The Human Predicament: What Would Change My Mind | Frankly 158
This week's Frankly begins with a deceptively simple question Nate was asked in conversation: what would change his mind about The Great Simplification thesis? Nate uses the question as a jumping-off ...
11 Sep 18min
Banning Superintelligence: Are We Building Humanity's Replacement? with Roman Yampolskiy
The world's leading AI companies tell us that superintelligence has a strong chance of leading to human extinction, while also promising that they will be able to control it, offering unlimited power ...
9 Sep 53min
Turning the Dials Back on Psychopathy: Decent People, Indecent System | Frankly 157
This week's Frankly builds on Nate's recent conversation with systems theorist Greg Elliott, who came on the platform to discuss why our institutions themselves have become psychopathic and how that a...
4 Sep 38min
The Collapse of Our Mythology: Can Humanity Choose What's Next? with Charles Eisenstein
In this episode, Nate welcomes author and philosopher, Charles Eisenstein, for a long-requested conversation on the mythologies underneath civilization. For over two decades, Charles has argued that t...
2 Sep 1h 38min
Just Stop Oil!?: The Economic Foundation We Ignore | Frankly Archives 39 (2023)
This week's Frankly is an episode from summer of 2023, which is being re-released to provide context for one of the most important questions we face today: what is the role of energy, specifically oil...
28 Aug 31min
The Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis: The Rules of the Game Keep Us Trapped with Greg Elliott | TGS 231
Modern companies, markets, and institutions routinely behave in ways that would be diagnosed as pathological in a person: emotional detachment, strategic deception, grandiosity, and the treatment of p...
26 Aug 1h 41min
An Antidote to Despair: What Dogs Reveal About the Metacrisis | Frankly 156
This week, Nate turns a late-night emergency vet visit for one of his dogs into a broader reflection on the extraordinary relationship between dogs and humans. While dogs have been human companions fo...
21 Aug 18min
Material World: The Key Resources Underpinning Modern Economies with Ed Conway | Archive TGS 127
Current geopolitical events continue to expose just how complex and fragile our global economic system is. As such, The Great Simplification team is re-releasing this episode with Ed Conway, which cov...
19 Aug 1h 49min
