Podcast Episodes

David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

David Deutsch is the founder of the field of quantum computing and the author The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality.

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Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Samo Burja - Founders, Markets, & Collapse

Samo Burja is the founder of Bismarck Analysis and a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation. Samo writes and speaks about history, institutions, and strategy, and he is the creator of the Great F…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Discussing Where's My Flying Car w/ Rohit Krishnan

Rohit Krishnan is a venture capitalist who writes about "the strange loops underlying our systems of innovation" at https://www.strangeloopcanon.com. 

We discussed J. Storrs. Hall's book Where Is My F…

Published on 3 years, 11 months ago

Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies

Byrne Hobart writes The Diff, a newsletter about inflections in finance and technology with 24,000+ subscribers.  

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Published on 4 years, 2 months ago

Roger's Bacon - Using Cults to Power Science

Roger's Bacon is a pseudonymous blogger and the creator of the new Seeds of Science journal.

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Seeds of Science: https:…

Published on 4 years, 3 months ago

David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation

David Friedman is a famous anarcho-capitalist economist and legal scholar.  

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Published on 4 years, 4 months ago

Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously

Sarah Fitz-Claridge is a writer, coach, and speaker with a fallibilist worldview. She started the journal that became Taking Children Seriously in the early 1990s after being surprised by the heated …

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress

Michael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of more than sixty academic articles in epistemology, ethics, metaethics, metaphysics, and political philos…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code

Robert Martin (aka Uncle Bob) is a programming pioneer and bestselling author or Clean Code. We discuss the prospect of automating programming, spotting and developing coding talent, occupational lic…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago

Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity

Scott Aaronson is a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, and director of its Quantum Information Center. 

He's the author of one of the most interesting blogs on the int…

Published on 5 years, 1 month ago