Episode 172: Capitalism Evolving—or Collapsing | Any Hines
How will capitalism evolve—or collapse—in the coming decades? Futurist, academic, and author Andy Hines joins us to discuss his latest book,...
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20 of 171 episodesEp. 171: China, Communism, and Bitcoin | Roger Huang
Roger Huang "Would Mao Hold Bitcoin?" is the authoritative resource exploring Bitcoin’s disruptive intersection with Chinese history. Huang...
Ep. 170: The story of the first AGI | David Jilk
David Jilk joins us for round two! After finishing MIT, David founded eCortex, a company that wound up being a solid 20 years ahead of the c...
Ep. 169: Fractal University, Scenius, and the future of higher ed. | Andrew Rose
Andrew Rose is one of the founders of Fractal University, whose mission is to democratize enjoyable, lifelong education and public research...
Ep. 168: Should we put AI in charge of governance? | Roko Mijic
Roko Mijic is a self-described radical centrist, transhumanist, and rationalist who is probably most famous for inventing "Roko's Basilisk,"...
Ep. 167: Are games the key to building AGI? | Julian Togelius
Julian Togelius is an associate professor of computer science at New York University. His research lies at the intersection between computat...
Ep. 166: The story of SpaceX | Eliana Sherriff
After nearly a decade in TV news, Eli quit her job to become a full-time space journalist, creating content on YouTube and X. She spends mos...
Ep. 165: Existential risk, existential hope, and the secrets to winning at life. | James Norris
All his life, James has been searching for the best ways to change himself and change the world. He started as an entrepreneur at age 6 and...
Ep. 164: The frontiers of neuromorphic quantum computing | Clifford Mapp
Clifford Mapp is the global head of ecosystem development and information security at Dynex, the world’s only accessible neuromorphic quantu...
Ep. 163: AI and the coming cognitive revolution. | Nathan Labenz
Nathan Labenz is a technology entrepreneur, artificial intelligence analyst, and the founder and former CEO of Waymark. With a background in...
Ep. 162: Making and losing millions in crypto | Nat Eliason
Nat Eliason began as a successful marketer and the founder of Growth Machine before turning to writing full-time. He recently published "Cry...
Ep. 161: Bitcoin is resistance money | Andrew Bailey
Dr. Andrew M. Bailey Andrew is an interdisciplinary teacher and scholar whose work spans philosophy, politics, and economics. He is a Profes...
Ep. 160: What makes generative AI so powerful? | Nick Frosst
Nick Frosst is a computer scientist and musician. He co-founded Cohere, which is a company focused on training large language models and mak...
Ep. 159: Top AI Trends for 2024 | David Shapiro
David Shapiro. David is a former engineer who became famous through his dozens of well-received tutorials on Youtube, covering everything fr...
Ep. 158: abstraction and agency | John Wentworth
After a long career as a software engineer and data scientist, John became an independent researcher in artificial intelligence. Today he fo...
Ep. 157: Aristotle, AI, and what philosophy offers futurism | Gregory Salmieri
Dr. Gregory Salmieri is a senior scholar of philosophy at the Salem Center, where he holds the Brigham Fellowship for the Study of Objectivi...
Ep. 156: Algorithms won't get us to AGI | Johannes Jaeger
Dr. Johannes Jaeger is a systems scientist, evolutionary biologist, educator, and natural philosopher with an extremely transdisciplinary tr...
Ep. 155: The history of invention | Anton Howes
Dr. Anton Howes is a historian of invention. He is currently writing a book on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution, and is offic...
Ep. 154: How the government works (and why you should care). | Daniel Golliher
After graduating with a degree in government from Harvard, Daniel Golliher founded a civics school called Maximum New York, anchored in New...
Ep. 153: AI, Alignment, and the Scaling Hypothesis | Dwarkesh Patel
Dwarkesh Patel is a renowned podcaster who has hosted interviews with luminaries like Marc Andreesen, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Grant Sanderson...