Podcast Episodes

Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake

I learned so much from Sarah Paine, Professor of History and Strategy at the Naval War College.

We discuss:

- how continental vs maritime powers think …

2 years, 6 months ago

George Hotz vs Eliezer Yudkowsky AI Safety Debate

George Hotz and Eliezer Yudkowsky hashed out their positions on AI safety.

It was a really fun debate. No promises but there might be a round 2 where …

2 years, 7 months ago

Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough

Here is my conversation with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.

Dario is hilarious and has fascinating takes on what these models are doing, why they sca…

2 years, 7 months ago

Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail

A few weeks ago, I sat beside Andy Matuschak to record how he reads a textbook.

Even though my own job is to learn things, I was shocked with how much…

2 years, 8 months ago

Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future

The second half of my 7 hour conversation with Carl Shulman is out!

My favorite part! And the one that had the biggest impact on my worldview.

Here, Ca…

2 years, 9 months ago

Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment

In terms of the depth and range of topics, this episode is the best I’ve done.

No part of my worldview is the same after talking with Carl Shulman. He…

2 years, 9 months ago

Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb

It was a tremendous honor & pleasure to interview Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb

We discuss

- similarit…

2 years, 10 months ago

Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality

For 4 hours, I tried to come up reasons for why AI might not kill us all, and Eliezer Yudkowsky explained why I was wrong.

We also discuss his call to…

3 years ago

Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence

I went over to the OpenAI offices in San Fransisco to ask the Chief Scientist and cofounder of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, about:

* time to AGI

* leaks and…

3 years ago

Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI

It is said that the two greatest problems of history are: how to account for the rise of Rome, and how to account for her fall. If so, then the volca…

3 years ago