This episode of the Worthy Successor series features Weaver Weinbaum, an independent researcher and founder of NUNET. Weaver’s work sits at the intersection of philosophy, engineering, and the study of…

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Francis Heylighen, a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and director of the Research Centre St. Leo…

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is a conversation with Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language, and a physicist…

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with John Smart, Director of the EvoDevo Institute and a longtime futures theorist whose work spans accelerating change, developmental…

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is a conversation with Dr. Susan Schneider, a philosopher of mind and consciousness researcher whose work focuses on AI consciousness, mind uploading,…

This installment of the Worthy Successor series is a conversation with Brian Thomas Swimme, a cosmologist and philosopher of science, and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies…

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with David Sloan Wilson – an American evolutionary biologist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton…

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Michael Johnson, a philosopher and neuroscientist who describes himself as working on “how to turn consciousness into a…

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Robin Hanson – economist and author, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a former Research…

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Joe Carlsmith, a senior advisor at Open Philanthropy, whose work spans AI alignment, moral uncertainty, and the philosophical…