Wisdom of Crowds

5 days ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Samuel Kimbriel |Santi Ruiz

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -40:05Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Is tech replacing humanity? Or is it sharpening the question of what it means to be human? What does it mean to live a good life — as opposed to passable life? What features of humanity become more important by contrast and necessity in the technological age? Is it possible to find a higher version of humanity in order to thrive?

2 weeks ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic

Earlier this week, Wisdom of Crowds recorded a live episode of the show at Bistro Cacao here in DC with the great (audio coming soon). The topic was Artificial Intelligence and what it’s doing to humanity; if these things really achieve the promise that our Silicon Valley overlords are heralding, how will not only our lives, but our very sense of meaning, purpose and relationship to the world be changed? Me, I came down hard on the doom-and-gloom side of the ledger.

2 weeks ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:15:14Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. As subscribers of Wisdom of Crowds will know, the war in Gaza has preoccupied for over a year now, and has taken a central place in his political thinking. begins this episode by challenging Shadi on this point. Is he giving too much importance to one political and moral cause over all others? And is he giving too much importance to morality as such in geopolitics?

3 weeks ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -1:15:14Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. As subscribers of Wisdom of Crowds will know, the war in Gaza has preoccupied for over a year now, and has taken a central place in his political thinking. begins this episode by challenging Shadi on this point. Is he giving too much importance to one political and moral cause over all others? And is he giving too much importance to morality as such in geopolitics?

3 weeks ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid

I’m not as “open-minded” as I used to be. This puts me in a somewhat awkward position as someone who has long argued that basically nothing — and no one — should be beyond the pale when it comes to debating, short of actual, current members of terrorist organizations and admitted white supremacists. Wisdom of Crowdsis against consensus, so we seek out difference even when it’s uncomfortable. That’s the point.