Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, explores why civilizations fall, what history gets wrong about collapse, and how distributed, cooperative societies have often thrived where empires failed.

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Jan Talon, Elon Musk, Genghis Khan, Niccolò Machiavelli, Andrew Carnegie, Francis Bacon, Harvey Whitehouse, Benedict Anderson, Audrey Tang, Edward Teller, Steve Bannon, Andrew Cuomo, Rudy Giuliani, Lot (biblical figure), King Tut, Jacob (biblical patriarch), Noah Yuval Harari

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Nate Soares, computer scientist and author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, discusses the existential risks posed by artificial intelligence, the possibility that untethered AI development can lead to catastrophic outcomes for humans, and what it might mean for AI development to outpace human control.

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Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News, brings perspective, humor, and humanism to the tragic and ridiculous phenomena unfolding in the world.

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