Reviews

This page will track intended and completed reviews of the SeedPods project. Reviews are of two kinds: reviews of individual seedpods, and reviews of the overall project and its goals.

Some invited early reviewers — my friends as alpha participants

• Josh and Alicia

• Alia Whitman

• Rebecca Strong

• Deva Temple

• Wendy Tremayne

• Ryan Lee

• Ivan Ickovits

• Kurt Albershardt

• Jim Balter

• Michael Garfield — writer, Humans on the Loop project

Professional reviewers

• Michael Pollan — author, consciousness and nature

• Annaka Harris — author, Conscious

• David Chalmers — philosopher, hard problem of consciousness

• Jason Silva — filmmaker, ideas and wonder

• Tam Hunt — UCSB, Mind World God (2017)

• Kevin Roose & Casey Newton – Hard Fork podcast

AI reviewers

As a meta-experiment consistent with the project’s themes, reviews by AI systems are also planned. Candidate systems: Claude (Anthropic), GPT-4 (OpenAI), Gemini (Google). The question of “what an AI review means” is itself a potential seedpod.

Review log

No reviews completed yet.