Episodes

  • Ada Palmer on Inventing the Renaissance: How Golden and Dark Ages Are Constructed and Why They Matter

    Ada Palmer on Inventing the Renaissance: How Golden and Dark Ages Are Constructed and Why They Matter
    Feb 15 2026
    Was the Renaissance truly a Golden Age? Or was it something far more powerful — and far more revealing? In my third conversation with Ada Palmer, we dive into her new book, Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age, and dismantle one of the most enduring myths in Western history: that civilization moves cleanly […]
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    3 hrs and 2 mins
  • Graham Priest on Dialetheism, True Contradictions, the Liar Paradox & Why Classical Logic Isn’t Enough

    Graham Priest on Dialetheism, True Contradictions, the Liar Paradox & Why Classical Logic Isn’t Enough
    Feb 12 2026
    What if some contradictions are not mistakes — but truths? For over 2,500 years, Western philosophy has treated contradiction as catastrophic. From Aristotle’s law of non-contradiction to modern formal systems, logic has operated under one sacred assumption: a statement cannot be both true and false. But what if that assumption is wrong? In this deep, […]
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    2 hrs and 50 mins
  • Breaking: Did Integral AI’s Jad Tarifi Just Announce AGI?

    Breaking: Did Integral AI’s Jad Tarifi Just Announce AGI?
    Dec 8 2025
    In my latest Singularity.FM conversation with Dr. Jad Tarifi, CEO of Integral AI, I heard something I don’t say lightly: a credible claim that AGI may have just arrived — or at least the foundation of it. I don’t often say “Wow” during interviews, but in this one I simply couldn’t stop. Tarifi describes a […]
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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • Jacob Ward on The Loop, AI, and a World Without Real Choices

    Jacob Ward on The Loop, AI, and a World Without Real Choices
    Nov 29 2025
    What happens to free will in a world where AI tells us what to watch, buy, believe, and even who to love? In this new episode of Singularity.FM, I sit down with Jacob Ward — veteran technology journalist and author of The Loop: How AI Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight […]
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Robot Souls & Junk Code: Dr. Eve Poole on Programming Humanity into AI

    Robot Souls & Junk Code: Dr. Eve Poole on Programming Humanity into AI
    Nov 16 2025
    Are we building better versions of ourselves in AI – or a master race of very efficient psychopaths? In this new episode of Singularity.FM, I sit down with Dr. Eve Poole, theologian, leadership scholar, and author of Robot Souls: Programming in Humanity, to ask a simple yet brutal question: what makes us human, and what happens if we […]
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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • Petter Törnberg on Algorithmic Tyranny, the Rise of Digital Modernity and Seeing Like a Platform

    Petter Törnberg on Algorithmic Tyranny, the Rise of Digital Modernity and Seeing Like a Platform
    Sep 29 2025
    What do Facebook, Google, and TikTok see when they look at us — and what do they miss? In this episode of Singularity.FM, I sit down with Petter Törnberg, Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Amsterdam and co-author of Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity. Törnberg […]
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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • The World’s a Circus | Nikola Danaylov Keynote at St. John’s Circus Fest 2025

    The World’s a Circus | Nikola Danaylov Keynote at St. John’s Circus Fest 2025
    Sep 25 2025
    What if the world isn’t just a stage… but a circus? 🎪 In this opening keynote at St. John’s International Circus Fest 2025, futurist and philosopher Nikola Danaylov (aka Socrates) explores why context is more powerful than content — and why those who create context don’t just win attention, they shape the future. 👉 Themes […]
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Adam Becker on More Everything Forever and Big Tech’s Future Myths

    Adam Becker on More Everything Forever and Big Tech’s Future Myths
    Jul 4 2025
    Adam Becker is a science journalist with a PhD in astrophysics and the author of the provocative new book More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity. I reached out to Adam because I found his book sharp, timely, and necessary — a long-overdue reality check […]
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    2 hrs and 9 mins