AMA | May 2021

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold," wrote W.B. Yeats. I don't know about the centre, but the tendency of things to fall apart is pretty universal, ultimately due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Anyone living in a society or involved with technology must therefore be ... Show More

At any given moment, an uncountable number of events are happening, but only some of them matter to us. What does it mean for something to matter, and more importantly, what does it mean for us to matter -- to ourselves as well as to others? The need to matter can be motivation t ... Show More

It's become increasingly clear that the Turing Test -- determining whether human interlocutors can tell whether a conversation is being carried out by a human or a machine -- is not a good way to think about consciousness. Modern LLMs can mimic human conversation with extraordina ... Show More

We're away for a few weeks for the summer holidays but we didn't want to leave you with nothing to listen to. So we've put together some of the questions we get asked the MOST, that we've answered before and put them all together in this bonus episode. Enjoy! x 📸Instagram – @the ... Show More

We've gotten so many emails with listener problems that we're devoting yet another episode to solving them. Just goes to show you what great guys we are. We also have a discussion about the Mandela Effect, which includes some pretty solid Ed McMahon content for all the McMahon-he ... Show More

We're back recording in the same room together for the first time in over a year, so we decided to cover a topic that would get us all riled up. This week we're talking about the richest people in history, who coincidentally also happen to be the biggest sociopaths ever.Advertise ... Show More

In this special episode to end the year we answer to 22 questions about what can happen in 2022 and what happened in 2021. About what? Well, transfers, of course! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sel ... Show More

<p>In this Q&amp;A session from his legendary 1974 Naropa University course, Ram Dass answers questions about the Bhagavad Gita, the trap of meditation, dealing with loneliness, and more.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Today's podcast is sponsored by</strong>&nbsp;<strong>BetterHelp. Click ... Show More

<p>Let&apos;s see what 2023 brings.<br/><b><br/>Support the show and help us grow and stay as independent as possible while earning plenty of bonuses - Discord community, early episodes, exclusive bonus episodes, QnAs and plenty more. Link: https://www.patreon.com/TheDeprogram</b ... Show More

In this Inbetweenasode, Ali answers various questions relating to motivation, productivity, time management and that sort of stuff. It's a bit cheeky because we didn't record a proper episode, but given the need for consistency, we thought we'd repurpose one of his old YouTube vi ... Show More