FUTURE FOSSILS
Hosted by Michael Garfield · Michael Garfield
4.9from 244 ratings
- 271
- Episodes
- 25
- Transcribed
- 244
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
- 305K
- YouTube views
About FUTURE FOSSILS
Join artist and philosopher Michael Garfield for bold, transdisciplinary explorations at the edge of the knowable — deep-cut dialogues on the future of science, art, and political economy, agency in the age of automation, and the psychedelic horizons of human-technology co-evolution. Building on over twenty years of independent research and Michael's stints in major zones of scenius (including at The Santa Fe Institute, The Long Now Foundation, and The Mozilla Internet Ecosystem), Humans On The Loop will help you ask better questions, shift your view of the possible, and cultivate the curiosity and play you need to navigate our age of accelerating weirdness. Dive into extensive show notes, read mind-expanding essays, and join the members community at https://michaelgarfield.substack.com www.humansontheloop.com (https://www.humansontheloop.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Michael Garfield
- Category
- society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 21 May 2016
- Latest episode
- 17 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
25 of 271 episodes have a transcript.
17 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Buddhist Epistemology Teaches Us about The Future of AI
30 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Continual Learning: World Models in Natural & Artificial Intelligence with Adam Safron
25 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Visionary Ventures & The AI-Native Avant-Garde with William Morgan of Restless Egg
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What Buddhist Epistemology Teaches Us about The Future of AI
Published 17 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And Buddhist philosophy for me, and I think not exclusive for Buddhism, I think many other traditions, wisdom traditions would have similar insights, helped me realize some of these fundamental assumptions that we make and ask, okay, what if we come to realize that we are making these assumptions and perhaps re-examine them? And in the context of computational models of learning and decision-making, that's where I found myself in this work with John Donne that built on some earlier, more technical work, where I was trying to bring some ideas from Buddhist epistemology to bear on the question of state representation, which is a, in the context of reinforcement learning, it's a very basic question. […]
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- Nadav Amir
- Adam Safron
- William Morgan
- Andrea Farias
- JF Martel
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- 304,764
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- 4.9 / 5
- 244 ratings
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- 95
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- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 96
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