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Episodes (148)
Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
Jun 30, 2026
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The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
Jun 26, 2026
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The data black hole at the center of AI
Jun 19, 2026
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Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
Jun 16, 2026
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Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
Jun 4, 2026
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Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
May 22, 2026
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Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
May 15, 2026
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David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
May 8, 2026
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Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
Apr 29, 2026
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Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
Apr 15, 2026
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Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
Apr 7, 2026
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Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
Mar 20, 2026
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Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
Mar 13, 2026
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The most important question nobody's asking about AI
Mar 11, 2026
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Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Mar 6, 2026
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Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
Feb 13, 2026
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Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
Feb 5, 2026
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Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
Dec 30, 2025
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Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
Dec 23, 2025
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Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War
Dec 19, 2025
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Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Nov 25, 2025
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Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
Nov 12, 2025
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Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise
Oct 31, 2025
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Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
Oct 17, 2025
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Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
Oct 10, 2025
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Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
Oct 4, 2025
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Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
Sep 26, 2025
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Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
Sep 12, 2025
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How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
Sep 5, 2025
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Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel
Aug 21, 2025
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China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
Aug 15, 2025
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Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
Aug 7, 2025
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Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
Jul 25, 2025
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Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
Jul 10, 2025
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Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
Jul 3, 2025
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A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church
Jun 26, 2025
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Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber
Jun 19, 2025
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"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff
Jun 12, 2025
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Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
Jun 2, 2025
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Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
May 29, 2025
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Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
May 22, 2025
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What will automated firms look like?
May 1, 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months
Apr 29, 2025
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Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
Apr 24, 2025
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AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
Apr 17, 2025
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AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
Apr 3, 2025
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AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton
Mar 25, 2025
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Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution
Mar 12, 2025
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Notes on China
Mar 5, 2025
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Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough
Feb 19, 2025
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