{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Brendan McCord \u2014 AI and the Philosophy of Technology","description":"Brendan McCord is the founder of Cosmos Institute \u2014 a non-profit dedicated to exploring the intersection of AI and philosophy. Brendan joins the show to discuss Cosmos\u2019 origins, the pursuit of philosophy as a technologist, the different schools of thought in AI, complex adaptive systems and MUCH more! Important Links:  Brendan McCord\u2019s Reading List Cosmos Institute Substack Brendan\u2019s Twitter  Show Notes:  The Genesis of the Cosmos Institute Philosophy as a Quixotic Pursuit The Man of the System Dilemma Existential Risk &amp;amp; Scenario Agnosticism The AI Schools of Thought The Religious Nature of the E\/Acc Movement What Tocqueville Can Teach Us About AI The Philosophy-to-Code Pipeline \u201cCars ignited the Sexual Revolution\u201d and Other Unexpected Occurrences The Best Systems are Adaptive Heterogeneity &amp;amp; Resilient Systems Open Source and the US-China Situation Automation, Augmentation &amp;amp; Open-Ended Generation The Underrated Nuance of Russian Realism Cinematic Visions of the Future Great Talent &amp;amp; the Risk of the Tasmanian Devil Brendan as Emperor of the World MORE!  Books Mentioned:  Murray Rothbard, \u201cFor A New Liberty\u201d David R. Hawkins, \u201cPower vs. Force\u201d Jung Chang, \u201cWild Swans: Three Daughters of China\u201d Jung Chang, \u201cMao: The Unknown Story\u201d Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, \u201cThe Gulag Archipelago\u201d Arthur Koestler, \u201cDarkness At Noon\u201d Adam Smith, \u201cThe Theory of Moral Sentiments\u201d Lewis Carroll, \u201cAlice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland\u201d Lewis Carroll, \u201cWhat the Tortoise Said To Achilles\u201d Eliezer Yudkowsky, \u201cHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality\u201d Marc Andreessen, \u201cThe Techno-Optimist Manifesto\u201d Alexis De Tocqueville, \u201cDemocracy in America\u201d 'Pericles's Funeral Oration'&amp;nbsp;quoted in Thucydides\u2019 \u201cHistory of the Peloponnesian War\u201d. Plato, \u201cTheaetetus\u201d Plato, \u201cThe Republic\u201d Nietzsche, \u201cThe Gay Science\u201d C.P Snow, \u201cThe Two Cultures\u201d Elinor Ostrom, \u201cGoverning the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action\u201d James M. Buchanan, &quot;Freedom in Constitutional Contract: Perspectives of a Political Economist\u201d Iain M. Banks, \u201cConsider Phlebas\u201d (Culture Series #1) Chen Qiufan and Kai-Fu Lee, \u201cAI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future\u201d Christopher Buckley, \u201cThank You for Smoking\u201d John Stuart Mill, \u201cOn Liberty\u201d    ","author_name":"Infinite Loops","author_url":"https:\/\/infiniteloopspodcast.com\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/30566388\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/30566388"}