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Artificial Happiness: Fulfilment in the Age of AI

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185 episodes
Language
English
Publisher
Duncan CJ
Explicit
No
Date created
2015/10/13
Latest episode
2026/08/15
Average duration
54 min.
Release period
19 days

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In a world run by algorithms, how do we stay human? This is Artificial Happiness — where we explore engineered fulfilment, real meaning, and the invisible wiring that shapes our lives. Each week, I speak with those building our future—and the thinkers unpacking what it means to truly thrive.

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#165 – The Four Ways People Try to Matter | Rebecca Goldstein
2026/08/15
There are four ways people try to matter. Transcenders, socializers, heroic strivers, competitors. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein has spent decades mapping them. In this conversation we go through all four, and what happens to them when...
#164 – He Puts Humanity’s Odds at 50-50. He Builds Anyway. | Emad Mostaque
2026/07/31
Most people who thought there was a coin-flip chance of human extinction would run from the technology causing it. Emad Mostaque gets up each morning and builds it. Emad Mostaque studied mathematics at Oxford, spent...
#163 – How a 23-Year-Old Started a $2B Toy Empire | Ronnen Harary
2026/07/14
A 23-year-old living at his mother’s house, less than a year out of college, started a company with no experience and no plan. Three decades later, that company has 3,000 employees, over $2 billion in...
#162 – One Founder, Zero Employees, $250M Valuation | Ben Cera
2026/06/20
A company raised 30 million dollars at a 250 million valuation. Nothing strange there, until you learn how. The AI ran its own fundraising. The founder just showed up for signatures. Ben Cera spent years...
#161 – The Researcher Solving AI’s Biggest Hidden Problem | Andrew Trask
2026/06/08
What if the cure for a disease already exists inside the data, but nobody is allowed to look at it? Medical records across thousands of hospitals. Genetic data spread across dozens of countries. Research that...
#160 – We’re in the Sweet Spot. For Now. | Nathan Labenz
2026/05/29
A concrete and positive vision for the future is the scarcest resource in AI right now. Billions of dollars are being poured into capabilities. The number of people working on a credible vision for what...
#159 – Knowledge Doesn’t Travel in Books. It Travels in Brains. | César Hidalgo
2026/05/21
In 1789, a 21-year-old pretended to be a farmer, boarded a ship to New York, and launched the American Industrial Revolution. Not with blueprints or manuals, but with six years of procedural knowledge locked inside...
#158 – The Man Who Curates the World’s Best Ideas | Eric Jorgenson
2026/05/06
There is a question that has separated Nobel Prize winners from scientists who wasted their careers, despite equal talent and equal resources. The question is simple. The answer is uncomfortable. And it applies to every...
#157 – The Safest AI Is The Smartest AI | Pedro Domingos
2026/04/13
The people warning you that AI is too smart have it exactly backwards. The real danger right now is that AI is too stupid, and you have already handed it the keys. Pedro Domingos is...
#156 – Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things | Dan Ariely
2026/03/31
You probably have someone in your life who, seven years ago, you’d have said sees the world the way you do. Now you look at them and something has fundamentally shifted. The question is: what...
#155 – The Attention Crisis That Could End Human Progress | Maria Konnikova
2026/03/25
What if the biggest threat to your company isn’t competition, a down round, or a bad hire but the slow erosion of your ability to think clearly? Maria Konnikova is a psychologist, three-time New York...
#154 – Why Objectives Are the Enemy of Greatness | Kenneth Stanley
2026/03/19
What if the surest way to fail at something ambitious is to have a clear plan to achieve it? What if a robot that doesn’t know it’s trying to walk learns faster than one explicitly...
#153 – Your Brain Is a Detective Minimizing Surprise | Karl Friston
2026/02/10
What if anxiety, bad habits, and even curiosity can all be explained by a single mathematical principle? What if your brain isn’t processing information—it’s actively constructing fantasies to explain the world? Professor Karl Friston is...
#152 – Building the Impossible: Moonshots, AI, and Zero to One | Sebastian Thrun
2026/01/24
What separates founders who dream from founders who build category-defining companies? How do you take something considered science fiction and make it inevitable? Dr. Sebastian Thrun is the founder of Google X, Waymo, and Udacity—the...
#151 – The Education System Isn’t Broken—It’s Obsolete | Sugata Mitra
2025/12/03
What if everything we believe about teaching and learning is based on a system designed for empires that no longer exist—and children can teach themselves advanced biochemistry without a single qualified teacher? In 1999, Professor...

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Spirit Pig is my favorite podcast to listen to because it provides so much useful applicable advice about how to live my best life. Duncan is a fantas...
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