David Wood

[gentle music] Welcome back to the London Futurists Podcast.

I'm David Wood, a survivor from the early days of the smartphone industry, who aspires nowadays to be a radical real-world futurist.

And I'm Calum Chace, a co-founder of the AI safety startup Conscium, and a writer and keynote speaker on the future of AI.

Our topic in this episode is a new book that has just been published, Perspectives on Machine Consciousness.

We'll put the links in the show notes.

[outro jingle] Thanks very much, Calum, for talking us through that.

Thanks, David.

And then climate change.

David brought some people up onto the stage to interview.

One was Clarissa Valdez, who just wrote the book Prophecy about the pitfalls of prediction.

That was an excellent interview.

We pitch as the longevity dividend.

And there was some discussion.

Well, we had Aubrey de Grey as one of the folks that David Wood interviewed, and he talked about, you know, the fact that his timelines used to be more optimistic about progress towards longevity escape velocity, but that basically he blames everything on the lack of funding.

If you've just given us the money, we could have gotten there.

And speaking of that, I want to just start with what led you into not just the podcast, but you started with this idea.

David Wood was your first guest and there are rarely accidents.

Was he a person that you needed permission from to be able to kind of do what you wanted to do at a very big level? Or was this something that gave you inspiration once you had that first conversation with him to get the ball rolling with what you're doing now?

Ah, how deep do you want to go? Yeah.

I've got three older brothers and he's my closest.

In age, we're closest, so we spend a lot of time growing up together.

Anyway, so he was going through this dark spot and he was listening to this podcast from David T.S. Wood.

And I was like, okay, cool.

Where have you sold what, Bruno Faleck?

if we switch then I mean I'm going to draw a line under the city thing now very good discussion very enjoyable and quite cathartic to be honest Julian Ward has been reappointed as the sporting director it was rumoured for quite a few weeks that that was going to be the case apparently we did speak to the chap here at Brentford as well whose name escapes me right now Lee

something or other

yeah that's the one Lee Tykes is it

in the life for possibly fsg selling up and just to keep things ticking over if you like um until that eventually happens but yeah it is a very safe may appointment um yeah i mean the brent the brent for fella oh you know we were linked to that would have been exciting because obviously the way brentford uh operates it's how i want us to operate um on obviously a bit of a bigger scale of course but the core values of how they operate, that's how I'd like us to operate.

But yeah, obviously, what's that

sporting director, David Wood, what's his name, Woodfine? David Woodfine.

Woodfine, yeah, yeah.

And I do agree to an extent that Slot was used as an easy target or scapegoat to be like, well... you don't think they're getting away with it, and it's all on the manager, like, yes, a lot of it was on the manager, but it wasn't all on the manager, so, I am rambling now, but do let me know in your comments below all of this, and what you think of Jamie Carragher's comments, who needs to be stepping up more this season, and, yeah, just your general thoughts on Liverpool at the minute, because I know we're getting back to our better self, and we're getting back to some sort of positivity, but I would like a little bit more as well, so, do let me know in the comments below what you think of all this.

In saying that though, and look to make a final point on all this, I think, Carragher is definitely on to something not with the spending of money but I think it's just like the profile of players we've been getting and like just the general squad planning so I hope the next sporting director can do a better job I am glad to see the back of Richard Hughes hopefully we'll see an appointment that kind of shakes up a bit like I know some of the main technical analysts and stuff have gone with Richard Hughes with Audi it's looking like it'll be an internal candidate someone like Pedro Marquez or Julian Ward, maybe, I don't know who else, there's probably some sort of intern, maybe David Wood finally steps up from the Assistant Sporting Director role, but hopefully in the future we can see just a better fleshing out of the squad, particularly with new ownership coming in as well, maybe we can spend a bit more frivolously in terms of all positions rather than just going big.

on the front and then not having the budget for the rest of the players so hopefully a brighter future ahead of us and yeah i'm just i'm rambling i am rambling now so i will end this video thank you very much for watching hit the subscribe button if you want to see more ferry content of course and um yeah lewis will have plenty of videos out on here we have plenty of videos out on the main channel today as well uh craig will be live this evening and the boardman preview should be coming out tomorrow morning as well so thank you very much for watching this video and i'll see you very very soon

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