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Dreamers and Doomers: Jeremy Nixon at AGI House – #105
Season 2
Jeremy Nixon is a prominent AI researcher, entrepreneur, and the co-founder of AGI House, a leading "hacker house" community for artificial intellige…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Industrial Maximalism and Its Discontents: Dan Wang on US-China Competition – # 104
Season 2
Links:
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
https://www.amazon.com/Breakneck-Chinas-Quest-Engineer-Future/dp/1324106034
Dan's 2025 annual let…
5 months ago
Geopolitics 2026, crossover with Seeking Truth From Facts podcast – #103
Season 2
Steve and Alf discuss geopolitical events of 2025 and what they expect in 2026.
Links:
Manifold episode with Han Feizi, Letter From Beijing
https://www.…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Polygenics and Machine SuperIntelligence; Billionaires, Philo-semitism, and Chosen Embryos – #102
Season 2
This is a two-part episode. The first ~30m covers the most important 2025 breakthroughs in polygenic embryo screening, while the second 30m focuses s…
6 months ago
Theoretical Physics With Generative AI – #101
Season 2
All but the last 20 minutes of this episode should be comprehensible to non-physicists.
Steve explains where frontier AI models are in understanding f…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Jeffrey Epstein, Israel, and Elite Power, with Murtaza Hussain – #100
Season 2
Murtaza Hussain is a reporter for Drop Site News, which has broken
important stories based on recently obtained Epstein emails. Hussain
reports that Ep…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Jian Lian on China's Industrial Policy and Global Strategy – #99
Season 2
Jian Lian is an expert on China's political economy, industrial development, and technological development. He graduated from Peking University with …
7 months, 1 week ago
Scott Horton on the Russia Hoax and Ukraine War – #98
Season 2
Scott Horton is the author of Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. Horton is a libertarian a…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
AIs Win Math Olympiad Gold: Prof. Lin Yang (UCLA) – #97
Season 2
Lin Yang is a professor of computer science at UCLA. Recently, he and his collaborator built an AI pipeline using commercial models such as Gemini, C…
8 months, 1 week ago
The Global AI Race: Z.ai and the View from Beijing — #96
Season 2
Zixuan Li is Director of Product and genAI Strategy at Z.ai. He was educated at Renmin and Tsinghua University in China, and at MIT and Carnegie Mell…
8 months, 3 weeks ago