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  1. OpenAI researcher on agent swarms & recursive self-improvement

  2. AI researchers debate how far the current paradigm goes

  3. Ajeya Cotra – "This might be the clearest warning shot we ever get"

  4. Dylan Patel – Two labs will soon control most of the world's workforce

  5. Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?

  6. General relativity from first principles – Adam Brown

  7. Grant Sanderson (@3Blue1Brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what?

  8. Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmer

  9. Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can't escape geography

  10. The better AI gets, the smaller its share of the economy might get – Alex Imas and Phil Trammell

  11. Chip design from the bottom up – Reiner Pope

  12. What rebuilding AlphaGo teaches us about self-play, RL, and future of LLMs - Eric Jang

  13. David Reich – Bronze Age shock, the Neanderthal puzzle, & the sudden spread of farming

  14. How GPT, Claude, and Gemini are actually trained and served – Reiner Pope

  15. Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist?

  16. Michael Nielsen – Why aliens will have a different tech stack than us

  17. Terence Tao – How the world’s top mathematician uses AI

  18. Dylan Patel — The single biggest bottleneck to scaling AI compute

  19. Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

  20. Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”

  21. Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”

  22. Adam Marblestone – AI is missing something fundamental about the brain

  23. Sarah Paine – Why Russia Lost the Cold War

  24. Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

  25. Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGI

  26. Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise

  27. Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”

  28. “I find it almost disturbing that the universe favors life this strongly” – Nick Lane

  29. Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

  30. Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine

  31. Sarah Paine – How Hitler almost starved Britain

  32. Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel

  33. China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer

  34. Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard

  35. Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China

  36. Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history

  37. A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church

  38. Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber

  39. "China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff

  40. Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih

  41. Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken

  42. Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months

  43. Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper

  44. AGI is still 30 years away — Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

  45. AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo

  46. AMA: career advice given AGI, how I research ft. Sholto & Trenton

  47. Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution

  48. Satya Nadella — Microsoft’s AGI plan & quantum breakthrough

  49. Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

  50. Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)

  51. Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)

  52. Sarah Paine — The war for India (Lecture & interview)

  53. Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans

  54. Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT

  55. Gwern — Anonymous writer who predicted AI trajectory on $12K/year salary

  56. @Asianometry & Dylan Patel — How the semiconductor industry actually works

  57. Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin

  58. David Reich — How one small tribe conquered the world 70,000 years ago

  59. Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover

  60. Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan

  61. Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change

  62. Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles

  63. Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history

  64. John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI

  65. Mark Zuckerberg — Llama 3, $10B models, Caesar Augustus, & 1 GW datacenters

  66. Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think

  67. Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold

  68. Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave

  69. Tyler Cowen — Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth

  70. Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine

  71. Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder

  72. Dominic Cummings — Inside the collapse of western government

  73. Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover

  74. Shane Legg (DeepMind Founder) — 2028 AGI, superhuman alignment, new architectures

  75. Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) — Past, present, & future of mathematics

  76. Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake

  77. George Hotz vs Eliezer Yudkowsky

  78. Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough

  79. Andy Matuschak — The reason most learning tools fail

  80. Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future

  81. Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment

  82. Richard Rhodes — The making of the atomic bomb

  83. Eliezer Yudkowsky — Why AI will kill us, aligning LLMs, nature of intelligence, SciFi, & rationality

  84. Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence

  85. Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI

  86. Brett Harrison — FTX US former president speaks out

  87. Marc Andreessen — AI, crypto, 1000 Elon Musks, regrets, vulnerabilities, & managerial revolution

  88. Garett Jones — Immigration, national IQ, & less democracy

  89. Lars Doucet — Progress, poverty, Georgism, & why rent is too damn high

  90. Holden Karnofsky — History's most important century

  91. Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries

  92. Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy

  93. Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism

  94. Edward Glaeser - Cities, Terrorism, Housing, & Remote Work

  95. Kenneth T. Jackson - Robert Moses, Hero of New York?

  96. Brian Potter - Future of Construction, Ugly Modernism, & Environmental Review

  97. Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues

  98. Tyler Cowen - Why Society Will Collapse & Why Sex is Pessimistic

  99. Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry

  100. Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha

  101. Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity

  102. Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Effective Altruism, History, & Technology

  103. Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics

  104. Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship

  105. Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order

  106. Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, FTX, Altruism, & Leadership

  107. Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection

  108. Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann, Jewish Genius, and Nuclear War

  109. Manifold Markets Founder - Predictions Markets & Revolutionizing Governance

  110. Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World

  111. Razib Khan - Genomics, Intelligence, and The Church of Science

  112. Jimmy Soni - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and the Paypal Mafia

  113. Bryan Caplan - Labor Econ Versus the World

  114. Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and Experts

  115. David Deutsch - AI, America, Fun, & Bayes

  116. Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies

  117. David Friedman - Dating Markets, Legal Systems, Bitcoin, and Automation

  118. Sarah Fitz-Claridge - Taking Children Seriously | The Lunar Society #15

  119. Michael Huemer - Anarchy, Capitalism, and Progress

  120. Uncle Bob - The Long Reach of Code, Automating Programming, and Developing Coding Talent

  121. Scott Aaronson - Quantum Computing, Complexity, and Creativity

  122. Scott Young - Ultralearning, The MIT Challenge

  123. Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty | The Lunar Society #10

  124. Alex Tabarrok - Prizes, Prices, and Public Goods

  125. Caleb Watney - America's Innovation Engine

  126. Robin Hanson - The Long View and The Elephant in the Brain

  127. Jason Crawford - The Roots of Progress & the History of Technology

  128. Matjaž Leonardis - Science, Identity and Probability

  129. Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset

  130. Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas, Education, and UBI