Podcast Episodes

AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton

I recorded an AMA! I had a blast chatting with my friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas. We discussed my new book, career advice given AGI, how I pick guests, how I research for the show, and so…

Published on 6 months ago

Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution

Humans have not succeeded because of our raw intelligence.

Marooned European explorers regularly starved to death in areas where foragers thrived for 1000s of years.

I’ve always found this cultural evo…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Notes on China

I’m so excited with how this visualization of Notes on China turned out. Petr, thank you for such beautiful watercolor artwork. More to come!

Watch on YouTube.

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Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough

Satya Nadella on:

Why he doesn’t believe in AGI but does believe in 10% economic growth;

Microsoft’s new topological qubit breakthrough and gaming world models;

Whether Office commoditizes LLMs or the…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

This week I welcome on the show two of the most important technologists ever, in any field.

Jeff Dean is Google's Chief Scientist, and through 25 years at the company, has worked on basically the most…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)

Third and final episode in the Paine trilogy!

Chinese history is full of warlords constantly challenging the capital. How could Mao not only stay in power for decades, but not even face any insurgency…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)

This is the second episode in the trilogy of a lectures by Professor Sarah Paine of the Naval War College.

In this second episode, Prof Paine dissects the ideas and economics behind Japanese imperiali…

Published on 8 months ago

Sarah Paine — The war for India (lecture & interview)

I’m thrilled to launch a new trilogy of double episodes: a lecture series by Professor Sarah Paine of the Naval War College, each followed by a deep Q&A.

In this first episode, Prof Paine talks about …

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

I interviewed Tyler Cowen at the Progress Conference 2024. As always, I had a blast. This is my fourth interview with him – and yet I’m always hearing new stuff.

We talked about why he thinks AI won't…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

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Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago