Category: Technology Trends

Ep. 171: China, Communism, and Bitcoin | Roger Huang

Roger Huang "Would Mao Hold Bitcoin?" is the authoritative resource exploring Bitcoin’s disruptive intersection with Chinese history. Huang not only pulls back the curtain on the specifics of the history, characters, and story, but on the larger questions that arise from the clash between state-driven Chinese tech and the open source development that is Bitcoin.

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Ep. 170: The story of the first AGI | David Jilk

After finishing MIT, David Jilk founded eCortex, a company that wound up being a solid 20 years ahead of the curve on deep learning, and later worked on cognitive models for IARPA. He has founded or advised numerous other companies, including Harmonix Music Systems, creators of the wildly popular games Guitar Hero and Rock Band. He recently published __Epoch: A Poetic Psy-Phi Saga__, a science fiction epic poem that tells the story of the first fully human-level artificial intelligence.

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Ep. 167: are games the key to building AGI? | Julian Togelius

Julian Togelius is an associate professor of computer science at New York University. His research lies at the intersection between computational intelligence and games, and he is the author of a forthcoming book on artificial general intelligence through MIT.

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Ep. 166: The story of SpaceX | Eliana Sherriff

After nearly a decade in TV news, Eliana Sheriff quit her job to become a full-time space journalist, creating content on YouTube and X. She spends most of her time covering rocket launches documenting the story of SpaceX.

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Ep. 165: Existential risk, existential hope, and the secrets to winning at life. | James Norris

All his life, James Norris has been searching for the best ways to change himself and change the world. He started as an entrepreneur at age 6 and since has co-founded or helped build 9 businesses and 16 organizations, including the global conference series for the effective altruism movement, the world’s first global lifehacking event series, Southeast Asia’s first social innovation hackathon series, and a university for today’s Leonardo da Vincis.

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Ep. 164: The frontiers of neuromorphic quantum computing | Clifford Mapp

Clifford Mapp is the global head of ecosystem development and information security at Dynex, the world’s only accessible neuromorphic quantum computing cloud for solving real-world problems at scale. Dynex is already supporting thousands of projects in health/pharma, research, AI/ML, architecture, aerospace, EVs, and fintech.

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Ep. 163: AI and the coming cognitive revolution. | Nathan Labenz

Nathan Labenz is a technology entrepreneur, artificial intelligence analyst, and the founder and former CEO of Waymark. With a background in philosophy and a keen eye for innovation, Nathan led Waymark from its inception to its status as a trailblazer in generative AI-powered content creation. As host of 'The Cognitive Revolution' podcast, he explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on work, life, society, and culture from every possible angle.

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Ep. 162: Making and losing millions in crypto | Nat Eliason

Nat Eliason began as a successful marketer and the founder of Growth Machine before turning to writing full-time. He recently published "Crypto Confidential," an unfiltered, insider’s account of the hyperactive, hyper-speculative, hyper-addictive, nearly unregulated, completely insane world being built on the blockchain.

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Ep. 153: AI, Alignment, and the Scaling Hypothesis | Dwarkesh Patel

Dwarkesh Patel is a renowned podcaster who has hosted interviews with luminaries like Marc Andreesen, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Grant Sanderson. He's best known for the extent of the effort he puts into researching the topics he speaks with his guests about, and for covering an exceptionally wide intellectual ground.

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