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Episode 17: Ned Ludd's Legacy
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Section: C-Realm Podcast
Category: Podcasts
2007-01-24 06:00:00
The dopefiend leads a double life. By day, he is a talented media professional with wide-ranging experience within the Media Industry and a keen eye for a story. By night he is a vociferous critic of the world's approach to drug legislation, a campaigner for the rights of Medical Cannabis users, and an outspoken commentator on Current Affairs.
"The double life that most Cannabis users live has always been an interesting concept to me," Remarks the dopefiend. "Because of the barrage of anti-Cannabis propaganda that has been spewed out over the years, the world's smokers have been forced into hiding. Doctors, lawyers and teachers are so terrified that their habit will wreck their career that they often promulgate the anti-Cannabis line themselves. I'm no different!"
Cannabis, according to the dopefiend, will be legal in the United Kingdom within ten years. "It's been a long, slow process, but I think some moves have been made over the past few years which seem to be steps along the right road. I know there's a lot more to do, but the pro-cannabis lobby has been growing stronger and more determined, and they're not going to let this one die."
The dopefiend believes his career puts him in an ideal position to create what he calls "an informative and entertaining read which gets the facts straight but pulls no punches". He speaks regularly with the world's foremost experts, commentators, campaigners and politicans on a variety of current issues. He also has access to news wires and factual content from around the globe, keeping him abreast of world matters.
The dopefiend believes his weekly Dopecast is unique and important. "There really is nothing quite like it on the web; there are other Cannabis podcasts, of course, but they're either too straight or too light. The Dopecast strikes an important balance between the two; it reports the news, but there's a bit of humour and music thrown in."
by Ray Kurzweil, and Living Homes: Integrated Design & Construction
by Thomas J. Elpel.
I also read a portion of a speech entitled "Essences, Orcs and Civilization: The Case for a Cheerful Libertarianism" that science fiction author, David Brin, gave in front of a crowd of dyed-in-the-wool Libertarians. You can find the full text of that speech here: Link: http://www.davidbrin.com/libertarianart
Written By: Administrator
Section: C-Realm Podcast
Category: Podcasts
2007-01-24 06:00:00
In this episode, I pull together material from several sources to demonstrate that my desire for saner living does not amount to a call for a new Luddite movement. I also chat with the Dopefiend, host of the Dopecast on the Cannibus Podcast Network.
The DopefiendThe dopefiend leads a double life. By day, he is a talented media professional with wide-ranging experience within the Media Industry and a keen eye for a story. By night he is a vociferous critic of the world's approach to drug legislation, a campaigner for the rights of Medical Cannabis users, and an outspoken commentator on Current Affairs.
"The double life that most Cannabis users live has always been an interesting concept to me," Remarks the dopefiend. "Because of the barrage of anti-Cannabis propaganda that has been spewed out over the years, the world's smokers have been forced into hiding. Doctors, lawyers and teachers are so terrified that their habit will wreck their career that they often promulgate the anti-Cannabis line themselves. I'm no different!"
Cannabis, according to the dopefiend, will be legal in the United Kingdom within ten years. "It's been a long, slow process, but I think some moves have been made over the past few years which seem to be steps along the right road. I know there's a lot more to do, but the pro-cannabis lobby has been growing stronger and more determined, and they're not going to let this one die."
The dopefiend believes his career puts him in an ideal position to create what he calls "an informative and entertaining read which gets the facts straight but pulls no punches". He speaks regularly with the world's foremost experts, commentators, campaigners and politicans on a variety of current issues. He also has access to news wires and factual content from around the globe, keeping him abreast of world matters.
The dopefiend believes his weekly Dopecast is unique and important. "There really is nothing quite like it on the web; there are other Cannabis podcasts, of course, but they're either too straight or too light. The Dopecast strikes an important balance between the two; it reports the news, but there's a bit of humour and music thrown in."
