Stewart Alsop III | AI, Consciousness & Technology

Crazy Wisdom

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Exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence, consciousness, philosophy, and technology with thinkers, builders, and seekers. Hosted by Stewart Alsop III — conversations spanning AI agents, Advaita Vedanta, geopolitics, cryptography, network states, and the future of sovereign technology. 660+ episodes and counting.

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Stewart Alsop III | AI, Consciousness & Technology

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Oct 19, 2026

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Demystifying Large Language Models: What's the Role of Vector Databases? - Eden Marco 03.07.2023

Introduction Welcome to this deep dive into the world of Large Language Models (LLMs) and vector databases for the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. Our guest today is Eden Marco ( follow him on Twitter ), a Customer Engineer at Google Cloud and a best-selling Udemy instructor with a passion for General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). In this episode, we unpack the complexities and intricacies of LLMs, explo...

"How Does the Relationship Between Form and Function Shape Knowledge Management Tools? 28.06.2023

Show Notes In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom podcast, we are joined by Tem Nugmanov, the founder of the first-ever Notion consultancy Optemization . This enlightening discussion covers a broad array of topics, from how our lives are defined by the tools we use to the changing landscape of knowledge management. Key Discussion Points Tem's journey from moving to NYC in 2015 to study at NYU to beco...

Is AI the Silver Bullet? An In-depth Discussion with AskEdith's CEO, Jared Zhao 19.06.2023

Show Notes for the Crazy Wisdom Podcast Guest: Jared Zhao, CEO of AskEdith ( https://www.askedith.ai/ ) Conversation: Introduction to AskEdith: Explanation of the search-driven analytics tool that enables users to access data in plain language Targeted at non-technical users Background: Jared's previous work in creating a visual editor for a data warehouse and training non-technical users Evolutio...

Can Decentralized Exchanges and Knowledge Management Transform the Crypto Space? - A Conversation with Jae Yang 12.06.2023

Introduction Jae Yang, the founder of Tacen, a decentralized exchange, discusses his first hire as an archivist for the company and how this unique approach to knowledge management has helped them navigate the complex world of crypto startups. Tacen's commitment to thorough documentation and keeping a permanent record of every decision made is a testament to their belief in transparency and access...

Can AI predict the 3rd order effects of its own intervention? - DT 06.06.2023

Robert DT on twitter: @DeeperThrill Doctorate on biomedical engineering with a focus on AI Entrepreneur building biomedical systems with AI specifically; medical imaging The conversation centers on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging, with an emphasis on computer vision and the utilization of existing imaging algorithms. Transformers, a type of deep learning model, are disc...

What is the essence of relationship? 29.05.2023

In this podcast episode, the host, Stewart, is talking with Zach and Matthew, co-founders of Clay, a relationship management platform. The conversation covers various topics including: The Journey to Clay: Zach and Matthew discuss their journey of conceptualizing and developing Clay. They reveal the thought process that went into creating a product that could help manage relationships without redu...

What percentage of knowledge for business is like riding a bike? - Bart Verheijen: Guruscan 08.05.2023

Bart is the founding Guru at GuruScan | International Knowledge Management speaker | Makes Knowledge driven business decisions and helps enable the customers to do https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-guruscan/ Guruscan website https://guruscan.nl/ What is knowledge management? Knowledge is a lot more than information Information is content Knowledge is explicit and implicit knowledge Knowledge Manage...

Where do you fit in when it comes to the excitement vs fear spectrum when thinking about AI? - Matt Bunday 25.04.2023

Matt Bunday works in crypto. He loves to rock climb, martial arts, and think about underground psychedelic therapy   What is the biggest problem you’ve faced with knowledge management at your companies? Slack  Dropped balls in communication LLMs might be the response Why do you think slack spread so fast even though its not the best product? It was a step up from email IRC was a component More fri...

How is UX a strain of phenomenology? - Zohar Atkins 10.04.2023

  Zohar Atkins He is a rabbi, philosopher, blogger and podcaster. His podcast is called Meditations With Zohar Show Notes Who is your favorite philosopher? What is non-aggressive socratic questioning? Why do you like Heidegger? How was he Nazi-ism How do you relate to the history of philosophy? How do you walk the line between tradition and being a revolutionary? What was your first experience lea...

Legacy internet vs New Internet? - AJ Lamarc 03.04.2023

AJ is a software engineer interested in Urbit and data composability.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajlamarc https://www.ajlamarc.com/ Keep an eye out on Holium, and making it easier to code in Javascript for Urbit Notes What is data composability? Multiple applications sharing data and make the interfaces work together OpenAIs that both Twitter and Facebook had and then were shut down Data is the...

How do you map the unknown unknowns of a company? - Dave Snowden 27.03.2023

Dave Snowden is the Chief Scientific Officer of Cynefin. Head of Knowledge Management for 30 years. Author of Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World ( https://tinyurl.com/4958x362)   When did knowledge management start in the 90s? The ultimate disciplinary field What is intellectual capital? Intellectual property What is the anarcha book? Knowledge management is information ma...

How do you organize information and data in order to spend most of your time on high-level work? - Adam Haney 20.03.2023

Adam is the  VP of engineering at Invisible Technologies and active angel investment If you have specific questions, send them on to Adam@invisible.co   How do you organize information and data in order to spend most of your time on high-level work? How do you manage people who report to you to also do the same? What does knowledge management mean to you? What are the applications that will levera...

