Notable Guests
RP
Reiner Pope
2x
AK
Arthur Kroeber
1x
CH
Casey Handmer
1x
DR
David Reich
1x
DP
Dylan Patel
1x
EJ
Eric Jang
1x
GS
Grant Sanderson
1x
JK
Jacob Kimmel
1x
KR
Ken Rogoff
1x
KH
Kyle Harper
1x
Recent Episodes
1h 38m
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Reiner Pope explains chip design from logic gates to complex architectures like GPUs.
Reiner Pope
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Eric Jang explains building AlphaGo with modern AI tools for future AI insights.
Eric Jang
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David Reich discusses new research challenging the idea that natural selection slowed after the agricultural revolution.
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Reiner Pope explains LLM training and serving with blackboard equations.
Reiner Pope
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Jensen Huang discusses TPU competition and Nvidia's supply chain dominance.
Jensen Huang
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Discussed Michael Nielsen's insights on recognizing scientific progress.
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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