Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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An effort toward critical and generative relation with Forrest Landry’s thinking on the topic of Artificial Intelligence, existential risk, and the possibilities for meaningful response.

This was recorded for the Voicecraft Network's Humanity, Technology & Nature expedition, following a previous session engaging with Forrest’s Substrate Needs Convergence argument.

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Access the show notes for this podcast at @ voicecraft.io/content/e101-artificial-intelligence-existential-risk-mysticism-w/-forrest-landry-the-voicecraft-network

00:00 - Introduction
02:30 - Forrest Explains The Substrate Needs Convergence Argument
26:00 - The Need for Intuition, Instinct and Intellect To Inform Conscious Choice-Making
36:22 - Can There Be Empathy Between Machine Intelligence & Human Intelligence
49:46 - Intimacy, Intensity, The Mystical, And The Need For Spiritual Process
1:17:14 - Intention, Implication & Intensity
1:24:47 - Questions & Clarifying The Substrate Argument
1:40:10 - What Next?


Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0