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The Local Maximum

Summary: Join Max Sklar and guests in this podcast about AI, technology, and society. Email localmaxradio@gmail.com for questions and feedback. Show notes page on the website: http://www.localmaxradio.com

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 Ep. 172 - The Fourth Turning Part I - Cycles of History | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:53:58

Max and Aaron dive into the theory of the Fourth Turning and the cycles of history as put forth in the 1997 book of the same name by Strauss and Howe. CORRECTION: Jerry Seinfeld is a classic boomer, not in Gen X

 Ep. 171 - Ransomware, Security First, and Crypto-corporations | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:38:01

Max talks about the recent ransomware attack on the colonial pipeline that let to gas shortages in the southeastern US, how this could encourage security-first principles in design, and the promise and flexibility of crypto-corporations.

 Ep. 170 - Bayesian Inference Regulations and Network Algorithms | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:33:42

Today’s episode discusses the proposed regulations of AI from the European Union, including regulations on Bayesian Inference. This includes the danger and folly of regulating mathematics, but also good practices for decision making and transparency. Finally, we cover graph algorithms, PageRank, and Split Complex Numbers for online dating recommendations.

 Ep. 169 - Basecamp’s Boundary on Politics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:57:49

Basecamp asks employees not to discuss too much politics at work, and some of them (plus the media) freak out! The Local Maximum gets a new setup.

 Ep. 168 - Urban Augment Reality with Iracema Trevisan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:35:57

Designer, artist and researcher Iracema Trevisan talks to Max about the future of Augmented Reality in cities.

 Ep. 167 - Blockchain Rising: Wordproof and DeFi | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:49:28

Today's guest is Sebastiaan ven der Lans, founder of wordproof with a goal to fight fake news through blockchain technology. Max and Sebastiaan talk about this application of blockchain. Later, Max gives an introduction to Decentralized Finance (defi).

 Ep. 166 - Lockdown Memory Holes and Rates of Return | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:39:31

Today Max discusses the efforts by media and tech giants to censor all alternative viewpoints on the Covid Lockdowns, and efficacy of the lockdowns themselves. Are there any remaining justifications for them? He also discusses 2 ways of looking at investments and gambling: expected value and expected rate of return, and why you might want to prefer the latter.

 Ep 165 - Peter McCormack of the What Bitcoin Did Podcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:42:30

Today’s guest Peter McCormack is the host of the highly acclaimed What Bitcoin Did podcast. We cover the recent history of getting into Bitcoin with infighting around block sizes and custodial solutions to the near future where Bitcoiners are becoming more confident in achieving their goals of rebooting the world economy on a solid foundation. localmaxradio.com/165

 Ep. 164 - Anne Griffin on Attracting Employers and AI Product | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:00:07

Today’s guest is Anne Griffin, a leader in product management, a startup advisor, and subject matter expert in AI, blockchain, tech ethics and product inclusivity.

 Ep. 163 - Flying Cars, Causality, and Digital Art Storage Concerns | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:51:47

Today's March News Update includes: - NFTs, concerns about how they are being stored, Filecoin - Jetson's Act in New Hampshire to legalize flying cars - Talk about causality and its trickiness in AI

 Ep. 162 - Assaf Lev - Cofounder and CEO of Locals | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:37:36

Today we talk to Assaf Lev who is the cofounder and CEO of Locals.com. Assaf Founded locals in 2019 along with Dave Rubin as an alternative social space for independent creators.

 Ep. 161 - Fighting for Free Speech with Sam Jacobs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:40:21

Max talks to Sam Jacobs of the Resistance Library Podcast and Ammo.com about the war being wages on free speech by large tech corporations and platforms.

 Ep160 - Digital Art, Tokens, and Rationalists | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:42:19

Today's Local Maximum dives into a recently popular idea of "non-fungible tokens" to represent art ownership, and also dive into a New York Times article about the rationalist community.

 Ep. 159 - Gresham's Law, More Google Drama, Self Driving San Francisco | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:38:53

In today's February News update, we go over Gresham's Law, more firings at the Google AI ethics lab, Waymo expanding driverless cars to San Francisco, and the future and past of audio with the passing of Rush Limbaugh and the rise of Clubhouse.

 Ep. 158 - Live Free or Die | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:38:53

Max brings Aaron on the show to make an announcement on moving to the state of New Hampshire. The Local Maximum gets a new home base, and reflections on nearly 15 years in New York City - both from working in software/tech to the city lifestyle.

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