The Metagame

Feb 12 2025 33 ep. 81 mins 17
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Practical philosophy for playing with life.

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#33 - Richard Bartlett | Training Disagreeableness and Developing Taste

Feb 12 2025 84 mins  
Rich Bartlett helps people grow high-trust communities & decentralized organizations. He’s the co-founder the community building network Microsolidarity, and non-hierarchical management consultancy The Hum. He also co-runs Fight Wise an online course about developing courage in your relationships, standing up for yourself, skillfully navigating conflicts, and asking for what you

#32 - Brooke Bowman | Cultivating Agency, Building Vibecamp and Overcoming Heroin Addiction

Feb 03 2025 117 mins  
Brooke Bowman is the founder of Vibecamp. She also runs events to help foster connection and social cohesion such as Ms. Bowman's School for the Socially Inept, and The Network Society Camp. For nearly a decade before that, she was in an affair with heroin. Her mental and physical health declined slowly at first, then plummeted, leaving her sleeping on the streets of Los Angeles fo

#31 - Romeo Stevens | Reducing Neuroticism, Metalearning and Core Transformation

Jan 15 2025 87 mins  
Romeo Stevens is one of co-founders of the Qualia Research Institute and the founder of Mealsquares. He writes extensively about buddhism, pedagogy, skill development and psychotherapeutic modalities. You can find his work on his blog, Lesswrong and Twitter.Resources:* Romeo’s Twitter* Neurotic Gradient Descent (Romeo’s blog)* Math Academy * Practiceopedia (out of print music p

#30 - Douglas Tataryn | How to Process Emotions and Fully Heal

Nov 20 2024 91 mins  
Dr. Tataryn is a long-time meditator (47+ years) and founder of the Bio-Emotive Framework. He conducts seminars in integral theory, sports psychology, and the integration of psychology and spirituality. He also hosts emotional clearing workshops intensives around North America. His is presently working with advanced meditators and spiritual teachers on balancing life after enlighte

#29 - Stephen Zerfas | Jhanas and Hacking Agency

Nov 08 2024 65 mins  
Stephen Zerfas is the CEO and cofounder of Jhourney — a startup that targets specific meditative states known as jhanas using novel teaching methods and technology. Their first product is a week-long meditation retreat that’s won hyperbolic testimonials from tech executives and engineers (e.g. OpenAI, DeepMind). Most participants learn to enter states previously thought to requ

#28 - Soryu Forall | Spiritual Awakening and A.I. Alignment

Oct 02 2024 104 mins  
Soryu Forall is an ordained Zen Buddhist monk and the guiding teacher at the Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth (MAPLE) in Vermont. With over two decades of intensive monastic training, Forall was ordained in 1998 by Zen Master Shodo Harada at Sogen Temple in Japan. He has since trained in monasteries across India, Tibet, and China, and draws on various spiritua

#27 - Andrés Goméz-Emilsson | Qualia Research, Neural Annealing, Emotional Processing, DMT and Jhanas

Sep 24 2024 87 mins  
Andrés is the Co-founder and President of the Qualia Research Institute (QRI). He has a Master’s Degree in Psychology with an emphasis in computational models from Stanford and a professional background in graph theory, statistics, and affective science. His work at QRI ranges from algorithm design, to psychedelic theory, to neurotechnology development, to mapping and studying t

#26 - Michael Johnson | Jhanas, Awakening and Vasocomputation

Aug 05 2024 92 mins  
Michael Edward Johnson is a philosopher, neuroscientist and entrepreneur. He’s the author of Principia Qualia and the co-founder of the Qualia Research Institute. He’s done pioneering work at the intersection of mathematics and consciousness studies, seeking to systematically map and measure subjective experiences. He writes at opentheory.net.Resources:* Principles of Vasocompu

#25 - Marc Gafni | First Principles and First Values

Apr 03 2024 75 mins  
Dr. Marc Gafni has been described as a world philosopher, integrating wisdom from across multiple disciplines into what he has called a New Story of Value. He is the president of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion and has authored twelve books including Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment. Today we talk about his latest book First Principles and F

#24 - Michael Johnson | Qualia Formalism & The Symmetry Theory of Valence

Feb 06 2024 69 mins  
Michael Edward Johnson is a philosopher, neuroscientist and entrepreneur. He’s the author of Principia Qualia and the co-founder of the Qualia Research Institute. He’s done pioneering work at the intersection of mathematics and consciousness studies, seeking to systematically map and measure subjective experiences.Resources:* Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Budd