How do you add uncertainty to your AI prompts? - Kirill Zubovsky 13.03.2023

Kirill Zubovsky Prompt Engineer and CEO of @ SmartyNames.com  What is Smartynames.com? Does Godaddy front-run domain names by buying them as soon as you search for them? They are 12 billion $ company What have you learned about Machine Learning from doing this? Did you have to learn a lot to develop on openai’s algorithm? How do you add uncertainty to your AI prompts? Why do people like to hack in...

Does engineering advance science or does science advance engineering? - Pablo Peniche 06.03.2023

Pablo Peniche does front-end engineering, marketing, and design. Wears many hats at Viennahypertext Twitter: https://twitter.com/PabloPeniche https://vienna.earth/ What do Mexicans think about Central Americans? What is the relationship between urbit and vienna hypertext? What is vienna hypertext? An information network Create different canvases with blocks Why is vienna hypertext hard to build on...

How do you preserve knowledge that is implicit and hard to make explicit? - Ivan Vendrov 27.02.2023

Ivan Vendrov is A I researcher, ML engineer interested in speculation of future systems Twitter: https://twitter.com/IvanVendrov Website: https://www.vendrov.ai/ Questions discussed or for further discussions What do you think is the great X-risks humans face today? What are some weaknesses in terms of technology in general? How do you steer technology to make sure it's not developing in ways that...

How do humans seem to get things wrong and that ends up being their superpower? - Woody Wiegmann 20.02.2023

Woody Wiegmann https://twitter.com/WoodyWiegmann What will AI do the ability of people who have limited intelligence and agency? What will AI do to humans who tend to create rituals for guidance on what to do? Back in the 400BC, humans were ritually inclined, to put off their questions to ritual Are there going to be business moats around AI? How do humans seem to get things wrong and that ends up...

What are the use cases for distributed networked computing instead of centralized systems? - Eric Helal 13.02.2023

Eric Helal Founder of Quartus a Dev shop for Urbit Apps Rabsef-bicrym on Urbit  https://twitter.com/SafePen ~dalten/new-aera https://twitter.com/_dalten   Are we in Utopia or dystopia or neither? What are the other options besides social dystopia? Resource constraint Wind from a dying star novel Technology stultification How does Urbit help to solve this? What does it mean to lose understanding of...

Are the problems of meaning an issue with abrahamic cultures? - Adam Chavez 06.02.2023

Adam Chavez is a Founder of Freeplay, & Mokriya.    We make sense of where we’re headed as a society in a post-trust, post-2020 world.   What’s up with Steve Jobs’ apparent belief in magic? Why does that matter?    We also talk AI, holographic theory, the impact of ancient Abraham on America, & the Minecraft Generation.   https://alkebulan.substack.com/   adam@adamchavez.net   https://twitter.com/...

What does it mean to reject and transcend triviality? - Trent Gillham 30.01.2023

Trent Gillham Founder of Holium ~lomder-librun on Urbit https://twitter.com/AidenSolaran What does it mean to reject and transcend triviality? What do you know about machine learning given your experience in 2018? What was it like to work at a big company like GE? What have you learned about starting a startup? What is it like to develop on urbit? How does non-attachment help us to build products...

How is a human similar to a shattered giant ice cube? - Owen Barnes 23.01.2023

A full-stack web developer, speaker and adviser to a small number of blockchain startups  Owenbarnes.com On urbit: ~locruc-fonmec What are the foundations of privacy? What is the next big thing? Was Facebook built in PHP? Where do you see Urbit converging with cryptocurrency values? What is composability? What happened with Tornado Cash? What is a personal AI? What is the transformer paradigm? Wha...

How is the brain a filtration system? - Sam Frank 16.01.2023

Sam Frank, Writer, Investor, and Board member of the Urbit Foundation Substack: https://samfrank.substack.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/anecdoted Urbit ID: ~todset-partug How did you first get involved with Urbit? What is it like to be a writer in the descent of that profession brought on by the internet? What are the politics like in the new york writer's groups? What does it mean to be a rat...

What is a virtual machine? - Stephen 09.01.2023

Stephen is working on AI dev on Near protocol and developing on Ethereum What is the NEAR blockchain? What is sharding? Increasing throughput of the transactions Breaking up the blockchain into shards so that you can get more parallelism When does ETH sharding begin? ETH sharding is based on blobs Why are you attracted to Rust? Can you use Rust on Ethereum? What is a virtual machine? Something tha...

Why would someone need interoperability of everything? - Deborah Simpier 02.01.2023

Deborah Simpier Co-founder & CEO  of Althea Network and Gravity Bridge What does Althea network do? What is interoperability? What is the payment experience like right now? Why do telcos get monopolized? When did we start referring to people as users? Why do 29% of New York City not have access to the internet? How do you create frictionless payments? What is the relationship between stable coins...

What is the relationship between Kundalini and topological quantum computers? - Dr. Jonathan Paprocki 26.12.2022

Dr. Jonathan Paprocki Jonathan is a specialist in topological quantum compiling, a Tlon engineer, you can find him on Urbit @  ~Datnut-Pollen Blog can be found at Discordia (http://datnut-pollen.discordja.net/discordja) What is a Kundalini awakening? What do old dusty books say about Kundalini? What is the relationship between Kundalini and topological quantum computers? Can everything be explaine...

What does it mean to build NFT on the BTC blockchain? - Casey Rodarmor 19.12.2022

Today we have Casey Rodarmor, a bitcoin developer who is working on building non-fungible tokens (NFTs) directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. NFTs are digital assets that are unique and cannot be exchanged for other assets. They have become popular on Ethereum, but have not yet been implemented on the Bitcoin blockchain. Casey is working on a protocol that will allow NFTs to be natively held in a Bi...

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