The Rhys Show

Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and public speaker. He is the author of the excellent books Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes and Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan.

We chat about the Muslim view of history and how that informs our understanding of the US pull out from Afghanistan.

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13394802-destiny-disrupted

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Susan Blackmore is a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth who researches consciousness, memes, and anomalous experiences. She wrote the excellent book, The Meme Machine. Sue, thanks for being on the show and welcome!

We chat about genes, memes, and the third replicator, tremes.

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César Hidalgo is a Chilean-Spanish-American scholar in economic complexity, data visualization, and applied artificial intelligence. He’s written some great books that we chat about today like Why Information Grows and How Humans Judge Machines.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

2:10 How to represent ideas visually

5:45 What makes something a great visualization?

7:30 What is the through-line of your work?

10:30 How the printing press changed who can be famous

13:20 What messages are optimized for the internet?

16:30 Using the internet for governance

22:10 What are new network-native institutions?

26:55 How Humans Judge Machines?

31:20 Judging institutions on intentions vs. outcomes

36:30 How do humans judge machines on Haidt's moral foundations?

41:20 How did you give the book away for free as a pdf?

46:00 Connecting the physics of information to the geography of knowledge

51:30 Check out Center for Collective Learning

Grace Lindsay is a computational neuroscientist who recently wrote the book "Models of the Mind: How physics, engineering and mathematics" have shaped our understanding of the brain.

It was a delightful book and we dive into how these mathematical lenses help us understand the brain.

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Andy Clark is a British philosopher and a Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He’s written some great books on humans as cyborgs, extended cognition, and most recently Surfing Uncertainty, on predictive processing.

We chat about how brains model the world.

Job opportunity with Andy: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/research-fellow-xscape-ref-6023

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Casper ter Kuile is helping to build a world of joyful belonging in the midst of enormous changes in how we experience community and spirituality. He’s the author of The Power of Ritual, a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, a co-host of the award-winning podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, and the co-founder of the startup Sacred Design Lab.

We discuss the future of meaning and religion.

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I discuss: There Is A Level 5, Cultural Progress Studies, Predictive Processing, Internet Annotations.

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Isabella Garcia-Camargo works at Stanford’s Internet Observatory as a research analyst and the project manager for two amazing projects: the Election Integrity Partnership and the Virality Project.

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https://www.viralityproject.org/

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adrienne maree brown is an author, doula, women's rights activist and black feminist based in Detroit, Michigan. We chat about bottom-up movement organizing from her book Emergent Strategy.

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Kevin Kelly has a variety of interesting pursuits. He is the Senior Maverick for Wired, which he helped co-found 28 years ago. He is the author of several books on technological evolution like What Technology Wants. He is also an excellent photographer and is kickstarting a massive photo book, Vanishing Asia.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kk-org/vanishing-asia

https://www.recomendo.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7954936-what-technology-wants

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