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TiB 138: What's next in synthetic bio; New Zealand and sovereign wealth; when the US had a culture of building; and more... #138 Oct 27, 2020
TiB 137: What China wants from Trump vs Biden; where top Chinese talent goes; America's challenging future; and more... #137 Oct 20, 2020
TiB 136: Taiwan and tail risk; Tiktok and algorithm design; the future of board games; and more... #136 Oct 13, 2020
#135 Oct 6, 2020 TiB 135: AI in 2020; why the world gets weirder and weirder; Big Tech and the stock market; and more... – This week: A look at the State of AI in 2020; why the stock market is less disconnected from the econ
#134 Sep 29, 2020 TiB 134: "Technological sovereignty"; why we dream; the missing piece in R&D; and more... – This week: What TikTok, Arm and SMIC tell us about technological sovereignty; new organisational desi
#133 Sep 22, 2020 TiB 133: Why the best ideas don't win; in praise of brain drain; how to preserve political norms; and more... – This week: how the "hardware lottery" shapes the development of machine learning; why brain drain can
#132 Sep 15, 2020 TiB 132: Computers vs the human brain; video games and predicting the future; disruption disrupted; and more... – This week: why big companies are less and less likely to be "disrupted"; the relative power of comput
#131 Sep 8, 2020 TiB 131: How smart are politicians; why tech needs some crazy money; religious fundamentalism and the internet; and more... – This week: Do we get the politicians we need or those we deserve; SPACs and the need for price-insens
#130 Sep 1, 2020 TiB 130: Why elections today seem so high stakes; evaluating extreme talent; the golden age of R&D; and more... – This week: what it takes to get more Bell Labs and Xerox Parcs; why elections seem so high stakes tod
#129 Aug 25, 2020 TiB 129: Authoritarian regimes and AI; the scenius of Silicon Valley; "Optimal Kickstarter"; and more... – This week: Why we should be skeptical that authoritarian regimes have a natural advantage in AI; the
#128 Aug 18, 2020 TiB 128: AI as an arms race; the depressing truth about organisations; scaling machine learning; and more... – This week: What happens if we can just keep scaling machine learning models; on AI development as a g
#127 Aug 11, 2020 TiB 127: The most powerful people in the world; the limitations of VC; murder mystery games; and more... – This week: why central bankers are underpaid; whether the venture capital model can work outside star
#126 Aug 4, 2020 TiB 126: Why democracy is doomed; in praise of ARPA; Trump as geopolitical banker; and more... – This week: the case for banning TikTok; why norm erosion is the greatest threat to democracy; why UK
#125 Jul 28, 2020 TiB 125: The tragedy of lost genius; why scientists shouldn't be creative; interests and ideology in US-China policy; and more... – This week: what Mathematical Olympiads tell us about talent misallocation; why the notion of contrari
#124 Jul 21, 2020 TiB 124: How to create tech optimism; the future of AI; ideological warfare via TikTok; and more... – This week: What GPT-3 tells us about the future of AI; why we underestimate the ideological dimension
#123 Jul 14, 2020 TiB 123: Information revolutions and public discourse; the future of elites; supply chains as public goods; and more... – This week: how much should we worry about Twitter's role in public life; how elites differ across tim
#122 Jul 7, 2020 TiB 122: Newton, Keynes and the power of science; how great powers fall; machine learning and the humanities and more... – This week: Newton, Keynes and how science changes the world; how great powers collapse; how machine l
#121 Jun 30, 2020 TiB 121: The geopolitics of digital currencies; how to avoid a civil war; experiments in techno-populism; and more... – This week: why the rise of digital currencies will undermine US power; experiments in "techno-populis
#120 Jun 23, 2020 TiB 120: How to build a culture of building; 12,000 years of economic growth; coronavirus and inequality; and more... – This week: In praise of building (and bad poetry); the global economy since 10,000 BC; the distributi
#119 Jun 16, 2020 TiB 119: Internet diplomacy in 2020; AI that writes poetry; startup ecosystems and art history; and more... – This week: China, Trump and internet diplomacy; an AI that can write poetry, but struggles with (some
