Matt Mireles built an app so far ahead of its time it melted iPhones, including one in Sam Altman's hand, mid-pitch. Now he builds alone, with a staff of AI clones. "Intelligence is not the limiting factor. It's courage." Episode 18 @mattmireles

Robert Breedlove has spent years thinking about what money actually is. His argument: it's not really about investment. Money is the language of human action. And sound money is what stops states from financing perpetual war. Episode 2 @Breedlove22

Philip Rosedale built Second Life into a $750M-a-year virtual economy. He also ran a simulation that showed pure free markets always end the same way: wealth concentrates, then collapses. What he proposes instead might surprise you. Episode 1 @philiprosedale

Cameron Berg founded a nonprofit that does the empirical work most AI labs won't touch: asking whether the systems we're building are actually conscious, and what we owe them if they are. His own probability estimate that they already are? 25 to 35 percent. Episode 8 @CamHBerg

Ginevra Lily Davis makes the case for positively-valenced consciousness: that any sufficiently intelligent system will discover it. Our favorite one-line take on Yudkowsky: "Yudkowsky would say that Yudkowsky is a paperclip maximizer." Episode 7 | Link below

Timour Kosters builds pop-up cities: month-long villages of 500 to 1,000 builders. One participant raised $10M for a neuroscience startup. Another, from Nairobi, won a multimillion-dollar Nvidia grant. Loneliness, he argues, is a design problem. Episode 5 @joinedgecity @guystocks

Andreas Gomez Emilsson and the Qualia Research Institute are making a bold bet: suffering is solvable. The conversation starts with their insight: A 3mg dose of DMT can abort a cluster headache in under a minute. Episode 6 @algekalipso @guystocks Episode link below: