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Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress
Listen now | bioterrorism, alignment, cyberattacks, scaling, $10 billion training runs
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July 2023
Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work
Listen now | "I was shocked with how intense, painstaking, and effective his learning process was"
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June 2023
Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future
Listen now (3 hrs) | the episode that had the biggest impact on my worldview
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Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
Listen now | In terms of the depth and range of topics, this episode is the best I’ve done. No part of my worldview is the same after talking with Carl…
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Contra Marc Andreessen on AI
"The claim that you will completely control any system you build is obviously false, and a hacker like Marc should know that"
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May 2023
Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
Listen now | developing a powerful, unprecedented, & potentially apocalyptic technology within an uncertain arms-race situation
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Lessons from The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
"Explore a single individual deeply enough and truths about all individuals emerge." - Robert Caro
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April 2023
Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality
Listen now | 4 hours of me coming up with reasons why AI might not kill us all, & Elieze explaining why I'm wrong.
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March 2023
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment
Listen now | time to AGIs, leaks and spies, what's after generative models, post AGI futures, working with MSFT and competing with Google, difficulty of…
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Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
Listen now | lost gospels, forgotten epics, & missing works of Aristotle.
Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out
Listen now | In his first longform interview since the fall of FTX
February 2023
Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
Listen now | future of NFTS, fusion, education, Twitter, venture, managerialism, & big tech
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