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Monday April 15th at Green Spaces Denver, presented by the Mile High Business Alliance - "The Deeper Purpose of Your Business" - An Evening with Charles Eisenstein, author of "Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Community in an Age of Transition"

The Deeper Purpose of Your Business: Charles Eisenstein 4/2013

This is a conversation with Maria Scordialos, an activist in Greece. We talk about the referendum, the solidarity economy, the role of fear in politics, the economics and politics of debt, and the revolutionary potential of authenticity in leaders. This is our first recorded podcast, and the sound quality is poor. Please excuse our learning curve.

Reconnecting to the Strength We Have: Maria Scordialos (E00) A New and Ancient Story

This is a podcast featuring a discussion between Charles Eisenstein and Nipun Mehta, the founder of Service Space, on kindness and generosity, non-monetary wealth, and how even small, simple acts of kindness alter the fabric of our world to have potentially enormous social and political consequences.

Changing the Story with Kindness (E01) - A New and Ancient Story

A conversation between Charles and Amy Lansky, a computer scientist and NASA researcher who was propelled down the road less traveled through her son's autism and its subsequent "impossible" cure. We talk about radicalization, skepticism, and gateways to synchronicity.

Synchronicty and the Impossible (E02) - A New and Ancient Story

A conversation with Chris Martenson, creator of the Crash Course, who like I have has moved beyond (way beyond) economics to explore systems change and narrative change. We talk about real wealth and fake wealth, community, technology, healing, and the impossible. A deep dive!

Deep Wealth and Transformation (E03) - A New and Ancient Story

Charles talks with Francis Weller about grief as a gateway to joy, to reverence, and to community, and the power of public grief to bring healing on a personal, community, and political level.

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Of Grief and Reverence (E04) - A New and Ancient Story

Herein lies a selection of tracks I've been involved with in various ways.

Obiero, by Ayub Ogada

What role does metaethics play in AI alignment and safety? How might paths to AI alignment change given different metaethical views? How do issues in moral epistemology, motivation, and justification affect value alignment? What might be the metaphysical status of suffering and pleasure?  What's the difference between moral realism and anti-realism and how is each view grounded?  And just what does any of this really have to do with AI?

The Metaethics of Joy, Suffering, and AI Alignment is the fourth podcast in the new AI Alignment series, hosted by Lucas Perry. For those of you that are new, this series will be covering and exploring the AI alignment problem across a large variety of domains, reflecting the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of AI alignment. Broadly, we will be having discussions with technical and non-technical researchers across areas such as machine learning, AI safety, governance, coordination, ethics, philosophy, and psychology as they pertain to the project of creating beneficial AI. If this sounds interesting to you, we hope that you will join in the conversations by following us or subscribing to our podcasts on Youtube, SoundCloud, or your preferred podcast site/application.

If you're interested in exploring the interdisciplinary nature of AI alignment, we suggest you take a look here at a preliminary landscape which begins to map this space.

In this podcast, Lucas spoke with David Pearce and Brian Tomasik. David is a co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association, currently rebranded Humanity+. You might know him for his work on The Hedonistic Imperative, a book focusing on our moral obligation to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. Brian is a researcher at the Foundational Research Institute. He writes about ethics, animal welfare, and future scenarios on his website "Essays On Reducing Suffering." 

Topics discussed in this episode include:

-What metaethics is and how it ties into AI alignment or not
-Brian and David's ethics and metaethics
-Moral realism vs antirealism
-Emotivism
-Moral epistemology and motivation
-Different paths to and effects on AI alignment given different metaethics
-Moral status of hedonic tones vs preferences
-Can we make moral progress and would this mean?
-Moving forward given moral uncertainty

The Metaethics of Joy, Suffering, and Artificial Intelligence with Brian Tomasik and David Pearce

In our most recent Creative Confidence Series chat, David Kelley, founder of IDEO and the Stanford d.school, and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard sat down to discuss the core abilities of the most successful design thinking practitioners and personal stories and learnings from David’s friendships with several of today’s most innovative CEOs and leaders. Hear from more innovative leaders on the IDEO U podcast.

