What are the implications of recent developments in code- and image-generating AI? What is the difference between intelligence and consciousness? What impact do these developments have on the open-source community? How will this affect developer jobs?

Test Driven Development in the Age of AI: https://youtu.be/kBIr46RNxVI

DALL.E: https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/ GLIDE: https://syncedreview.com/2021/12/24/deepmind-podracer-tpu-based-rl-frameworks-deliver-exceptional-performance-at-low-cost-173/ AlphaFold: https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/ AlphaCode: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/article/Competitive-programming-with-AlphaCode GitHub Co-Pilot: https://copilot.github.com/ GPT-3: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 Helen Keller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller Michio Kaku: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Kaku Douglas Hofstadter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter Terrence McKenna on Intuition: https://www.post-wave.com/21-terence-mckenna Jest: https://github.com/facebook/jest Enzyme: https://enzymejs.github.io/enzyme/ Web Vitals: https://web.dev/vitals/ Embrace Extend Extinguish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Outro Music by Trevor Villwock

What does it mean to exist? We explore Plato’s theory of ideas and his Republic.

Plato Republic: https://youtu.be/rVxSoiHtovM

Sophie’s World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_World

Stephen Wolfram heat death of the universe: https://youtu.be/kuFRyOwkYuE

Universal wavefunction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_wavefunction#:~:text=The%20universal%20wave%20function%20is,times%20a%20deterministic%20wave%20equation.%22

Bohr’s atom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr

Alan Watts quote: https://youtu.be/-VzLBkmeW8E

Steven Pinker – The Better Angels of Our Nature: https://stevenpinker.com/publications/better-angels-our-nature

Iain McGilchrist episode: https://www.post-wave.com/49-divided-brain

Who were the Stoics, what did they believe about the world, and how can we apply it to life today?

References:

Marcus Aurelius - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcus-aurelius/

Hunter-gatherers and happiness - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/01/551018759/are-hunter-gatherers-the-happiest-humans-to-inhabit-earth

Dzogchen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzogchen

Music by Trevor Villwock

update: oh no! I accidentally bungled the conversion and only uploaded the last 2 minutes of this episode. Here's the full episode! (should be fixed now).

What is the self? Am I a different person than you are? How can we engender compassion in ourselves? Trevor & Eric discuss enlightenment as talked about by Ram Dass – philosopher, psychologist, luminary.

Ram Dass lecture: https://youtu.be/kjh1BAG5Pfs

Dzogchen Buddhism - https://www.shambhala.com/snowlion_articles/the-practice-of-dzogchen/

Timothy Leary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary

Terrence McKenna: https://www.post-wave.com/21-terence-mckenna

Ted Achocoso: https://www.post-wave.com/47-analysis-dr-ted-achacoso

Alan Watts: https://www.post-wave.com/episode-10-alan-watts-this-is-it

Peterson Dillahunty debate: https://www.post-wave.com/55-religion-and-morality

Incompleteness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems

Outro Music by Trevor Villwock

How should we feel about billionaires pursuing space exploration when there's so much wrong on earth?

References:

Billionaire tax rates - https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

Culture series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series

Lex Fridman's conversation with Neal Stephenson - https://youtu.be/xAfdSak2fs8

Sabine Hossenfelder on terraforming Mars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb0UnogKQeo

Spinlaunch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAczd3mt3X0

Largest comet ever discovered - https://www.space.com/newfound-comet-biggest-recorded-history

World's richest people 2021 - https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Elon Musk helping fight world hunger - https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/11/1052719247/how-6-billion-from-elon-musk-could-feed-millions-on-the-brink-of-famine

Percentage of U.S. who are independents - https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

We are joined by special guest Walker T. Roman to continue our discussion of abstraction, this time in the context of art and music.

References:

Walker T. Roman: https://www.walkertroman.com/

Lascaux cave paintings: https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/lascaux/ Isometric perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_projection Vermeer optics: https://arranqhenderson.com/2017/09/19/did-vermeer-use-optics-in-his-art/ Danielle: http://www.daniellemulcahy.com/ Origins of Kindergarten: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/little-history-american-kindergartens-180963263/#:~:text=Kindergarten%20itself%20is%20a%20German,in%201837%20in%20Blankenburg%2C%20Germany. Jackson Pollock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock Clement Greenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Greenberg Isorhythm: https://www.britannica.com/art/isorhythm#:~:text=isorhythm%2C%20in%20music%2C%20the%20organizing,around%201900%20by%20the%20German Serialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialism

Trevor's music: https://soundcloud.com/trevor-villwock Eric's music: https://soundcloud.com/faero

In this episode we discuss the various forms of immortality humanity could possibly achieve and their implications for meaning and purpose in life.

References:

Sean Carroll on time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAScJvxCy2Y

Roy (Rick & Morty) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szzVlQ653as

Simulation argument (Nick Bostrom) - https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

Possible evidence for a multiverse - https://www.quantamagazine.org/multiverse-proof-possibility-from-colliding-universes-20141110/

This is the first in a two-part series in which we discuss the topic of abstraction. In this episode we focus on the term as it relates to computer science, existentialism, and music.

Max MSP: https://cycling74.com/ Dorris McComics: https://dorrismccomics.com/ Infinite Jest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest Finnigan's Wake by James Joyce: Wassily Kandinsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky Terence McKenna Episode: https://www.post-wave.com/21-terence-mckenna The Double by Dostoevsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_(Dostoevsky_novel) Donald Hoffman Episode: https://www.post-wave.com/episode-5-is-what-we-see-reality-donald-hoffman erowid: https://www.erowid.org/ Yes: http://www.yesworld.com/ The Mars Volta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2puUdO4YBg&ab_channel=TannerBarker Tally Hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjGzOJ5IiSM&ab_channel=TallyHall-Topic The Well Tempered Clavier by Bach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0ufknMW0FI&ab_channel=RiqueBorges Reggaeton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxFSBPHwKgY&ab_channel=OSOCITYNATION

Music by Trevor Villwock: https://soundcloud.com/trevor-villwock/lattice-for-climbing