SummaryThis episode asks questions that the Sophists raised in fifth-century Athens and never fully resolved. When a school of thought is almost entirely known through the writings of its most powerful critic, how much of what we think we know is …
When leading AI companies such as Anthropic warn of "civilization" level risks from AI advances arriving within 1-2 years [1] , Professor Retz's framework invites us to ask: which historical narratives of progress implicitly shape these positions? T…
When one of the large AI companies announces that their new model will bring us "closer to AGI" (Artificial General Intelligence), what notion of progress, if any, are they invoking? When advocacy groups protest technological solutions to are…
Introducing Notions of Progress: A New PodcastWhat if many of our assumptions about technological progress rest on ideas formulated centuries ago—ideas we've inherited without examination? What if much of the current anxiety and uncertainty …