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TiB 215: Tyler Cowen on talent; more AI progress; EA as an idea machine; and more... #215 May 17, 2022
TiB 214: Remote work and innovation; underwater cables and geopolitics; TikTok and identity; and more... #214 May 10, 2022
TiB 213: The world’s surprising best university; AI safety today; China’s soft power failure; and more... #213 May 3, 2022
#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
#205 Mar 8, 2022 TiB 205: Nuclear war is underrated. Cyber war is overrated. Silicon Valley and Science. – This week: The risk of nuclear war is underrated; the impact of cyber warfare is overrated; the ethno
#204 Mar 1, 2022 TiB 204: What Putin wants; Weaponised interdependence; Genghis Khan and the cannon; and more... – This week: What Putin wants and what happens next; Ukraine, the persistence of the physical and weapo
#203 Feb 22, 2022 TiB 203: AI and fusion; what ARIA needs; Arbesman on science; and more... – This week: DeepMind's impressive work on controlling tokamaks for nuclear fusion; the key decisions f
#202 Feb 15, 2022 TiB 202: Conscious AIs; future-proof ethics; outliers in science and more... – This week: Comparing science funding mechanisms; how to avoid being condemned by history; on the cons
#201 Feb 8, 2022 TiB 201: Democracy-saving tech; The Power Law; a quant history of women; and more... – This week: Technology and deliberative democracy; a quantitative history of women; what venture capit
#200 Feb 1, 2022 TiB 200: Imaginary books; AI alignment; crypto and modernity; and more... – This week: Books that should exist; advances in AI alignment; crypto vs bureaucracy; and more…
#199 Jan 25, 2022 TiB 199: Dangerous AI; Funding experiments; Rating Net Zero; and more... – This week: Better ways for governments to fund innovative research; the problem of aligning artificia
#198 Jan 18, 2022 TiB 198: Abundance as policy; AGI and politics; Remote work and the cost of living; and more... – This week: Scarcity as a policy choice; cities, the cost of living and remote work; bottlenecks in a
#197 Jan 11, 2022 TiB 197: Predictions for 2050; Best books of 2021; the AI umbrella; and more... – This week: What the world might look like three decades from now; technology and the "minimum viable
#196 Dec 21, 2021 TiB 196: 2021 in review - the best articles, tweets and episodes of the year – This week: The Thoughts in Between review of 2021...