Learn more about building the skills and abilities to deepen your design thinking practice with our Advanced Design Thinking Certificate: ideo.to/y4EyDx

David Kelley on the Design Abilities of Creative Problem Solvers

Charles Eisenstein speaking at St. Mary Aldermary, London on July 19th 2012.  Mark Boyle introduces him.  Thanks to Simon Sutton for this recording, a gift from him to Charles. www.simononthesofa.com

Charles Eisenstein - Gift Economy

I describe Kelly Brogan as a “renegade psychiatrist” – someone who abandoned a prestigious career “in the system” to become a critic of pharmaceutical psychiatry and an advocate for holistic therapy. She is also a dear friend and ally whom I appreciate for her courage, creativity, and intellect. We covered a lot of ground in this conversation, medical, philosophical, and spiritual. Some of the main themes were: ending the war on pain, reclaiming personal sovereignty in physical and mental health,  the power of “I don’t know,” and the passage to authentic personal and cultural adulthood. We also discuss her powerful new book, Own Your Self (https://amzn.to/32XjBpF).

New & Ancient Story

Kelly Brogan: Get Real, Get Well, Get Free (E39)

What is mine to do? This is the mantra of Gigi Coyle, a revered veteran of social, political, and spiritual movements going back to the 1970s. Gigi was instrumental in the founding of the Ojai Foundation, Youth Passageways, Beyond Boundaries, and other groups. She is a true elder, someone whose experiences, successes, and especially failures give birth to wisdom in the soil of her humility. I hope listeners benefit as much from this conversation as I did.

This is Part One of a two-part conversation. You can find Part Two at:
https://charleseisenstein.org/podcasts/new-and-ancient-story-podcast/gigi-coyle-what-is-mine-to-do-e42/

More about Gigi's work: 
http://schooloflostborders.org/content/virginia-gigi-coyle

A New and Ancient Story

Gigi Coyle: What is Mine to Do? Part 1 (E42.1)

Gigi Coyle: What is Mine to Do? - Part 1 (E42)

Part Two of my conversation with Gigi Coyle explores the process of transforming pain and turmoil that is intensely reflecting back to us from the world (natural disasters, forest fires, potlics, etc..). How do we find the gifts hidden in these situations? How do we not go crazy trying not to go crazy?

This is Part Two of a two-part conversation. You can find Part One at:
https://charleseisenstein.org/podcasts/new-and-ancient-story-podcast/gigi-coyle-what-is-mine-to-do-e42/

More about Gigi's work: 
http://schooloflostborders.org/content/virginia-gigi-coyle

Gigi Coyle: What is Mine to Do? Part 2 (E42.2)

Gigi Coyle: What is Mine to Do? - Part 2 (E42)

Julie Esterly is active in the death care movement, part of the reclamation of death as a culturally recognized part of life. We speak of our culture's death rituals, the necessity of realizing death in order to fully realize life, and the connection between the denial of death and the denial of life, which takes specific form in collective ecocide. Is this a depressing topic? No. See if you come a little more alive through this conversation.

More about Julie Esterly at esterly.com and her work at naturaldeathcareinitiative.org

Julie Esterly: Mystery of Life, Death, and Earth (E43)

Sayer Ji is a prominent holistic health researcher and the founder of one of the largest alternative health websites, greenmedinfo.com. We talk first and foremost about the coronavirus and the multiple fear narratives surrounding it, then venture into some other controversial topics: body ecology and the "virome," vaccines, internet censorship, science and its limitations, biological transmutation of elements, water bubble cavitation, and my favorite topic of late, ideological polarization and peace.

Link to his new book, Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience through the New Biology: 
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/599585/regenerate-by-sayer-ji/ 
Other resource site: https://regenerateproject.com/