🚨 New ep! 🚨 Sam Arbesman (@arbesman) joins us to discuss his latest book "The Magic of Code". We talk about cultivating open-endedness, revisiting tech history, complexity, simulations, and MUCH MORE. Timestamps: 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:43 Episode Introduction 0:02:06 Sam’s Sci-fi Origins 0:07:58 The Oral Tradition in Science and Technology 0:12:58 Cultivating the Unexpected 0:19:23 Open-Endedness and Large Language Models 0:26:12 “All Models Are Wrong, but Some Are Useful” 0:39:42 Culture’s Role in Shaping Everything 0:43:35 Patching Bugs in HumanOS 0:49:40 Tech History and Forgotten Innovations 0:57:38 A Tech Archaeology Fellowship 0:59:48 Humility and Knowledge 1:18:53 Learning Via Negativa 1:22:11 The Complexity of Our World 1:38:06 Sam’s Current Obsessions 1:43:20 Sam As Emperor of the World