasoned software architect and developer with 30 years of experience in bringing software systems from concept to production. He has authored books on Artificial Intuition, Fluency, and Empathy, with a primary focus on applying semiotic methods in Deep Learning. Carlos holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and has U.S. patents in expert systems and social networks.
EP 186 Charles Eisenstein on Climate: A New Story
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- Climate: A New Story, by Charles Eisenstein
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Campaign Website
- JRS Currents 010: Tyson Yunkaporta on Humans As Custodial Species
- Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition, by Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, public speaker, and author who examines the unspoken narratives that direct our society and our lives. His work covers a wide range of topics, including the history of human civilization, consciousness, economics, spirituality, interdependence, ecology, and how myth and story influence culture. He is the author of The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible, Sacred Economics, and The Ascent of Humanity.
Currents 095: Matt Welsh on the End of Programming
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- “The End of Programming,” by Matt Welsh (Communications of the ACM)
- Fixie.ai
- Etched.ai
- GitHub Copilot
Matt Welsh is CEO and Co-Founder at Fixie.ai, a startup building a new computing platform based on Large Language Models. Prior to Fixie, Matt was the SVP of Engineering at OctoML, and spent time as an engineering leader at Apple, Xnor.ai, and Google. He was previously a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and did his PhD in Computer Science at UC Berkeley.
Currents 094: Matthew Pirkowski on Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms
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- JRS Currents 066: Matthew Pirkowski on Emergence in Possibility Space
- “Dividend Money: An Alternative to Central Banker Managed Fractional Reserve Banking Money,” by Jim Rutt (lecture)
Matthew Pirkowski works at the intersection of software, psychology, and complex systems. These interests first took root while studying Evolutionary Psychology and assisting with Behavioral Economic research at Yale’s Comparative Cognition Laboratory. From there Matthew began a career in software engineering, where he applied these interests to the development of software interfaces used by millions around the world, most notably as a member of Netflix’s Television UI team, where he worked on experimental initiatives conceptualizing and prototyping the future of entertainment software.
Presently, Matthew is building the underlying modeling architecture at Bioform Labs, a company focused on using the Active Inference toolkit to model organizations as emergent cybernetic organisms. He believes these models can help organizations manage their deployment of and interaction with AI-based agents, as well as more adaptively manage their own emergent complexity.