Podcast Episodes

Transistor Radio: H20, GPT5, DUI Lawyers, Ajinomoto

Jon, Doug, Dylan and Wei join the chat to talk export controls and GPT5.

Books Doug and I like:

Jonathan Spence's Search for Modern China Gavan …

1 year, 2 months ago

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EMERGENCY POD: H20s to China + 15% with Chris Miller and Lennart

So we're selling AI chips to China now. Chris Miller, author of Chip Wars, and Lennart Heim at RAND join to discuss:

What are the tradeoffs involv…

1 year, 2 months ago

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Second Breakfast: A New Defense Pod

We talk AGI nihilism in the Taiwan fight, combined arms breach, and Palmer Luckey's Taiwan speech. Part 2 explores Detachment 201, the evolution of t…

1 year, 2 months ago

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Dissent from Moscow to Beijing

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement — the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Professor Ben Nathans — is…

1 year, 3 months ago

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Betting on Chaos: Professionals in Prediction Markets

What does it take to make a living betting on politics? Can prediction markets offer insights about the future that other analyses cannot?

To find ou…

1 year, 3 months ago

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Where Japan Goes Next

Tobias Harris of the Observing Japan substack https://observingjapan.substack.com/ joins to discuss the latest Japanese election, how we got here, an…

1 year, 3 months ago

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Xi Zhongxun's Second Act: 1949-1989

This is part two of our series with Joseph Torigian, author of the definitive biography of Xi Zhongxun. This episode traces the inner world of a man …

1 year, 3 months ago

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Trump and Japan

Why has Japan fallen out of Trump’s good graces? Will Japan close a deal with the US before tariffs take effect? And how will the upcoming Japanese e…

1 year, 3 months ago

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Xi Zhongxun: The Party's Interests Come First

Joseph Torigian’s The Party’s Interest Comes First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping is a monumental scholarly achievement — easily a co…

1 year, 3 months ago

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Overfit: AI and Media, America's Deepseek, Plots

Nathan Lambert (https://www.interconnects.ai/), Jasmine Sun (https://jasmi.news/) and I kick off a new series 'Overfit' to talk how AI is shaping the…

1 year, 3 months ago

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