The Joe Walker Podcast

By Joe WalkerSociety & Culture

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April 26, 2018 AI And Existential Risk - Huw Price
What are human existential risks and why does Artificial Intelligence rank as one of the most menacing? At...
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43 min
April 25, 2018 #45: AI and Existential Risk - Huw Price
What are human existential risks and why does Artificial Intelligence rank as one of the most menacing?
43 min
April 18, 2018 Electricity Shared - Jemma Green
Dr Jemma Green is the Co-founder and Chair of Power Ledger. Dr Green began her career as an...
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38 min
April 17, 2018 #44: Electricity Shared - Jemma Green
Dr Jemma Green is the Co-founder and Chair of Power Ledger. Dr Green began her career as an investment banker in London, working for JP Morgan. While based in the UK she completed a Masters of Sustainability Leadership at Cambridge University. After returning to her home town in Perth, Australia, she completed a doctorate on Renewable Energy at Curtain University before founding Power Ledger.
Power Ledger uses blockchain technology to enable the transition to low cost, low carbon and resilient distributed energy markets. It allows private citizens to buy and sell fractionalised energy on a peer-to-peer basis. In October 2017 Power Ledger held Australia's first ICO (Initial Coin Offering) and raised $34 million.
Join us as we discuss how Power Ledger is changing the way we use electricity, what the hectic weeks of the ICO involved and how Jemma came to be in Richard Branson's pool on Necker Island!
Show Notes:
- Check our Powerledger.io
- The infamous picture of Richard Branson's 'bommie'!
- View the Power Ledger Whitepaper
38 min
April 11, 2018 The Number That Rules Humanity - Robin Dunbar
You only have 150 friends. How do we know that? Because that is Dunbar's number. Robin Dunbar is...
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53 min
April 10, 2018 #43: The Number That Rules Humanity - Robin Dunbar
You only have 150 friends. How do we know that? Because that is Dunbar’s number.
Robin Dunbar is a British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist at the University of Oxford. His research proved the rule that 150 people is the ‘point beyond which members of any social group lose their ability to function effectively in social relationships.’
Neolithic farming communities, Roman military armies and even global manufacturer Gore-Tex subscribe to Dunbar’s number.
In this episode, we speak to Robin about what his research tells us about how we interact with one another, why maintaining relationships means different things for men and women, and how Dunbar’s number fits in with the law of threes.
Show Notes:
- How Many Friends Does One Peron Need? - Robin Dunbar
- Evolutionary Psychology - A Beginner's Guide - Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett
- Thinking Big - Robin Dunbar
52 min
April 04, 2018 Going Paleo - Pete Evans
Pete Evans is a world-renowned chef, restauranteur and co-host of hit TV show, My Kitchen Rules - he...
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1 hr 30 min
April 03, 2018 #42: Going Paleo - Pete Evans
Pete Evans is a world-renowned chef, restauranteur and co-host of hit TV show, My Kitchen Rules – he is also no stranger to controversy.
Pete is a strong advocate of the ‘paleo diet’, which excludes sugar, processed carbohydrates and dairy - he has also received criticism for his views on fluoride in water.
In this laid-back, long-form chat, we unpick truth from fiction and uncover Pete’s philosophy on life and how he aims to get the most out of it. Hint: it isn’t by worrying about what other people think.
1 hr 30 min
March 31, 2018 Did The Cold War Ever End? - Kim Beazley
The Hon Kim Beazley AC is a former Leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the...
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44 min
March 28, 2018 #41: Did The Cold War Ever End? - Kim Beazley
The Hon Kim Beazley AC is a former Leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition (1996-2001; 2005-6) and Ambassador to the US (2010-16). His parliamentary career ran from 1980 to 2007, during which he held a number of cabinet positions in the Hawke-Keating governments. He is widely regarded as one of Australia’s greatest Defence Ministers (1984-90). Kim is also a graduate of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
In this episode, we join Kim to tackle the issues of Putin’s belligerence, whether the Cold War ever really ended, and what we should do about it. We could think of no greater expert than the Bomber to answer these questions!
Show Notes:
- The Lost Leader (Poem)
- Putin's Address to the Federal Assembly
- Keating: Western Leaders Blew the Chance for Peace
44 min