episode-header-image

Jan 2024

1h 42m

Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on ...

About this episode

Up next

Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat

I asked Jensen about TPU competition, Nvidia’s lock on the ever more bottlenecked supply chain needed to make advanced chips, whether we should be selling AI chips to China, why Nvidia doesn’t just become a hyperscaler, how it makes its investments, and much more. Enjoy!Watch on ... Show More

Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses

Really enjoyed chatting with Michael Nielsen about how we recognize scientific progress.It's especially relevant for closing the RL verification loop for scientific discovery.But it's also a surprisingly mysterious and elusive question when you look at the history of human scienc ... Show More

Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

We begin the episode with the absolutely ingenious and surprising way in which Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion.People sometimes say that AI will make especially fast progress at scientific discovery because of tight verification loops.But the story of how we discov ... Show More

Recommended Episodes

AI Hype and Skepticism: Economist Paul Romer

Paul Romer once considered himself the most optimistic economist. He rightfully predicted that technology would blow up as an economic driver coming out of the inflation of the 1970s but acknowledges he did not foresee the inequality that technology advances would lead to. On thi ... Show More

It’s not complicated! Doyne Farmer on a Better Economics for a Better World

Complex systems don’t have to be complicated to provided deep insights into the real world. That’s the view of Doyne Farmer, special guest on this week’s podcast. It’s an approach he shares to economics with Steve Keen. Steve develops systems from the top-down, whereas Doyne’s wo ... Show More

Sam Altman's Wild 2035 Prediction

<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just dropped a new blog post outlining his vision for AGI, AI economics, and the next decade. His key prediction? By 2035, any individual will have access to as much intelligence as the world today. Is this realistic, or just more hype? This episode break ... Show More

The Puzzle of AI Ethics with Dr. Cansu Canca

You’ve heard of the attention economy, but what about the intention economy? Rather than competing for consumers’ attention, our devices are now attempting to predict our purchasing patterns through AI. And who better to discuss that issue than Dr. Cansu Canca, a leading expert i ... Show More

Ray Dalio: Principles, the Economic Machine, Artificial Intelligence & the Arc of Life

Ray Dalio is the founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest and most successful investment firms that is famous for the principles of radical truth and transparency that underlie its culture. Ray is one of the wealth ... Show More

Rethinking the AI boom, with Daron Acemoğlu

<p>Daron Acemoğlu is an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of <em>Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity</em>. Today on the show, he and Soumaya discuss artificial intelligence and productivity gr ... Show More

The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes: What’s wrong with economics?

<p>This week, we’re bringing you something from our fellow FT podcast, The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes. </p><br><p>Sir Angus Deaton won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2015. So when he says he is rethinking many of his assumptions about the field, it matters. Today on ... Show More

SLP114 Gene Epstein - Moderating Bitcoin Debates

<p>Gene Epstein, Director of the Soho forum joins me to talk about his experiences in moderating debates in Bitcoin and Austrian Economics. We talk about some of the key points that Bitcoiners should consider from Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, and we also talk about the d ... Show More

The Ethics of AI with Batya Friedman & Steve Omohundro

<p>How can we ensure technology evolves ethically in a rapidly advancing world? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice & Gary O’Reilly explore the challenges of designing a future where human values and AI coexist with The Future of Life Award’s 2024 recipients, Batya Friedman & Steve O ... Show More