Podcast

Mark Zuckerberg – Meta's AGI Plan

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

Apr 29 •

1:15:22

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

Joseph Henrich – Why Humans Survived and Smarter Species Didn't

Plus how the Catholic Church accidentally caused the Industrial Revolution

Mar 12 •

1:52:59

Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough

AGI is not the real benchmark: 10% economic growth is

Feb 19 •

1:16:09

Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer – 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Two of Gemini's co-leads on Google's path to AGI

Feb 12 •

2:14:43

Sarah Paine Episode 3: How Mao Conquered China

How did Mao go from military genius to peacetime disaster? How can someone shrewd enough to win a civil war outnumbered 5 to 1 decide "let's kill all…

Jan 30 •

1:48:13

Sarah Paine Episode 2: Why Japan Lost (Lecture & Interview)

Continuing our WWII series: the ideas and economics behind Japanese imperialism and the fatal flaw in their military culture that cost them the war

Jan 23 •

2:08:12

Sarah Paine Episode 1: The War For India (Lecture & Interview)

First of three new lectures from Professor Paine, followed by my questions. This time: Mao v Khrushchev v Nehru v LBJ

Jan 16 •

2:12:58

Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

Why he thinks AI won't drive explosive economic growth

Jan 9 •

59:44

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