Turing Church podcast

This is a conversation with my friend Natasha Vita-More. The video of this conversation is published on YouTube by Mindplex . We first met on the Extropians mailing list nearly 30 years ago. Reflecting on those early days, I said that our initial technology timelines seemed over-optimistic to me. However, I now believe the rapid advancement of AI acts as a “framework technology” that could finally...

I recently chatted with my old friend Max More to reflect on our history within the Extropian movement and discuss our views on the future of technology. The video of this conversation is published on YouTube by Mindplex . We first met through the Extropians mailing list in the late 90s, and I’ve recently been revisiting those old archives and issues of Extropy magazine. While I loved the optimist...

This continues “ Q/A on Irrational mechanics (1) ” and “ Q/A on Irrational mechanics (2) .” I participated the final meeting organized by the philosophy study group “Fire from the Future” (FFTF) to discuss my book “ Irrational mechanics ” (2024). All participants had read the entire book. I wish to thank all organizers and participants for this very interesting discussion. This is a local audio re...

This continues “ Q/A on Irrational mechanics (1) .” I participated in another meeting organized by the philosophy study group “Fire from the Future” (FFTF) to discuss my book “ Irrational mechanics ” (2024). All participants had read at least the first 8 chapters of my book. This is a local audio recording, and only my voice is heard. But in most cases I briefly summarized questions and comments b...

This continues my previous conversation with Gregory Stock, the author of “ Generation AI ,” about the future of AI, society, and humanity’s place. The video of this conversation has been published on YouTube as a Mindplex podcast episode titled “ Technology is Biology, with Gregory Stock .” Greg thinks we and our technology are part of a “global superorganism” or “global mind,” which he wrote abo...

I participated in the first of a series of meetings organized by a philosophy study group called “Fire from the Future” (FFTF) to discuss my book “ Irrational mechanics ” (2024). All participants had read at least the first two chapters of my book. I gave a short summary of the first two chapters, underlined some of my recurring and most important points, and said a few words on what to expect fro...

The is a conversation between me and Gregory Stock, the author of the book Generation AI . The book was published on December 15, a few weeks before this recording. The video of this conversation has been published on YouTube as a Mindplex podcast episode titled “ Generation AI and the Cosmos, with Gregory Stock .” I published a review of the book in Mindplex magazine in December. I agree with mos...

The Terasem Colloquium on December 14, 2025, explored recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and future prospects. This video is also on YouTube . December 14 is the anniversary of the last day with astronauts on the Moon. Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt launched back to Earth from the Moon on December 14, 1972. Cernan’s biography is titled “ The Last Man on the...

I gave this talk at the Aetheria Symposia I in Crete . It is a presentation of my book “ Irrational mechanics: Narrative sketch of a futurist science & a new religion ” and a chapter-by-chapter summary. Irrational mechanics is street science, street philosophy, street metaphysics, street theology, by the people and for the people. By the people because it is open to maverick thinkers and unaffilia...

Frank Tipler gave a kickass talk at the Terasem Colloquium on July 20, 2025 , via Zoom. He elaborated in space expansion, artificial intelligence (AI), the physics of ultimate space propulsion systems, and the far future of the universe. The Colloquium explored diverse points of view on the topic of space expansion in the age of AI. In particular, it explored answers to the question: Should we sti...

The Terasem Colloquium on July 20, 2025 took place via Zoom. The Colloquium explored diverse points of view on the topic of space expansion in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). In particular, it explored answers to the question: Should we still want to send human astronauts to colonize space? Or should we want to leave space expansion to AI? This video is also on YouTube . I gave a short in...

This conversation with Howard Bloom continues my previous conversation with him of two weeks ago. We discussed (among other things) Howard’s new book “ The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong ” (2025), his previous book “ The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism ” (2010), and my last book “ Irrational mechanics: Narrative sketch of a futurist scie...

This conversation with Howard Bloom continues my previous conversation with him of three years ago. We discussed (among other things) Howard’s new book “ The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong ” (2025). My review of Howard’s book is here , and a shorter version is on Amazon (5 stars of course). I had prepared these question for Howard: Howard is a Democrat and doe...

