Episodes (Page 3)
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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
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Lewis Bollard examines why factory farming is economically so efficient and explores technological solutions to reduce suffering for 23+ billion animals
Lewis Bollard
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Sarah Paine explains how Japan (47M population) defeated both China (400M) and Russia (130M) to become East Asia's dominant power at the 20th century's turn
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Stephen Kotkin, foremost Stalin expert, explores how Stalin became history's most powerful dictator controlling life and death across 11 time zones
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Dwarkesh reflects on various guest AGI timeline estimates ranging from 2 to 20+ years and outlines his skepticism toward near-term AGI
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George Church outlines massive near-term biotech payoffs enabled by sequencing/synthesis cost decreases, CRISPR, AlphaFold-type AIs, and multiplex experiments
George Church
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China's manufacturing dominance stems from its government-as-VC-fund model: identifying strategic priorities and spending hundreds of billions to subsidize ruthless local competition
Arthur Kroeber
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Ken Rogoff predicts a debt-induced inflation crisis within a decade for the US, but not a Japan-style financial crisis that can impoverish nations for generations
Ken Rogoff
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Victor Shih discusses China's massive local debt crisis and its implications for fiscal stability
Victor Shih
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Sholto Douglas and Trenton Bricken discuss new RL regime at Anthropic and how far scaling can take AI without architectural changes
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Explores the structure and operations of fully automated AI-driven firms
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Mark Zuckerberg discusses Llama 4 and AI's role in Meta's code.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Rome experienced a plague 800 years before the Black Death that killed 60%+ of populations in many regions, plus back-to-back volcanic eruptions triggered a mini Ice Age causing famine and disease
Kyle Harper
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Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu project AGI arrival at 2045+, rejecting near-term timelines
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Scott Alexander and Daniel Kokotajlo provide month-by-month breakdown of projected 2027 intelligence explosion scenario
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Dwarkesh discusses career strategy in context of fast AGI timelines and skill arbitrage
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Joseph Henrich argues humans succeeded through cultural evolution, not raw intelligence, enabling knowledge accumulation across generations
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Visual essay presenting key insights about China's economic, political, and technological landscape
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Satya Nadella expresses skepticism about AGI while projecting 10% annual economic growth from AI advances
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Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer recount 25 years at Google developing transformative systems from PageRank to Gemini