Podcast

Sarah Paine: How Imperial Japan Defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China

Plus, the most lopsided naval battle in human history

Jul 25 •

1:55:37

Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin Became the Most Powerful Dictator in History

The most consequential figure of the 20th century

Jul 10 •

2:12:40

George Church — A Billion Years of Evolution in a Single Afternoon

The man behind the last few decades of biotech breakthroughs

Jun 26 •

1:33:44

China’s Manufacturing Dominance: State Directives & Ruthless Competition — Arthur Kroeber

“China wants it all, and they can have it"

Jun 19 •

2:26:43

“China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin.” — Ken Rogoff

A debt shock is coming for both China and the US.

Jun 12 •

1:36:04

Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

Or, how China’s political system actually works

May 29 •

1:29:08

Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

Scaling reinforcement learning, tracing circuits, and the path to fully autonomous agents

May 22 •

2:24:01

Mark Zuckerberg — AI Will Write Most Meta Code in 18 Months

“The world is going to get a lot funnier, weirder, and quirkier.”

Apr 29 •

1:15:02

Why Rome Actually Fell: Plagues, Slavery, & Ice Age — Kyle Harper

...and how it could have survived

Apr 24 •

1:23:27

AGI is Still 30 Years Away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

The economy will literally double every year afterwards

Apr 17 •

3:08:28

2027 Intelligence Explosion: Month-by-Month Model — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo

Misaligned hive minds, Xi and Trump waking up, and automated Ilyas accelerating AI progress

Apr 3 •

3:04:26

AMA ft. Sholto & Trenton: New Book, Career Advice Given AGI, How I'd Start From Scratch

"The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025" out now on Stripe Press!

Mar 25 •

49:33

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