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Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AIListen now | lost gospels, forgotten epics, & missing works of Aristotle.
Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks OutListen now | In his first longform interview since the fall of FTX

February 2023

Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial RevolutionListen now | future of NFTS, fusion, education, Twitter, venture, managerialism, & big tech
Dwarkesh Patel
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January 2023

Garett Jones - Immigration, National IQ, & Less DemocracyListen now | How migrants bring their values to their new countries, Why national IQ matters, How the Chinese people are an unstoppable global force for…
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Lars Doucet - Progress, Poverty, Georgism, & Why Rent is Too Damn HighListen now | "completely changed how I think about who creates value in the world and who leaches off it."
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Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI & Most Important CenturyListen now | AI, Progress, Digital People, Ethics, & a $30m grant to OpenAI
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December 2022

Aarthi & Sriram - Twitter, 10x Engineers, & MarriageListen now | what Sriram would say if Elon tapped him to be the next CEO of Twitter, why more married couples don’t start businesses together, and how…
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Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & VisionariesListen now | This was one of my favorite episodes ever. Bethany McLean broke the Enron story & has written some of the best finance books out there. We…
Dwarkesh Patel
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Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & PhilanthropyListen now | On the culture of the new tech elite, the priorities of their philanthropy, and the limitations of democracy in open source
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Aella - Sex, Psychedelics, & EnlightenmentListen now (77 min) | Sex tips, porn revolutions, elites, consent, & trads
Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & MonasticismAscolta ora (91 min) | what happened at FTX, how drugs explain past financial bubbles, whether Musk Twitter will succeed, and much much more!
Dwarkesh Patel
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November 2022

Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote WorkListen now | why Cities are resilient to terrorism, remote work, & pandemics, Silicon Valley may collapse, Opioids show UBI is not a solution to AI, …
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