Podcast

Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine

Plus, how VLA models work, self-improvement from deployment, and China’s hardware advantage

Sep 12 •

1:28:28

How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine

“The only thing that really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril” – Winston Churchill

Sep 5 •

1:35:17

Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel

Is the answer already in our genome?

Aug 21 •

1:44:39

China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer

Plus, how solar fits into the next 10 years

Aug 15 •

1:08:21

Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard

“Chickens are unbeatable at converting grain into protein”

Aug 7 •

1:08:04

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

A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church

The man behind the last few decades of biotech breakthroughs

Jun 26 •

1:33:44

Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — 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

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