Episode #339
Jacob Ward
Books mentioned
Bhagavad Gita
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The World Without Us
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Jacob Ward, editor of Popular Science magazine, discusses the publication’s shift to digital media and examines topics including artificial intelligence, data privacy, brain research, consciousness, addiction, and human evolution. The conversation also covers animal intelligence, captivity ethics, sensory deprivation, psychedelics, psychic phenomena, robotics, military technology, environmental change, internet culture, and fear.
What they talked about
- Samsung vs. Apple and Steve Jobs
- Google self-driving cars and DARPA
- Visual search and data triangulation
- The future of social media and writing
- Brain differences and savants
- Sensory deprivation tanks and psychedelics
- Dolphin intelligence and captivity
- Remote viewing and psychic research
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