This is a video recording of a conversation with Tsvi Bisk, the author “ Cosmodeism: A Worldview for the Space-Age: How an Evolutionary Cosmos is Creating God ” [ Bisk 2024 ]. We discussed the parts of the book that I found more interesting (scroll down for my review) and Bisk added other insightful considerations and pearls of rabbinic wisdom. This video is also on YouTube . I’ve been reading the...

I had yet another great conversation with Frank Tipler. As I say at the beginning of the conversation, Frank is one of the thinkers who had a very deep influence on me. This video is also on YouTube . I mention Frank frequently in “ Irrational Mechanics .” Here’s an excerpt: “He could well be right and be proven right by future science. Time will tell. Meanwhile, I read his works as visionary, ins...

This is the continuation of the chat “ Irrational mechanics in conversation ” that Stella R. Magnet and Giulio Prisco recorded in Budapest last week. Too bad Stella is back in her personal slice of heaven, but we’ll record other future conversations with the usual boring online means. We discuss, guess what, many thing more or less related to Giulio’s “ Irrational mechanics ” (the book). We start...

Stella R. Magnet came to see Giulio Prisco in Budapest! We recorded the first two episodes of a series of conversations between irrational mechanics about “ Irrational mechanics ” (the book). At some point these chats will move to our new secret media project blaxxky . In this episode we discuss science and culture, magic, Elon Musk, Mars, and faster than light travel. The conversation will contin...

Here’s the video recording of the Terasem Colloquium on Saturday, December 14, 2024 . This video is also on YouTube . I added subtitles only here, because at this moment transcription seems to work better on Substack than YouTube. Speakers See this post for more information about the speakers. Beth Singler starts at 00:07:20. Weaver Weinbaum starts at 00:37:25. William Sims Bainbridge starts at 01...

Alan Kazlev couldn’t give a talk at the recent Terasem Colloquium , so we recorded this conversation instead. The video is on YouTube . Unfortunately the audio quality on Alan’s side is poor due to a poor internet connection. The transcript generated by Substack is better than the transcript generated by YouTube. I first met Alan about 20 years ago when I wrote to him to discuss his awesome projec...

The Terasem Colloquium on July 7, 2024 explored old and new radically optimistic futurisms including Italian futurism, Russian and modern cosmism, extropy, and e/acc (the new kid on the futurist block). Speakers: Riccardo Campa, Ben Goertzel, Robin Hanson, James Pethokoukis, Max More. See this post for more about the speakers . This video is also on YouTube , with links to individual talks. Of cou...

On Feb. 19 I gave an online talk for Space Renaissance . I’m republishing the audio of the talk, with permission. The video is on Space Renaissance YouTube channel. I wish to thank Adriano Autino and Sabine Heinz for a very interesting conversation, and I wish to invite all listeners to join Space Renaissance . I elaborated on the cultural issues discussed in my book “ Futurist spaceflight meditat...

We recorded this podcast using X Spaces . We used this tool to download the audio file from X. To use it, install the dependencies and you may have to change the name of the browser (Opera, in the script) to the name of the browser that you normally use for X. Intro and summary written by Giulio Prisco : Well, there’s no need to decentralize the cosmic operating system because it is already decent...

Ben Goertzel & friends have organized a Beneficial AGI Summit & Unconference (BGI24) in Panama City, Feb. 27 - Mar. 1 2024, + online. See Ben’s post . I’m honored to be the second speaker in the pre-event series, after Ben . Listen to my conversation with Esther Galfalvi on the future of AI. The video is published in the SingularityNET YouTube channel. Topics: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artific...

Here’s the first Turing Church podcast episode of 2024. Happy new year! 2024 promises to be a great year for spaceflight. In 2024 we could make important advances toward the cosmist dream of space expansion. This podcast episode was first published in 2019. It was the pilot (and alas the last) episode of a media project called Maximum Jailbreak . I started the project with my friends Stellar Magne...

The Terasem Colloquium on December 14, 2023, explored recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine consciousness. Speakers : Ben Goertzel, Stefano Vaj, Mika Johnson, Blake Lemoine, Bill Bainbridge, Vitaly Vanchurin. This video is also on YouTube . Ben Goertzel’s talk starts at 00:07:06. Stefano Vaj’s talk starts at 00:36:45. Mika Johnson’s talk starts at 01:00:48. Blake Lemoine’...