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We talk about what it means to compute emotions into computers. Here is Drounz's (Egorp) newsletter: https://whatspodcasting.substack.com/

In this conversation, I speak with Adrian (as we were having dinner sometime in September, 2023) on Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and Nassim Taleb's Antifragility.

In this conversation, I speak with Egorp on the employment statistics of the Nigerian tech startup ecosystem. We also discussed how people could survive the serious competitive environment in Nigeria.

In this conversation in Spanish with German Giralt, we dive into the Spanish startup ecosystem precisely focusing on founders and their practices. 

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party will be held in Beijing, on the 16th of October 2022. This Congress is particularly important because it might seal President Xi Jinping's rule for life. He will, if elected leader, become the first Chinese leader in to rule China for a third term. In this conversation, we speak to Thomas Maddock on how China's relation with France, and in...

In this episode, we take a look into the conversation between Roger Penrose and Lex Fridman. We explore Penrose' conception of consciousness and why he thinks Strong AI proponents might not be correct in their believing that we can make computers conscious. 

In this episode, Mariona talks about her Global Studies final thesis on the Circular Economy and its application in Emilia-Romagna in Italy.

En esta nueva entrega, conversamos con Aitor Álvarez Berazaluce, CTO (Chief Technological Officer) de Ghop. Ghop es una start-up española pionera en lo que se denominan las tiendas inteligentes. Su objetivo es impulsar e implementar puntos de venta sin que en ellas sea necesario para su funcionamiento ninguna persona, a la Amazon. El concepto que propone el primer, y hasta la fecha, único punto de...

Today, we spoke with Vladan about Liquid democracy, new economic models and the future of the global economy. 

Today, me and Adrian spoke about leadership. We spoke about Henry VIII & Queen Elizabeth I and many more. We hope you enjoy it!

Yesterday was earth day, did you notice? Did you care? I personally did not know until we (Adrian Arroyo, myself and Virginia) were about to record the podcast yesterday. What does earth day mean asides it being Google's template for the day yesterday? Why does earth have a day? Is that not funny? How can the very thing which contains us be made to have a day as if it was birthday. Is earth ours o...

In today's conversation, Adrian and I watched two movies which guided our conversation. The two movies were Peaceful Warrior and V for Vendetta . The two movies can themselves be individual discussions but for the sake of today's discussion, we decided to use the themes of paradox, humour and change - three things Soc (Socrates) in the Peaceful Warrior identified as essential for life, to be the f...

The idea of knowledge differs depending on the context. Knowledge in academia has a particular connotation hinged on peer-reviews and ability to be as well read as possible. Knowledge in traditional (African and Asian) societies, and to an extent today, is termed as wisdom. By seeing knowledge as wisdom, one sees the hierarchy of age and the need for experience to speak before lack of experience....

Entertainment has been on the rise in our generation. Its impact cuts across different aspects of life. Micheal Wolff has called the ability for entertainment to transcend industries as the E-Factor (Entertainment Factor). Disney’s ability to understand the impact of ` The Little Mermaid´ to increase their sales through toys is one of such examples. This has largely led to coopetition between diff...

Justice has not meant the same thing throughout history. It has changed several times, and each time it changed, it was because of several factors including demography, scale of the land and the authority of the person implementing that justice. To be able to understand when doing good can become a hurdle for justice, we need to understand how justice does not really care about beneficence. Someti...

We are privileged, through history, to learn of people who were able to influence the tides of time. Privileged to read of others' mistakes and visions even from a classroom centuries away. The present reality of Europe, which in turn is partly of the world as this episode came before the full-on colonization of the world, was gradually moulded by specific individuals. The aim of this podcast is t...