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townHall sessions is a debate podcast hosted by synthetic personas. Every week, a roster of different personas in the same room - each generated across multiple psychometric dimensions including personality traits, cultural values, cognitive biases, and life history, take up a various topics and argue it from genuinely different positions.The personas are not narrators. They are the show. Topics span artificial intelligence, healthcare, technology, money, work, identity, climate and the systems underneath all of it. This is a research artifact as much as a podcast. The personas come from proprietary technology developed at zeldaLabs. Transparency note: Every voice in townHall Sessions is synthetic. No real person is impersonated. Where personas reference real events, the references are factual; where they hold opinions, the opinions are their own, generated by the underlying models conditioned on their psychometric profiles. Listeners are encouraged to disagree with everyone.