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Episodes
The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
Jun 26, 2026 · 19 min
The data black hole at the center of AI
Jun 19, 2026 · 11 min
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
Jun 16, 2026 · 2h 8m
Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
Jun 4, 2026 · 1h 16m
Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
May 22, 2026 · 1h 20m
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
May 15, 2026 · 2h 37m
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
May 8, 2026 · 2h 13m
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
Apr 29, 2026 · 2h 13m
Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
Apr 15, 2026 · 1h 43m
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
Apr 7, 2026 · 2h 3m
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
Mar 20, 2026 · 1h 23m
Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute
Mar 13, 2026 · 2h 30m
The most important question nobody's asking about AI
Mar 11, 2026 · 24 min
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Mar 6, 2026 · 2h 2m
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
Feb 13, 2026 · 2h 22m
Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
Feb 5, 2026 · 2h 49m
Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
Dec 30, 2025 · 1h 49m
Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
Dec 23, 2025 · 12 min
Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War
Dec 19, 2025 · 1h 54m
Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Nov 25, 2025 · 1h 36m
Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
Nov 12, 2025 · 1h 27m
Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise
Oct 31, 2025 · 1h 30m
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
Oct 17, 2025 · 2h 25m
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
Oct 10, 2025 · 1h 20m
Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
Oct 4, 2025 · 11 min
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
Sep 26, 2025 · 1h 6m
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
Sep 12, 2025 · 1h 28m
How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
Sep 5, 2025 · 1h 35m
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel
Aug 21, 2025 · 1h 44m
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
Aug 15, 2025 · 1h 8m
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard
Aug 7, 2025 · 1h 8m
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China
Jul 25, 2025 · 1h 55m
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
Jul 10, 2025 · 2h 12m
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
Jul 3, 2025 · 14 min
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church
Jun 26, 2025 · 1h 33m
Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber
Jun 19, 2025 · 2h 26m
"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff
Jun 12, 2025 · 1h 36m
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
May 29, 2025 · 1h 29m
Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
May 22, 2025 · 2h 24m
What will automated firms look like?
May 1, 2025 · 10 min
Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months
Apr 29, 2025 · 1h 15m
Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
Apr 24, 2025 · 1h 23m
AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
Apr 17, 2025 · 3h 8m
AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
Apr 3, 2025 · 3h 4m
AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton
Mar 25, 2025 · 49 min
Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution
Mar 12, 2025 · 1h 52m
Notes on China
Mar 5, 2025 · 19 min
Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough
Feb 19, 2025 · 1h 16m
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
Feb 12, 2025 · 2h 14m
Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)
Jan 30, 2025 · 1h 48m