EdgeCast

By Edge Foundation, Inc.

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Episodes: 138

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"To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves."

Episode Date
Daniel Kahneman - Adversarial Collaboration
Feb 24, 2022
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow: Positive Human Behavior
Nov 15, 2021
Larry Brilliant - A Very Bumpy Ride
Dec 07, 2020
David Kaiser - The Shifting Terrain of Scientific Inquiry
Jul 13, 2020
Ainissa Ramirez - Interrogating and Shaping the World Through Science
Jun 25, 2020
Stephen Wolfram - Computation All the Way Down
Jun 19, 2020
Laurence C. Smith - How Humans Make the Earth Their Home
Jun 12, 2020
Toby Ord - We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves Without the Wisdom to Ensure That We Don't
Apr 06, 2020
Donald Hoffman - Realism Is False
Jan 28, 2020
Lee Smolin - The Causal Theory of Views
Dec 19, 2019
Markus Gabriel - The Paradox of Self-Consciousness [11.11.19]
Nov 11, 2019
Seth Lloyd - Communal Intelligence [10.28.19]
Oct 28, 2019
Patricia Churchland - The Nature of Moral Motivation
Oct 16, 2019
Robert Pollack - Rethinking Our Vision of Success [10.10.19]
Oct 10, 2019
Philip Goff - A Post-Galilean Paradigm [9.24.19]
Sep 24, 2019
Julian Barbour - The Universe Is Not in a Box [9.11.19]
Sep 11, 2019
W. Daniel Hillis - Emergences [9.4.19]
Sep 04, 2019
Peter Galison - Epistemic Virtues [8.21.19]
Aug 21, 2019
George Dyson - AI That Evolves in the Wild [8.14.19]
Aug 14, 2019
David Chalmers - The Language of Mind [8.8.19]
Aug 08, 2019
Neil Gershenfeld - Morphogenesis for the Design of Design [7.31.19]
Jul 31, 2019
Frank Wilczek - Ecology of Intelligence [7.23.19]
Jul 23, 2019
Tom Griffiths - Humans: Doing More With Less [7.16.19]
Jul 16, 2019
Timothy Taylor - Polythetics and the Boeing 737 MAX [7.16.19]
Jul 16, 2019
Alison Gopnik - A Separate Kind of Intelligence [7.10.19]
Jul 10, 2019
Robert Axelrod - Collaboration and the Evolution of Disciplines [7.1.19]
Jul 01, 2019
Barbara Tversky - The Geometry of Thought [6.25.19]
Jun 25, 2019
Caroline A. Jones - Questioning the Cranial Paradigm [6.19.19]
Jun 19, 2019
Freeman Dyson - The Brain Is Full of Maps [6.11.19]
Jun 11, 2019
Andy Clark - Perception As Controlled Hallucination [6.6.19]
Jun 06, 2019
Stephen Wolfram - Mining the Computational Universe [5.30.19]
May 30, 2019
Rodney Brooks - The Cul-de-Sac of the Computational Metaphor [5.13.19]
May 13, 2019
Alexander Rose - How to Create an Institution that lasts 10,000 Years [4.24.19]
Apr 24, 2019
Ian McEwan - Machines Like Me [4.16.19]
Apr 16, 2019
David Chalmers, Daniel C. Dennett - Is Superintelligence Impossible? [4.10.19]
Apr 10, 2019
Michele Gelfand - Cultural Intelligence [3.12.19]
Mar 12, 2019
Possible Minds - Live at the Brattle Theater in Boston [2.21.2019]
Mar 04, 2019
Freeman Dyson - Biological and Cultural Evolution [2.19.2019]
Feb 19, 2019
Lisa Mosconi - Alzheimer's Prevention [2.11.19]
Feb 11, 2019
Susan Schneider - The Future of the Mind [1.28.19]
Jan 28, 2019
Jonathan Rodden - The Urban-Rural Divide: Why Geography Matters [1.16.19]
Jan 16, 2019
Elaine Pagels - The Social History of Religion [12.12.18]
Dec 12, 2018
Peter Galison - How Technology Changes Our Concept of the Self [11.20.18]
Nov 20, 2018
Karl Sigmund - When the Rule of Law Is Not Working [10.11.18]
Oct 11, 2018
Doyne Farmer - Collective Awareness [10.3.18]