Books
In this week's show, I read excerpts from two books; The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil, and Living Homes: Integrated Design & Construction by Thomas J. Elpel.I also read a portion of a speech entitled "Essences, Orcs and Civilization: The Case for a Cheerful Libertarianism" that science fiction author, David Brin, gave in front of a crowd of dyed-in-the-wool Libertarians. You can find the full text of that speech here: Link: http://www.davidbrin.com/libertarianart
Episode 18: Down Under
Written By: Administrator
Section: C-Realm Podcast
Category: Podcasts
2007-01-31 12:42:00
Written By: Administrator
Section: C-Realm Podcast
Category: Podcasts
2007-01-31 12:42:00
In this Down Under episode I talk with the Dopefiend and Llamabox about a range of subjects. The show opens with an excerpt from the Greg Egan short story, "The Infinite Assassin." Special thanks to Black Beauty for the interstitial ID spots.
Guests
The Dopefiend of the Cannabis Podcast Network: I posted his bio in the notes for last week's show.
Llamabox of the Ethnoring: I don't know a lot about this fine fellow other than he grew up all over the globe, he's into plants, and he likes to share his knowledge and resources. That's enough to make him a person worth knowing as far as I'm concerned.Books
The opening excerpt comes from the short story collection Axiomatic
Episode 28: Building a Better Monster
Written By: Administrator
Section: C-Realm Podcast
Category: Podcasts
2007-04-11 10:39:00
If you want to learn more about the concept of autogeny, you might want to check out the website of the coiner of the term, J. Storrs (Josh) Hall, PhD: http://autogeny.org/
Ben and I talk about SF visualizations of the Singularity with many references to Accelerondo, by Charles Stross (AKA
autopope). You can read Accerlerondo on-line for free here: http://www.accelerando.org/
The Dopefiend has made several previous appearances on the C-Realm Podcast, but if you're new in town and haven't heard of him before, you can find out more about him as well as my other podcast, Psychonautica, here:
http://www.dopefiend.co.uk
Written By: Administrator
Section: C-Realm Podcast
Category: Podcasts
2007-04-11 10:39:00
We start off with some listener submitted content, and then KMO talks with Novamente founder Ben Goertzel about kinds of minds; straight-laced and psychedelic, evolved organic and autogenous "artificial" agents. The Dopefiend makes an appearance to dream big about the future of podcasting, and we end with a teaser for next week's interview with Albert Bates.
Salvia-Inspired Creation Myth:
You can find Ryan Nagel's animated videos on his YouTube page.
Ben Goertzel
His name in the headline font above acts as a text link to Ben's site. You can find all you need to know there or on Ben's blog, but just to make this page look like it's got some content to it, here's an out-of-date bio for Ben that I swiped from here:BEN GOERTZEL is founder Chairman, and Chief Technology Officer of Webmind Inc., and the chief architect of the Webmind AI system which not only understands the meaning of concepts expressed in text, speech and numerical data patterns, but also creates its own ideas based on the information it accesses. Webmind, a Java-based software system, evolves its own "digital intuition," which it uses to pose and answer questions. It deals with textual and numerical information on an equal footing, freely making generalizations that span different types of data.
Goertzel holds a PhD in mathematics from Temple University, and has held university faculty positions in mathematics, computer science, and psychology, at universities in the US, New Zealand and Australia. He is author of numerous research papers, a biography (Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics) and five scholarly books dealing with topics in the cognitive sciences. In his spare time, he composes avant-garde music and writes surrealist fiction and poetry.
If you want to learn more about the concept of autogeny, you might want to check out the website of the coiner of the term, J. Storrs (Josh) Hall, PhD: http://autogeny.org/
Ben and I talk about SF visualizations of the Singularity with many references to Accelerondo, by Charles Stross (AKA
autopope). You can read Accerlerondo on-line for free here: http://www.accelerando.org/The Dopefiend has made several previous appearances on the C-Realm Podcast, but if you're new in town and haven't heard of him before, you can find out more about him as well as my other podcast, Psychonautica, here:
http://www.dopefiend.co.uk
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