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    <description><![CDATA[ A reading wiki of 47 talks on AI, law, creativity, power and mind: summaries, timestamped maps and deep dives. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 06:37:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Role of Humans in an Age of Intelligent Machines: Jobs, Inequality, Governance. Joanna Bryson</title>
    <link>https://talks.nikhilvelpanur.com/talks/bryson-humans-inequality-governance-intelligent-machines</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Can AI replace people? Bryson turns it into a different question: what do we, as a society, choose to do with the productivity AI gives us? ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Do we have relationships with AI? — Joanna Bryson on &quot;category failure&quot;, liability, grief bots and consciousness</title>
    <link>https://talks.nikhilvelpanur.com/talks/bryson-relationships-with-ai-category-failure</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The interviewer opens by asking Bryson to unpack a distinction she drew in earlier correspondence: the connections humans form to AI versus any relationship between humans and AI, which would imply a mutuality she rejects . ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Big Picture — Sean Carroll on poetic naturalism</title>
    <link>https://talks.nikhilvelpanur.com/talks/carroll-big-picture-poetic-naturalism</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ How can a universe of particles obeying equations contain causes, purposes, choices, right and wrong, and meaning, without any of these being faked? ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Teilhard de Chardin in the 21st Century — Georgetown panel (2015)</title>
    <link>https://talks.nikhilvelpanur.com/talks/georgetown-panel-teilhard-21st-century</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Central question (Frost, ). The PBS commissioners asked whether Teilhard is "outdated". Does he still have any relevance? The panel is the answer. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>A Collectivist, Economic View of AI — Michael I. Jordan</title>
    <link>https://talks.nikhilvelpanur.com/talks/jordan-collectivist-economic-view-of-ai</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Jordan asks "why are we doing this?" about AI. He thinks the public and policy dialogue is "horrific", full of science-fiction promises: "solve hunger", "solve climate change", "make the economy grow exponentially fast". He wants a "more sober" answer to… ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Hidden Ground, Acoustic Space, Lost Identity — Marshall McLuhan (1977)</title>
    <link>https://talks.nikhilvelpanur.com/talks/mcluhan-global-village-tetrad-1977</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ McLuhan's question is: what is the hidden ground behind a medium, and how does a new ground change the people who live in it? He does not set out a thesis in order. He moves by jokes, analogies and lists. The thread is this. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Nature of Creativity — Lewis Mumford (probable)</title>
    <link>https://talks.nikhilvelpanur.com/talks/mumford-the-nature-of-creativity</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Why do we talk about creativity so much today, and what is it? His answer to the first half: "We seek creativity in our time because of its very conspicuous absence" . He compares our talk of creativity to our talk of security: both arise from anxiety. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Self-Consciousness and the Master-Slave Dialectic — Gregory B. Sadler on Hegel</title>
    <link>https://talks.nikhilvelpanur.com/talks/sadler-hegel-master-slave-dialectic</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Sadler's question: how does consciousness become self-consciousness, and why does Hegel need a story of a master and a slave to answer it? He builds the answer in five steps. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Hegel&#039;s Phenomenology of Spirit, Introduction: Sadler&#039;s classroom walk-through</title>
    <link>https://talks.nikhilvelpanur.com/talks/sadler-hegel-phenomenology-introduction</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ How can philosophy start with knowledge when we cannot step outside knowledge to test it? Hegel's Introduction answers by changing the project. Instead of checking our knowing against reality from outside, we watch consciousness test itself against its own… ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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