Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AGI in 2 years
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AGI in 2 years
Here is my conversation with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic.Dario is hilarious and has fascinating takes on what these m... Read more
8 Aug 2023
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1hr 58mins
Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work
Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, & Why Books Don’t Work
A few weeks ago, I sat beside Andy Matuschak to record how he reads a textbook.Even though my own job is to learn things... Read more
12 Jul 2023
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2hr 24mins
Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future
Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future
The second half of my 7 hour conversation with Carl Shulman is out!My favorite part! And the one that had the biggest im... Read more
26 Jun 2023
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3hr 9mins
Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment
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 ... Read more
14 Jun 2023
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2hr 44mins
Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes
It was a tremendous honor & pleasure to interview Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Making of the... Read more
23 May 2023
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2hr 37mins
Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky - Why AI Will Kill Us, Aligning LLMs, Nature of Intelligence, SciFi, & Rationality
For 4 hours, I tried to come up reasons for why AI might not kill us all, and Eliezer Yudkowsky explained why I was wron... Read more
6 Apr 2023
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4hr 3mins
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment
I went over to the OpenAI offices in San Fransisco to ask the Chief Scientist and cofounder of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, a... Read more
27 Mar 2023
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47mins
Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
It is said that the two greatest problems of history are: how to account for the rise of Rome, and how to account for he... Read more
22 Mar 2023
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1hr 38mins
Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out
Brett Harrison - FTX US Former President & HFT Veteran Speaks Out
I flew out to Chicago to interview Brett Harrison, who is the former President of FTX US President and founder of Archit... Read more
13 Mar 2023
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2hr 37mins
Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
Marc Andreessen - AI, Crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, Regrets, Vulnerabilities, & Managerial Revolution
My podcast with the brilliant Marc Andreessen is out!We discuss:* how AI will revolutionize software* whether NFTs are u... Read more
1 Feb 2023
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1hr 19mins