Samuel Arbesman is a complexity scientist focusing on the changing nature of science and technology. We discuss learning, reading, and how to optimize both to get the best outcome.
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Sep 29
Bill Ackman: The Biggest Fight of His Life
Bill Ackman is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, one of the most closely watched investment firms in the world. In this conversation, he breaks down how he tells the difference between real innovation from hype, what he looks for before making a billion-d ... Show More
1h 17m
Sep 15
Tobi Lütke: The Skills AI Makes More Valuable
Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins Shane Parrish to discuss AI agents, better decision-making, and the future of work. He explains how he uses an AI council to examine his hardest decisions and why taste, judgment, and responsibility become more valuable as AI becomes more ... Show More
1h 5m
Nov 2020
#226 — The Price of Distraction
Sam Harris speaks with Adam Gazzaley about the way our technology is changing us. They discuss our limited ability to process information, our failures of multitasking, "top-down" vs "bottom-up" attention, self-interruptions and switching costs, anxiety, boredom, "digital medicin ... Show More
44m 18s
May 2023
#319 — The Digital Multiverse
<p>Sam Harris speaks with David Auerbach about the problematic structure of online networks. They discuss the tradeoffs between liberty and cooperation, the impossibility of fighting misinformation, bottom-up vs top-down influences, recent developments in AI, deepfakes, the insta ... Show More
36m 34s
May 2021
509: Sam Harris | Making Sense of the Present Tense
Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) is a neuroscientist, philosopher, and author of five New York Times bestsellers. He is the host of the Making Sense podcast and his latest book is Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity. What We Discuss with S ... Show More
1h 10m
Sep 2015
#18 — The Multiverse & You (& You & You & You...)
Sam Harris speaks with MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark about the foundations of science, our current understanding of the universe, and the risks of future breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain ac ... Show More
43m 49s
Jul 2018
175: Insights from the Founder of KDnuggets
In this episode of the SuperDataScience Podcast, I chat with the President and Editor at KDNuggets, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro. You will hear about the recent advancements in Data Science, learn how Reinforcement Learning can greatly improve AI capabilities, and learn about the no ... Show More
53m 22s
Jul 2021
#255 — The Future of Intelligence
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Harris speaks with Jeff Hawkins about the nature of intelligence. They discuss how the neocortex creates models of the world, the role of prediction in sensory-motor experience, cortical columns, reference frames, thought as movement in conc ... Show More
58m 1s