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Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?
October 01, 2026
Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?
1 hr 37 min
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Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
September 17, 2026
Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
1 hr 20 min
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AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
September 11, 2026
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
1 hr 37 min
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Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
September 01, 2026
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
2 hr 20 min
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The rise and fall of agent civilizations
August 31, 2026
The rise and fall of agent civilizations
24 min
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Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
August 25, 2026
Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
1 hr 16 min
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Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
August 11, 2026
Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
2 hr 12 min
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8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
August 07, 2026
8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
8 min
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Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
August 03, 2026
Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
11 min
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Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
July 10, 2026
Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
1 hr 38 min
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Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
June 30, 2026
Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math
1 hr 33 min
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The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
June 26, 2026
The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job
19 min
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The data black hole at the center of AI
June 19, 2026
The data black hole at the center of AI
11 min
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Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
June 16, 2026
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
2 hr 8 min
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Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
June 04, 2026
Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
1 hr 16 min
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Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
May 22, 2026
Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
1 hr 20 min
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Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
May 15, 2026
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch
2 hr 37 min
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David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
May 08, 2026
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
2 hr 13 min
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Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
April 29, 2026
Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served
2 hr 13 min
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Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
April 15, 2026
Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat
1 hr 43 min
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Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
April 07, 2026
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
2 hr 3 min
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Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
March 20, 2026
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
1 hr 23 min
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Dylan Patel — Deep Dive on the 3 Big Bottlenecks to Scaling AI Compute
March 13, 2026
Dylan Patel — Deep Dive on the 3 Big Bottlenecks to Scaling AI Compute
2 hr 31 min
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I’m glad the Anthropic fight is happening now
March 11, 2026
I’m glad the Anthropic fight is happening now
24 min
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How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution
March 06, 2026
How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution
2 hr 2 min
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Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
February 13, 2026
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
2 hr 22 min
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Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
February 05, 2026
Elon Musk - "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
2 hr 49 min
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Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
December 30, 2025
Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain
1 hr 49 min
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An audio version of my blog post, Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
December 23, 2025
An audio version of my blog post, Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)
12 min
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Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War
December 19, 2025
Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War
1 hr 54 min
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Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
November 25, 2025
Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
1 hr 36 min
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Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
November 12, 2025
Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI
1 hr 27 min
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Sarah Paine – How Russia sabotaged China's rise
October 31, 2025
Sarah Paine – How Russia sabotaged China's rise
1 hr 30 min
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Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
October 17, 2025
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away
2 hr 25 min
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Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
October 10, 2025
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
1 hr 20 min
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Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
October 04, 2025
Some thoughts on the Sutton interview
11 min
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Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end
September 26, 2025
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead-end
1 hr 6 min
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Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
September 12, 2025
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
1 hr 33 min
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How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
September 05, 2025
How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine
1 hr 35 min
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Why evolution designed us to die fast, & how we can change that – Jacob Kimmel
August 21, 2025
Why evolution designed us to die fast, & how we can change that – Jacob Kimmel
1 hr 44 min
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China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? – Casey Handmer
August 15, 2025
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? – Casey Handmer
1 hr 8 min
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It May Be Impossible to Outcompete Factory Farming – Lewis Bollard
August 07, 2025
It May Be Impossible to Outcompete Factory Farming – Lewis Bollard
1 hr 8 min
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Sarah Paine: How Imperial Japan Crushed Tsarist Russia & Qing China
July 25, 2025
Sarah Paine: How Imperial Japan Crushed Tsarist Russia & Qing China
1 hr 55 min
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Stephen Kotkin — How Do We Explain Stalin?
July 10, 2025
Stephen Kotkin — How Do We Explain Stalin?
2 hr 12 min
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Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
July 03, 2025
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner
14 min
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Godfather of Synthetic Bio on De-Aging, De-Extinction, & Weaponized Mirror Life — George Church
June 26, 2025
Godfather of Synthetic Bio on De-Aging, De-Extinction, & Weaponized Mirror Life — George Church
1 hr 33 min
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China’s Manufacturing Dominance: State Directives & Ruthless Competition — Arthur Kroeber
June 19, 2025
China’s Manufacturing Dominance: State Directives & Ruthless Competition — Arthur Kroeber
2 hr 26 min
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“China’s digging out of a crisis. But America’s luck is wearing thin.” — Ken Rogoff
June 12, 2025
“China’s digging out of a crisis. But America’s luck is wearing thin.” — Ken Rogoff
1 hr 36 min
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Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
May 29, 2025
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih
1 hr 29 min
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How Does Claude 4 Think? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
May 22, 2025
How Does Claude 4 Think? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
2 hr 24 min
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The Last Human CEO
May 01, 2025
The Last Human CEO
10 min
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Mark Zuckerberg – Llama 4, DeepSeek, Trump, AI Friends, & Race to AGI
April 29, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg – Llama 4, DeepSeek, Trump, AI Friends, & Race to AGI
1 hr 15 min
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Why Rome Actually Fell: Plagues, Slavery, & Ice Age — Kyle Harper
April 24, 2025
Why Rome Actually Fell: Plagues, Slavery, & Ice Age — Kyle Harper
1 hr 23 min
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AGI is Still 30 Years Away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
April 17, 2025
AGI is Still 30 Years Away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu
3 hr 8 min
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2027 Intelligence Explosion: Month-by-Month Model — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
April 03, 2025
2027 Intelligence Explosion: Month-by-Month Model — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo
3 hr 4 min
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AMA ft. Sholto & Trenton: New Book, Career Advice Given AGI, How I'd Start From Scratch
March 25, 2025
AMA ft. Sholto & Trenton: New Book, Career Advice Given AGI, How I'd Start From Scratch
49 min
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Joseph Henrich – Why Humans Survived and Smarter Species Didn't
March 12, 2025
Joseph Henrich – Why Humans Survived and Smarter Species Didn't
1 hr 52 min
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