Podcast Episodes

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 halt AI, why LLMs make alignment harder, what it …

Published on 2 years, 8 months 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 spies

* what's after generative models

* post AGI f…

Published on 2 years, 9 months 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 volcanic ashes spewed by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD - whic…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Brett Harrison — FTX US former president speaks out

I flew out to Chicago to interview Brett Harrison, who is the former President of FTX US President and founder of Architect.

In his first longform interview since the fall of FTX, he speak in great de…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & managerial revolution

My podcast with the brilliant Marc Andreessen is out!

We discuss:

* how AI will revolutionize software

* whether NFTs are useless, & whether he should be funding flying cars instead

* a16z's biggest vuln…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy

Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University and the author of The Cultural Transplant, Hive Mind, and 10% Less Democracy.

This episode was fun and interesting throughout!

He explains:

* Why …

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high

One of my best episodes ever. Lars Doucet is the author of Land is a Big Deal, a book about Georgism which has been praised by Vitalik Buterin, Scott Alexander, and Noah Smith. Sam Altman is the lead…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Holden Karnofsky — History's most important century

Holden Karnofsky is the co-CEO of Open Philanthropy and co-founder of GiveWell. He is also the author of one of the most interesting blogs on the internet, Cold Takes.

We discuss:

* Are we living in th…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Aarthi & Sriram - Twitter, 10x Engineers, & Marriage

I had fun chatting with Aarthi and Sriram.

We discuss what it takes to be successful in technology, what Sriram would say if Elon tapped him to be the next CEO of Twitter, why more married couples don…

Published on 3 years ago

Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries

This was one of my favorite episodes ever.

Bethany McLean was the first reporter to question Enron’s earnings, and she has written some of the best finance books out there.

We discuss:

* The astounding …

Published on 3 years ago