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TiB 225: I wrote a book! Plus: metascience; evaluating science funders; and lots more... #225 Aug 18, 2022
TiB 223: "Democratic AI"; designing research funders; the geopolitics of rare earths; and more... #223 Jul 12, 2022
#222 Jul 5, 2022 TiB 222: AI chameleons; T-rex and Amazon; Scouts vs Bat Signals; and more... – This week: AIs as parrots, chameleons and more; scouts vs bat signals in philanthropy; the distributi
#221 Jun 29, 2022 TiB 221: Increasing the supply of great companies; AI-created ideas; AI dystopias; and more... – This week: $158m for institutional innovation in VC; ideas created from nothing by AI; thoughts on "A
#220 Jun 21, 2022 TiB 220: AI-imagined histories; the geopolitical consequences of age; institutional rot in science; and more... – This week: The exceptional returns on public investment in science - and why they might fall; China’s
#219 Jun 14, 2022 TiB 219: AI sentience as red herring; new scientific fields; managing ambition; and more... – This week: Google's AI model isn't sentient, but it is a problem; why the creation of new scientific
#218 Jun 7, 2022 TiB 218: Science's stagnation; China's private cities; critiquing critiques of effective altruism; and more... – This week: A compendium of evidence for scientific stagnation; why China's fully privatised city seem
#217 May 31, 2022 TiB 217: Creating new scientific fields; AI arms races; the geopolitics of chokepoints; and more... – This week: The role of "vision papers" in creating new scientific fields; the geopolitics of "chokepo
#216 May 24, 2022 TiB 216: AI and the future of art; Rawls and web3; the Ottoman Empire and the printing press; and more... – This week: What do recent AI advances mean for the future of art; what web3 can learn from the politi
#215 May 17, 2022 TiB 215: Tyler Cowen on talent; more AI progress; EA as an idea machine; and more... – This week: Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross on identifying and evaluating talent; Effective Altruism as a
#214 May 10, 2022 TiB 214: Remote work and innovation; underwater cables and geopolitics; TikTok and identity; and more... – This week: The changing relationship between remote work and innovation; what transatlantic cables te
#213 May 3, 2022 TiB 213: The world’s surprising best university; AI safety today; China’s soft power failure; and more... – This week: Why you should worry about AI safety today; how to rank the world’s universities; why Chin
#212 Apr 26, 2022 TiB 212: In praise of social media; Pollution and science; How to read better books; and more... – This week: The overstated case against social media; some hypotheses on why we're getting worse at sc
#211 Apr 19, 2022 TiB 211: Experiments in governance; red-teaming science; fixing Twitter; and more... – This week: Why Twitter makes everyone angry; the space of all possible governance structures; why we
#210 Apr 12, 2022 TiB 210: AI comes for the illustrators; Zero COVID and rebellion; the End of History; and more... – This week: The implications of another striking week of AI milestones; the puzzle and pitfalls of Chi
#209 Apr 5, 2022 TiB 209: The dollar is dead, long live the dollar; memes and investing; public purpose technology; and more... – This week: Does Ukraine herald the death of the dollar; meme propagation as a financial strategy; pub
#208 Mar 29, 2022 TiB 208: Brain-scale AI; "mediocre superstars"; Tech vs Energy; and more... – This week: Silicon Valley and the future of energy; Chinese researchers train a "brain-scale" AI mode
#207 Mar 22, 2022 TiB 207: How to raise a genius; Sanctions as network effects; Silicon Valley philanthropy; and more – This week: Why economic sanctions are a network effects business; why Silicon Valley thinks different
#206 Mar 15, 2022 TiB 206: Sanctions, semiconductors and the past, present and future of sovereignty – This week: Russia, sanctions and public/private power; how Ukraine affects the geopolitics of semicon
