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EP 318 Adam B. Levine on Thinking on Demand
Season 1 Episode 318
Jim talks with Adam B. Levine about humanity's rapidly changing relationship with AI and "thinking on demand." They discuss the GPT-5 release & prici…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
EP 317 David Shapiro on Post-Labor Economics
Season 1 Episode 317
Jim talks with David Shapiro about his six-part series on "post-labor economics." They discuss historical economic transitions, the logic of labor su…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
EP 316 Ken Stanley on the AI Representation Problem
Season 1 Episode 316
Jim talks with Ken Stanley about the Fractured Entanglement Representation hypothesis in deep learning neural networks. They discuss open-endedness i…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
EP 315 Ed Latimore on Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business
Season 1 Episode 315
Jim talks with Ed Latimore about his new book Hard Lessons from the Hurt Business: Boxing and the Art of Life. They discuss Ed's chess playing & stre…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
EP 314 Zak Stein and Marc Gafni on the Nature of Everything
Season 1 Episode 314
Jim talks with Zak Stein and Marc Gafni about consciousness, attention, and value as fundamental aspects of reality. They explore continuity & discon…
8 months ago
EP 313 Chris Colin on Why Customer Service Sucks
Season 1 Episode 313
Jim talks with Chris Colin about his recent Atlantic article "That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose." They discuss customer serv…
8 months, 1 week ago
EP 312 Lee Cronin on Automating Chemistry
Season 1 Episode 312
Jim talks with Lee Cronin about Chemify, his startup that aims to automate chemistry through "chemifarms" that turn code into molecules. They discuss…
8 months, 1 week ago
EP 311 Nicholas Humphrey on the Invention of Consciousness
Season 1 Episode 311
Jim talks with Nicholas Humphrey about the ideas in his 2023 book Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness. They discuss the distinction between sen…
8 months, 1 week ago
EP 310 Samo Burja on Anduril's Plan to Modernize the US Military
Season 1 Episode 310
Jim talks with Samo Burja about his report on the defense startup Anduril's plan to modernize the U.S. military. They discuss "live players vs. dead …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
EP 309 Richard David Hames on the Final Performance of Western Civilization?
Season 1 Episode 309
Jim talks with Richard David Hames, picking up from the ideas in his recent Facebook essay about the decline of Western civilization. They discuss th…
8 months, 3 weeks ago