Sarah Paine Episode 1: The War For India (Lecture & Interview)

Tyler Cowen - the #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

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Adam Brown – How Future Civilizations Could Change The Laws of Physics

Gwern Branwen - How an Anonymous Researcher Predicted AI's Trajectory

Dylan Patel & Jon (Asianometry) – How the Semiconductor Industry Actually Works

Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century

David Reich - How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago

Joe Carlsmith - Otherness and control in the age of AGI

Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives

Tony Blair - Life of a PM, The Deep State, Lee Kuan Yew, & AI's 1914 Moment

Francois Chollet, Mike Knoop - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution

Leopold Aschenbrenner - China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & The Return of History

John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) - Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI

Mark Zuckerberg - Llama 3, Open Sourcing $10b Models, & Caesar Augustus

Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind

Demis Hassabis - Scaling, Superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, Rogue Nations Threat

Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments

Tyler Cowen - Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, Animal Spirits, Anarchy, & Growth

Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro [Narration]

Will scaling work? [Narration]

Jung Chang - Living through Cultural Revolution and the Crimes of Mao

Andrew Roberts - SV's Napoleon Cult, Why Hitler Lost WW2, Churchill as Applied Historian

Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance

Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover

Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) - 2028 AGI, New Architectures, Aligning Superhuman Models

Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) - Past, Present, & Future of Mathematics

Sarah C. M. Paine - WW2, Taiwan, Ukraine, & Maritime vs Continental Powers

Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress

Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work

Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future

Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment

Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes

Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality

Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment

Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI

Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out

Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution

Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less Democracy

Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn High

Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important Century

Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries

Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy

Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism

Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work

Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?

Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review

Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues

Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex

Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry

Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha

Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity

Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology

Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics

Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship

Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order

Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership

Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection

Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War

Stephen Grugett (Manifold Markets Founder) - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance

Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World

Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science

Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia

Bryan Caplan - Discrimination, Poverty, & Mental Illness

Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Wokeness

David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies

David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation

Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously

Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress

Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code

Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity

Scott Young - Ultralearning

Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty

Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods

Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine

Robin Hanson - The Long View

Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress

Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity, and Probability

Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset

Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas