Humans On The Loop

🦠 The Future Is Disgusting

On the erotic as the prophetic, and why we shrink away.

Oct 9 •

Michael Garfield

Co-Evolving with Magical Technologies feat. Sam Arbesman

Code is magic. Is magic also code?

Oct 2 •

Michael Garfield

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Samuel Arbesman

1:24:22

Holistic Technology for Growing a World in Love with Larry Muhlstein

Can fundamentally different tech provide the basis for a world in love?

Sep 22 •

Michael Garfield

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Larry Muhlstein

2:14:54

Taryn Southern on Surfing the Exponential Tech Tsunami

On self-transformation as a way of life, its promises and occupational hazards

Sep 10 •

Michael Garfield

1:13:01

Chaim Gingold on Building SimCity & Simulation as Discourse

We live in abstractions. What makes some better than others?

Aug 20 •

Michael Garfield

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1:26:30

🌿 Foraging in High-Dimensional Data

My talk from the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute 2025 on how we can draw from thinking in complex systems science and game design to heal our…

Aug 5 •

Michael Garfield

Culture, Consciousness, and the Second Renaissance with Rufus Pollock

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Jul 10 •

Michael Garfield

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1:47:01

Lessons from a Metamodern AI Shaman with George Pór

Sitting at the feet of the father of the knowledge ecology movement

Jul 1 •

Michael Garfield

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1:05:32

Design for Provably Safe AI with Evan Miyazono

We're doing alignment wrong. Here's how to do it right.

Jun 24 •

Michael Garfield

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1:09:13

Religions of the Future & The New Monstrous with Rina Nicolae

Theorizing digital pop culture, from The Vatican to The Kardashians and beyond...

Jun 10 •

Michael Garfield

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1:24:16

Self-Actualization in the Global Brain with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal

A guide to staying human and becoming ungovernable in the midst of the Singularity

May 23 •

Michael Garfield

1:11:21

☯ Why Should "I Contain Multitudes"?

On making peace with paradox as we turn and face the strangeness of AI.

May 12 •

Michael Garfield

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