The Judgment Call Podcast
#96 Alexander Bard (The philosophy of everything)
00:00:30 How Alexander and his co-author Jan have ma...
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Jun 15 2021 1h 43m
Chapter 1 4 mins
How Alexander and his co-author Jan have managed to produce such an enormous (and prophetic) body of written work over the last 20 yearsChapter 2 4 mins
What Alexander thinks about postmodernism?Chapter 3 4 mins
What are 'Netocrats'? How is the world changing due to the Internet? Who is ready for the digital future and who is not?Chapter 4 5 mins
What is the future of (representative) democracy and politics in general? What is a 'sensocracy'?Chapter 5 4 mins
How should a 'world government' work? How much subsidiarity will it allow? What role will 'charter cities' play?Chapter 6 2 mins
Will we be able to switch between city state benevolent dictatorships (i.e. will countries/ cities be run like companies) as part of our life?Chapter 7 3 mins
Why was Jesus Christ actually killed & the surprising utility of 'empires'Chapter 8 3 mins
How our future laws are already emerging throughout InternetChapter 9 7 mins
Is competition increasing for companies? Should we react with more collaboration to improve our competitiveness?Chapter 10 2 mins
What role do Internet platforms play? Do they actually have a monopoly?Chapter 11 5 mins
Is marketing as a whole evil? How has it changed over the years and how it is connected to 'attentionalism'? We will abolish advertising soon to protect our 'sacred space'?Chapter 12 7 mins
Why is productivity growth so low? Are we not daring enough? Is the focus on marketing ('useless products') to blame?Chapter 13 1 min
Why wars (as terrible as they are) are good measures of productivity and ideologyChapter 14 7 mins
After the 'Death of God' and the 'Death of the Individual' how are we now orient ourselves?Chapter 15 3 mins
Why 'native tribes' don't see a crisis of meaning or depression currently? Why some religions are more static than othersChapter 16 6 mins
What is our best bet for a future religion? Is it likely to emerge or will we have to live with many parallel truths? Will we see 'weird activism' instead?Chapter 17 6 mins
Why the world will look more like India and Singapore soon?Chapter 18 2 mins
What surprised Alexander the most (compared to his predictions) the within the last 20 years?Chapter 19 4 mins
What will happen in 2038? Will AGI actually emerge by itself?Chapter 20 12 mins
Are we (co-)created by an alien intelligence? Is the multiverse theory useful? Should we investigate spacetime more thoroughly?