Neohuman

For the 90th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Dr. Pedro Domingos. Pedro is a Professor Emeritus of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. He is a researcher in machine learning known for Markov logic network enabling uncertain inference, and the author of The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, one of only two AI books on the bookshelf of China’s President for life, Xi Jinping, during his 2018 New Year speech.

Links: 

Pedro Domingos: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World: https://www.amazon.com/Master-Algorithm-Ultimate-Learning-Machine/dp/0465094279/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+master+algorithm&qid=1613263380&s=books&sr=1-1

Pedro Domingos – Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KOrhfVMAAAAJ&hl=en

We Must Stop Militant Liberals from Politicizing Artificial Intelligence: https://spectator.us/life/militant-liberals-politicizing-artificial-intelligence/

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For the 89th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Peter Ludlow. Peter, who also writes under the pseudonym Urizenus Sklar, is an American philosopher of language. He is noted for interdisciplinary work on the interface of linguistics and philosophy, and has worked on the application of analytic philosophy of language to topics in epistemology, metaphysics, and logic, among other areas. He has also established a research program outside of philosophy and linguistics. Here, his research areas include conceptual issues in cyberspace, particularly questions about cyber-rights and the emergence of laws and governance structures in and for virtual communities, including online games, and as such he is also noted for influential contributions to legal informatics. In recent years Ludlow has written nonacademic essays on hacktivist culture and related phenomena such as WikiLeaks.

Links: 

Peter Ludlow – MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/peter-ludlow

Peter Ludlow – The Nation: www.thenation.com/authors/peter-ludlow

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For the 88th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Chris Niebauer. Chris received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuropsychology from the University of Toledo where he specialized in left-right brain differences. He has conducted research on consciousness, handedness, beliefs and the sense of self and is currently an associate professor of cognitive psychology at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.

Links:

Chris’ YouTube:

www.youtube.com/chris5264

No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology is Catching Up to Buddhism: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PLRZVTT/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

The Neurotic’s Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment: How the Left-Brain Plays Unending Games of Self-Improvement: www.amazon.com/gp/product/1478700432/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

SRU Psychology Professor Authors Book on Enlightenment: www.sru.edu/news/080116a

Prevalence-Induced Concept Change in Human Judgment: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6396/1465

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For the 87th episode of NEOHUMAN podcast, Agah is chatting with author, philosopher, professor, and co-founder of the Alt-Right corporation, Jason Reza Jorjani. Jason/Reza is an Iranian-American philosopher and lifelong native New Yorker. He received his BA and MA at New York University, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Jorjani has taught courses on Science, Technology, and Society (STS), the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, and the history of Iran as a full-time faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. From October of 2016 through to his resignation in August of 2017, Dr. Jorjani was the Editor-in-Chief of Arktos Media and Co-Founder of the Alt-Right Corporation. Until his resignation in November of 2019, Dr. Jorjani was also a Senior Advisor to the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the Persian Renaissance Foundation. Most recently, Jorjani is the founder and leader of Prometheism, aka. The Prometheist Movement.

Links:

Jason Reza Jorjani: www.jasonrezajorjani.com

Prometheism: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08H5WCDR1/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

The Prometheist Movement: www.prometheism.com

Prometheus and Atlas: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C6HMEA8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2

Faustian Futurist: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08QBJ6ZL9/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

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For the 86th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Rizwan Virk. A graduate of MIT and Stanford, Rizwan is a successful entrepreneur, video game pioneer, film producer, venture capitalist and bestselling author. His software products have been used by the largest enterprises in the world, and his mobile games, including Tap Fish and Penny Dreadful: Demimonde, have been downloaded by millions of players. His indie films, including Thrive and Sirius, have been seen by millions of viewers worldwide.

Links: 

Rizwan Virk: www.zenentrepreneur.com

The simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are In a Video Game: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07M81F1KG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

Startup Myths and Models: What you Won’t Learn in Business School: www.amazon.com/gp/product/0231194528/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3

Zen Entrepreneurship: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CXJAH9A/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

Treasure Hunt: Follow Your Innter Clues to Find True Success: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NBXI85B/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2

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For the 85th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Peter Ludlow. Peter, who also writes under the pseudonym Urizenus Sklar, is an American philosopher of language. He is noted for interdisciplinary work on the interface of linguistics and philosophy, and has worked on the application of analytic philosophy of language to topics in epistemology, metaphysics, and logic, among other areas. He has also established a research program outside of philosophy and linguistics. Here, his research areas include conceptual issues in cyberspace, particularly questions about cyber-rights and the emergence of laws and governance structures in and for virtual communities, including online games, and as such he is also noted for influential contributions to legal informatics. In recent years Ludlow has written nonacademic essays on hacktivist culture and related phenomena such as WikiLeaks.

Links: 

Peter Ludlow – MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/peter-ludlow

Peter Ludlow – The Nation: www.thenation.com/authors/peter-ludlow

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For the 84th episode of NEOHUMAN Agah is chatting with Andrés Gómez Emilsson. Andrés is the co-founder and former president of the Stanford Transhumanist Association. He has an undergraduate degree on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science from Stanford, and a Masters in Computational Psychology, also at Stanford.

Links: 

Andrés Gómez Emilsson – IEET: www.ieet.org/index.php/IEET2/bio/emilsson

Qualia Research Institute: www.qualiaresearchinstitute.org/our-team

Qualia Computing: www.qualiacomputing.com

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For the 83rd episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with David Pearce. David is co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association, currently rebranded and incorporated as Humanity+, Inc., and a prominent figure within the transhumanism movement. He approaches ethical issues from a lexical negative utilitarian perspective.

Links: 

The Hedonistic Imperative: www.hedweb.com

David Pearce – H+pedia: www.hpluspedia.org/wiki/David_Pearce

The Hedonistic Imperative: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00SW3PKHA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1

Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering?: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B075MV9KS2/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

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For the 82rd episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with returning guests, David McFadzean and Willy “Fritz” Herold. David is a software and robotic engineer, the founder of Church of Virus, and the very first guest on NEOHUMAN. Fritz’s been an engineer, computer modeler, IT expert, and always on the “implementation and production side of the world”. 

Links: 

David McFadzean: www.github.com/macterra

Church of Virus: www.churchofvirus.org

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For the 81st episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Arash Sobhani. Arash is the founder, lead singer and songwriter of Kiosk, an underground Iranian rock band. Formed in Tehran in 2003, Kiosk was forced out of Iran because of its satirical lyrics which are often critical of the social and political environment under the Islamic regime. In addition to be an active musician, Arash is a TV host, a human rights activist, and one of the signatories of an open letter to then President-Elect Trump, urging Mr Trump ‘to send the clear message that the United States will not Tolerate the increasing threats of the Islamic Republic of Iran against its citizens and neighbors’, as well as ‘to support the pro-democracy Iranians whose goal is to replace the Khomeinist regime of Tehran with a liberal-democratic government’.

LINKS: 

Arash Sobhani – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arash_Sobhani

KIOSK Band: www.kiosktheband.com

Iranians unite in Twitter campaign over planned execution of 3 protesters, leading to retrial: www.abcnews.go.com/International/iranians-unite-twitter-protest-planned-executions-protestors/story?id=71806414

Arash Sobhani – Huffington Post: www.huffpost.com/author/arashsobhani-847

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