Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAnthropic Thinks AI Might Destroy the Economy. It's Building It Anyway.
Today’s podcast is an interview with one of the cofounders of the AI company Anthropic, Jack Clark. One thing I’m trying to do with the subject of ar…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
America's Tax System Is Broken
If you're a typical worker with a salary, you have almost no control over how much tax you owe. But if you own a company worth billions of dollars, t…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Casino-ification of America
In 2017, Americans legally bet about $5 billion on sports. Last year, that number rose to $160 billion. Gambling hasn’t just taken over sports. It’s …
4 months ago
"Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question."
The AI buildout continues to break records, as the hyperscalers pour hundreds of billions of dollars into chips and data centers, even as investors p…
4 months ago
The Pill That Works Even When You Know It's Fake
Why do placebo effects work, even when patients know that they're taking a sugar pill? How do "nocebo" effects work, and why do some people hold onto…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Economic Crisis of the Iran War Goes Far Beyond Oil
The Strait of Hormuz is the tiny bottleneck that could destabilize the global economy. As a critical passageway for crude oil, natural gas, and criti…
4 months, 1 week ago
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"
What happens when the two biggest stories in the world—the Trump White House and the development of advanced artificial intelligence—collide? Well, n…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?
Season 5 Episode 13
Donald Trump’s polling has continued to edge down week after week. And yet approval of the Democratic Party is still stuck near its all-time low, acc…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Four Ways That the Iran War Could End
Season 5 Episode 12
Dramatic regime change. Moderate regime evolution. A calamitous regional conflict. Or … no change at all. Today we consider how the Iran conflict mig…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
How Metrics Make Us Miserable
Season 5 Episode 11
The modern world swims in numbers: work metrics, fitness metrics, health metrics, social media metrics. Sometimes the quantification of life can make…
4 months, 3 weeks ago