Notable Guests
AE
America's Innovation Engine
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AK
Arthur Kroeber
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CH
Casey Handmer
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DP
Dylan Patel
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JK
Jacob Kimmel
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KR
Ken Rogoff
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KH
Kyle Harper
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LB
Lewis Bollard
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NI
Nurturing Orphaned Ideas
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SP
Sarah Paine
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SL
Sergey Levine
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Recent Episodes
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Kepler's ingenious discovery of planetary motion laws.
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Dylan Patel discusses AI compute bottlenecks: logic, memory, and power.
Dylan Patel
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Discusses AI's structural favorability towards mass surveillance.
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Ada Palmer shares wild Renaissance history, including Gutenberg's bankruptcy.
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Dario Amodei predicts AGI within years, comparing it to a "country of geniuses."
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Elon Musk discusses orbital data centers as economically superior to Earth-based facilities for AI compute, citing power scaling challenges on the ground
Elon Musk
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Adam Marblestone argues AI is missing fundamental insights about how the brain learns from minimal data and proposes neuroscience-informed approaches to improve AI generalization
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Discusses what metrics actually measure in AI scaling and challenges the narrative that economic diffusion lag proves slow AI progress
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Sarah Paine examines multiple factors in Soviet collapse: US pressure, Sino-Soviet border conflict, oil bust, ethnic rebellions, and Catholic Church influence
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Ilya Sutskever argues the field is transitioning from pure scaling to research-focused approaches for improving model generalization and capabilities
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Satya Nadella provides exclusive first look at Microsoft's Fairwater 2 datacenters, each containing hundreds of thousands of GB200s/GB300s with 2+ GW total capacity across facilities
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Sarah Paine explains how Stalin sabotaged China's development through the Chinese Civil War, derailing China's rise for over a century
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Andrej Karpathy argues AGI remains roughly a decade away and will blend into long-term GDP growth trends rather than causing sudden disruption
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Nick Lane proposes early life emerged from spontaneous chemistry at undersea hydrothermal vents, making life's origin chemically inevitable rather than improbable
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Dwarkesh reflects on Richard Sutton's perspective that LLMs are a dead end, improving his understanding of Sutton's architectural criticisms
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Richard Sutton, father of RL and 2024 Turing Award winner, argues LLMs cannot learn on-the-job and will be obsoleted by continuous learning architectures
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Sergey Levine estimates autonomous household robots will be fully operational by 2030 through a self-improvement flywheel mechanism
Sergey Levine
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Sarah Paine explains how Britain used sea control, peripheral campaigns, and alliances to defeat Nazi Germany during WWII
Sarah Paine
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Jacob Kimmel argues transcription factors can be identified and leveraged to reverse aging, making biological immortality achievable
Jacob Kimmel
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Casey Handmer argues solar power, not natural gas, will power the 100s of GWs of AI energy demand over the coming decade
Casey Handmer