329 - James Poulos - Bitcoin Monasteries: Putting Technology to Good Use
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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James Poulos is the co-founder and executive editor of The American Mind at the Claremont Institute and the cofounder and publisher of Return at New Founding.
He is the author of the books The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves, and Human Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War: https://humanforever.us/
He holds a PhD in government from Georgetown University and a BA in political science from Duke University. A fellow at the Center for the Study of Digital Life, he was previously the communications director at the Heraion Foundation, a veterans-run rescue and recovery nonprofit operating in failed and fragile states.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. So hello, everyone. |
| 0:26.9 | It is my pleasure to be here with James Pulos. |
| 0:29.7 | Some of you probably know his work. |
| 0:31.7 | He is the editor at American Mind and at the Claremont Institute. |
| 0:36.4 | He's also works for the Blaze editor there. |
| 0:38.3 | You've seen him on all kinds of podcast, TV shows. |
| 0:42.3 | He's written for several publications, and he's also written several books. |
| 0:48.3 | And so he, I'm very happy that he's willing to talk to us about technology. |
| 0:51.3 | It's placed in the world today. |
| 0:53.3 | It's weird connection to spirituality and a vision for the future. |
| 0:57.3 | So James, thanks for talking to me. |
| 0:59.6 | Hey, good to be with you. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah, it's great. |
| 1:01.4 | And so, I mean, I want to start in some ways in a weird way because there's this recent article |
| 1:06.0 | that came out, I think it was on Future about what's going on at Open AI and how there's this, |
| 1:13.7 | there's these rumors of people doing strange rituals and strange invocations about and making |
| 1:19.9 | kind of, you know, figures of the AI and, you know, invoking certain things, kind of using, |
| 1:27.3 | we could call it some kind of magical thinking |
| 1:29.4 | or at least thinking that their intentions are related to the way in which AI will develop, |
| 1:36.1 | at least if we try to make it the least weird possible. But it also points to some strange |
| 1:40.9 | things. And so tell me a little bit. I mean, we can start there. What is your perception about that in terms of what the hell is going on in the world of technology? |
| 1:48.7 | Sure. Well, I think it's clear. And I laid some of this out two years ago in my book, Human Forever. |
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