Jul 17, 2018
Brian Hare - Absolute Brain Size Matters [6.28.18]
Jun 28, 2018
Andrew Barron - The Connectomic Revolution [6.12.18]
Jun 12, 2018
Nicolas Berggruen - Bonding with Your Algorithm [6.5.18]
Jun 05, 2018
Martie Haselton - Sexual Double Standards [5.24.18]
May 24, 2018
Murray Shanahan - The Space of Possible Minds [5.18.18]
May 18, 2018
Sabine Hossenfelder - Looking in the Wrong Places [4.30.18]
Apr 30, 2018
Mary Catherine Bateson - How To Be a Systems Thinker [4.17.18]
Apr 16, 2018
Kai-Fu Lee - We Are Here To Create [3.26.18]
Mar 19, 2018
Caroline A. Jones - A Common Sense [3.15.18]
Mar 15, 2018
George Church - Church Speaks [2.14.18]
Feb 14, 2018
John Naughton - The State of Informed Bewilderment [1.3.18]
Jan 03, 2018
Daniel C. Dennett - "A Difference That Makes a Difference" [11.22.17]
Nov 17, 2017
Sandy Pentland - The Human Strategy [10.30.17]
Oct 30, 2017
Rory Sutherland - Things to Hang on Your Mental Mug Tree [7.10.17]
Oct 17, 2017
Tim O'Reilly - Reality is an Activity of the Most August Imagination [10.2.17]
Oct 02, 2017
Tom Griffiths - Aerodynamics For Cognition [8.21.17]
Aug 21, 2017
Brian Keating - Shut Up and Measure [10.20.17]
Aug 10, 2017
Tania Lombrozo - Learning By Thinking [7.28.17]
Jul 31, 2017
Daniel Goleman - Compassionate Systems [6.22.17]
Jun 22, 2017
Martin Rees - Curtains For Us All? [5.31.17]
May 31, 2017
Venki Ramakrishnan - Soul of a Molecular Machine [5.1.17]
May 31, 2017
Ross Anderson - The Threat [5.8.17]
May 06, 2017
Jonathan Losos: Urban Evolution [3.31.2017]
Apr 01, 2017
Chris Anderson: Closing The Loop [3.7.2017]
Mar 08, 2017
Dan Sperber: The Function of Reason [2.22.17]
Feb 24, 2017
Stuart Russell: Defining Intelligence [2.7.17]
Feb 08, 2017
David Chalmers: The Mind Bleeds Into the World [1.24.17]
Jan 25, 2017
Brian Christian: How Should a Society Be? [12.1.16]
Dec 02, 2016
Laurie R. Santos: Glitches [11.21.16]
Nov 22, 2016
David Rand: The Cost of Cooperationg [11.9.16]
Nov 10, 2016
Judea Pearl: Engines of Evidence [10.24.16]
Oct 25, 2016
Monica L. Smith: Infrastructure As Dialogue [9.20.16]
Sep 21, 2016
Seth Lloyd - Quantum Hanky-Panky
Aug 22, 2016
Robert Plomin - Why We're Different [6.29.16]
Jun 29, 2016
Molly Crockett & Daniel Kahneman - Deontology Or Trustworthiness? [6.16.16]
Jun 16, 2016
June Gruber - Misunderstanding Positive Emotion [5.25.16]
May 25, 2016
Paul Dolan - The Social Construction of Stories
May 13, 2016
Gary Marcus - Is Big Data Taking Us Closer to the Deeper Questions in Artificial Intelligence? [5.4.16]
May 04, 2016
Frank Wilczek - Power Over Nature [4.20.16]
Apr 20, 2016
Joshua Knobe and Daniel Kahneman - A Characteristic Difference [4.26.16]
Apr 16, 2016
George Church - The Augmented Human Being [3.30.16]
Mar 30, 2016
Janna Levin - Sounds of the Skies [3.23.16]
Mar 23, 2016
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein - The Mattering Instinct [3.16.16]
Mar 16, 2016
Howard Gardner - Liberal Arts and Sciences in the 21st Century [3.9.16]
Mar 03, 2016
Stephen Wolfram - AI & The Future Of Civilization [3.1.16]
Mar 01, 2016
Ed Boyden - How the Brain is Computing the Mind [2.12.16]
Feb 12, 2016
David Reich - The Genomic Ancient DNA Revolution
Feb 01, 2016
Richard Nisbett - The Crusade Against Multiple Regression Analysis [1.21.16]
Jan 21, 2016
Gloria Origgi - What Is Reputation? [11.5.15]
Nov 05, 2015
Jamil Zaki - Choosing Empathy [10.20.15]
Oct 20, 2015
Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class V Part I [9.22.15]
Sep 22, 2015
Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class V Part II [9.22.15]
Sep 22, 2015
Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class IV Part II [9.15.15]
Sep 15, 2015
Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class III Part II [9.1.15]
Sep 01, 2015
Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class III Part I [9.1.15]
Sep 01, 2015
Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class II Part II [8.24.15]
Aug 24, 2015
Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class II Part I [8.24.15]
Aug 24, 2015
Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class I Part II [8.17.15]
Aug 17, 2015
Philip Tetlock - EDGE Master Class 2015: A Short Course in Superforecasting, Class I Part I [8.17.15]
Aug 17, 2015
John Markoff - The Next Wave [7.16.15]
Jul 16, 2015
Priyamvada Natarajan - The Exquisite Role of Dark Matter [6.10.15]
Jun 10, 2015
Sean Carroll - Layers of Reality [5.28.15]
May 28, 2015
David Christian - We Need a Modern Origin Story: A Big History [5.21.15]
May 21, 2015
Peter Coveney - Popper Versus Bacon [5.7.15]
May 07, 2015
Richard Dawkins - This Is My Vision of "Life" [4.30.15]
Apr 30, 2015
Jaan Tallinn - Existential Risk [4.16.15]
Apr 16, 2015
Yuval Noah Harari & Daniel Kahneman - Death Is Optional
Mar 04, 2015
Neil Gershenfeld - Digital Reality [1.23.15]
Jan 23, 2015
Chiara Marletto - Formulating Science in Terms of Possible and Impossible Tasks [12.6.14]
Dec 06, 2014
Margaret Levi - Entwined Fates [11.24.14]
Nov 24, 2014
Naomi Eisenberger - Social Pain [9.10.14]
Sep 10, 2014
Richard Prum - Duck Sex, Aesthetic Evolution, and the Origin of Beauty [9.3.14]
Sep 03, 2014
Matthew Lieberman - Latitudes of Acceptance [8.22.14]
Aug 22, 2014
Jonathan Gottschall - The Way We Live Our Lives in Stories [7.28.14]
Jul 28, 2014
Steven Pinker - Writing in the 21st Century [6.9.14]
Jun 09, 2014
HeadCon '13 - Daniel Dennett - The De-Darwinizing of Cultural Change [3.4.14]
Mar 04, 2014
HeadCon '13 - Joshua Knobe - Experimental Philosophy & the Notion of the Self
Feb 18, 2014
HeadCon '13 - David Pizarro - The Failure of Social and Moral Intuitions [2.25.14]
Feb 15, 2014
Kevin Kelly - The Technium [2.3.14]
Feb 03, 2014
HeadCon '13 - Laurie Santos - What Makes Humans Unique?
Jan 23, 2014
HeadCon '13 - Joshua Greene - The Role of Brain Imaging in Social Science
Dec 16, 2013
HeadCon '13 - Nicholas Christakis - The Science of Social Connections [12.9.13]
Dec 09, 2013
HeadCon '13 - Fiery Cushman - The Paradox of Automatic Planning [11.25.13]
Nov 25, 2013
HeadCon '13 - June Gruber - The Scientific Study of Positive Emotion [11.18.13]
Nov 18, 2013
HeadCon '13 - Sendhil Mullainathan - What Big Data Means For Social Science [11.11.13]
Nov 11, 2013
Joshua Greene - Deep Pragmatism [8.30.13]
Aug 30, 2013
David Moinina Sengeh - Technology & Innovation as a National Development Strategy
Jul 12, 2013
Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part II [6.6.13]
Jun 06, 2013
Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part I Discussion [6.6.13]
Jun 06, 2013
Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part I [6.6.13]
Jun 06, 2013
Napoleon Chagnon - Blood Is Their Argument Part II Discussion [6.6.13]
Jun 06, 2013
Lee Smolin - Think About Nature
May 14, 2013
Adam Alter - Disfluency [2.25.13]
Feb 25, 2013