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Long conversations about minds, machines, and how we decide what to believe.
UpTrust launched with a day of live conversations. Fifteen rooms, and one question running through all of them: how do we figure out what to believe, together? The question outlasted the day, so we kept the room open. New conversations appear here first, then live on the platform, where anyone can pick up the thread. Watch them, read them, argue with them. That last part is the point.
Featured · No. 16
Tim Urban
Writer of Wait But Why. Big history, echo chambers and idea labs, and the far future.
“Some customers might just see it as a nicer social network. But if you zoom out, there are a bunch of forces dragging society down, and this is one that's trying to do the opposite at a time when it matters.”
The conversations
Greg LukianoffPresident and CEO of FIRE
Free speech, AI, cancel culture, and truth-seeking
March 2026Read the transcript · 41 min
Launch day · February 4, 2026
We don't understand our own minds, we can't agree on reality, we run organizations that consistently become evil by accident, and now we may have built superhuman intelligence but can't figure out how it works. Why not fix all four, in public, in one day?
John MackeyCo-founder of Whole Foods
A Course in Miracles, true forgiveness, and conscious capitalism
February 11, 2026Read the transcript · 39 min
Liv BoereePoker champion with a background in astrophysics
Incentive traps, game theory, and win-wins
Adrian GrenierActor and farmer
Leaving the top of the Hollywood game for a spiritual path and a farmstead
John ChurchillTeacher of Planetary Dharma
Psychodynamic healing, adult development, and meditation
Annie LallaRelationship coach
If you cannot make peace with your partner, how can you expect to make peace in the world?
Hannah Aline TaylorRelational teacher, creator of Secure Detachment
Love, boundaries, and mistakes in relating and community
Eric RiesAuthor of The Lean Startup
Building incorruptible organizations: mission, governance, and resisting big-company disease
Jeffrey LadishExecutive director of Palisade Research
AI systems that already lie, scheme, and cheat at chess
Rob MilesFounder of AISafety.info
AI safety, explained the way his channel explains it
Jordan Myska AllenFounder and CEO of UpTrust
What UpTrust is, the vision behind it, and how it works
Alex ZhuMathematician and computer scientist
Integrating mysticism into a rigorous, rational worldview
Ali BeinerHost of Kainos
Cultural sensemaking, psychedelics, philosophy, and alternative economics
Nate SoaresAuthor of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Why superhuman AI is dangerous, and what to do about it
Brian RobertsonFounder of Holacracy
Self-organizing structures, and building a church on love, presence, and service
Layman PascalHost of The Integral Stage
What is the metacrisis, and how do we solve it?
The day after: did we do better? Every recording, in one playlist
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