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High Variance is an interview podcast about a world that has become harder to read — more uncertain, more volatile, stranger. Host Danny Buerkli speaks with public intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and technologists to ask what is going on and how we should respond.
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Debatable Persons: The Coming Crisis Over AI Consciousness – with Eric Schwitzgebel (opens the original)
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Eric Schwitzgebel — professor of philosophy at UC Riverside and author of The Weirdness of the World and the forthcoming Human-Like: A Defense of AI Rights — joins Danny Buerkli to ask what happens if we create AI systems whose consciousness we cannot determine. If they are conscious, treating them as disposable tools could amount to a horrible crime; if they are not, granting them human-like rights could have catastrophic consequences too. They discuss Eric’s “design policy of the excluded midd
What Makes a Job Automatable? – with Bouke Klein Teeselink (opens the original)
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Bouke Klein Teeselink — associate professor of economics at King’s College London and chief economist at the AI Objectives Institute — joins Danny Buerkli to ask what actually makes a job automatable. Early evidence suggests that firms and occupations more exposed to AI are already seeing declines in hiring and employment — but Bouke argues that these first effects may be driven as much by uncertainty as by automation. That does not make him an AI skeptic: he expects capabilities to continue adv
The Craft of Foresight – with Florence Gaub (opens the original)
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Florence Gaub — political scientist, military strategist, and director of the Research Division at the NATO Defense College — joins Danny Buerkli to talk about the craft of foresight: what makes for a good warning (be concrete, offer options, manage the emotion), the mix of imagination, expert knowledge, and privileged access behind her 2013 call that Egypt was counting down to a coup, and why she has commissioned an audit of her own Ukraine predictions. They also discuss why wars are won by eve
Cybernetics: The Science Economics Should Have Become (opens the original)
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Dan Davies — economist, FT contributor, former investment bank analyst, and author of The Unaccountability Machine and Lying for Money — joins Danny Buerkli to make the case that management cybernetics is the science economics should have turned into. Hayek and Coase settled the economics of information in the 1930s, before Shannon and Turing gave the field a rigorous concept of information to build on. They also discuss why the optimal amount of fraud is not zero, what actually killed Credit Su
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