Thoughts in Between
by Matt Clifford
TiB 226: 2022 in review - the best articles, tweets and episodes of the year ->
December 18, 2022
TiB 221: Increasing the supply of great companies; AI-created ideas; AI dystopias; and more... ->
June 29, 2022
TiB 218: Science's stagnation; China's private cities; critiquing critiques of effective altruism; and more... ->
June 7, 2022
TiB 215: Tyler Cowen on talent; more AI progress; EA as an idea machine; and more... ->
May 17, 2022
TiB 225: I wrote a book! Plus: metascience; evaluating science funders; and lots more... ->
August 18, 2022
TiB 224: Some big news! ARIA, TiB and me. And more... ->
July 19, 2022
TiB 223: "Democratic AI"; designing research funders; the geopolitics of rare earths; and more... ->
July 12, 2022
TiB 222: AI chameleons; T-rex and Amazon; Scouts vs Bat Signals; and more... ->
July 5, 2022
TiB 220: AI-imagined histories; the geopolitical consequences of age; institutional rot in science; and more... ->
June 21, 2022
TiB 219: AI sentience as red herring; new scientific fields; managing ambition; and more... ->
June 14, 2022
TiB 217: Creating new scientific fields; AI arms races; the geopolitics of chokepoints; and more... ->
May 31, 2022
TiB 216: AI and the future of art; Rawls and web3; the Ottoman Empire and the printing press; and more... ->
May 24, 2022
TiB 214: Remote work and innovation; underwater cables and geopolitics; TikTok and identity; and more... ->
May 10, 2022
TiB 213: The world’s surprising best university; AI safety today; China’s soft power failure; and more... ->
May 3, 2022
TiB 212: In praise of social media; Pollution and science; How to read better books; and more... ->
April 26, 2022
TiB 211: Experiments in governance; red-teaming science; fixing Twitter; and more... ->
April 19, 2022
TiB 210: AI comes for the illustrators; Zero COVID and rebellion; the End of History; and more... ->
April 12, 2022
TiB 209: The dollar is dead, long live the dollar; memes and investing; public purpose technology; and more... ->
April 5, 2022
TiB 208: Brain-scale AI; "mediocre superstars"; Tech vs Energy; and more... ->
March 29, 2022
TiB 207: How to raise a genius; Sanctions as network effects; Silicon Valley philanthropy; and more ->
March 22, 2022
TiB 206: Sanctions, semiconductors and the past, present and future of sovereignty ->
March 15, 2022
TiB 205: Nuclear war is underrated. Cyber war is overrated. Silicon Valley and Science. ->
March 8, 2022
TiB 204: What Putin wants; Weaponised interdependence; Genghis Khan and the cannon; and more... ->
March 1, 2022
TiB 203: AI and fusion; what ARIA needs; Arbesman on science; and more... ->
February 22, 2022
TiB 202: Conscious AIs; future-proof ethics; outliers in science and more... ->
February 15, 2022
TiB 201: Democracy-saving tech; The Power Law; a quant history of women; and more... ->
February 8, 2022
TiB 200: Imaginary books; AI alignment; crypto and modernity; and more... ->
February 1, 2022
TiB 199: Dangerous AI; Funding experiments; Rating Net Zero; and more... ->
January 25, 2022
TiB 198: Abundance as policy; AGI and politics; Remote work and the cost of living; and more... ->
January 18, 2022
TiB 197: Predictions for 2050; Best books of 2021; the AI umbrella; and more... ->
January 11, 2022
TiB 196: 2021 in review - the best articles, tweets and episodes of the year ->
December 21, 2021
TiB 195: The State vs Big Tech vs Blockchains; and more... ->
December 14, 2021
TiB 194: Automating mathematicians; Shaping the very long run; Immortal universities; and more... ->
December 7, 2021
TiB 193: The bear case on China; the bear case on the US; unknown unknowns; and more... ->
November 30, 2021
TiB 192: AI autocracy; Why you love fake news; Carbon removal tech; and more... ->
November 23, 2021
TiB 191: Top 10 papers of TiB, including AI and science; where great founders come from; the "need for chaos"; and more... ->
November 16, 2021
TiB 190: Combinatorial innovation; Rawls and AI; climate and VC and more... ->
November 9, 2021
TiB 189: Fragile supply chains; Sequoia and the tech cycle; Knowledge and trust; and more... ->
November 2, 2021
TiB 188: The Great Resignation; Popularism; Biotech startups; and more... ->
October 26, 2021
TiB 187: The State of AI; extreme talent; monasteries and crypto; and more... ->
October 19, 2021
TiB 186: Crypto-governance; Einstein's incentives; the history of progress; and more... ->
October 12, 2021
TiB 185: Semiconductor independence; Net Zero; Dominic Cummings; and more... ->
October 5, 2021
TiB 184: The Exponential Age; how to give away $100m; the future is woke; and more... ->
September 28, 2021
TiB 183: AI's dead end; chip shortages; against remote work; and more... ->
September 21, 2021
TiB 182: The future of US power; remote work; incubating deep tech; and more... ->
September 14, 2021
TiB 181: Tech heist of the century; obscure books; curating talent; and more... ->
September 7, 2021
TiB 180: What governments should do about AI; Politics and reality; France's puzzling geniuses; and more... ->
August 31, 2021
TiB 179: Big AI; contagious entrepreneurship; frontiers and history; and more... ->
August 24, 2021
TiB 178: How the Taliban fight; AI researchers on AI governance; Ethan Mollick and more... ->
August 17, 2021
TiB 177: The causes of exceptional performance; When founders die; AGI; and more... ->
August 10, 2021
TiB 176: East India Company vs Facebook; the Medici of this century; China's tech crackdown; and more... ->
August 3, 2021
TiB 175: Regulating Facebook; how to win more; DeFi and the real world; and more... ->
July 27, 2021
TiB 174: The future is weird; more silicon geopolitics; how to get better science; and more... ->
July 20, 2021
TiB 173: A brief history of the future; Chinese AI; talent and invention; and more... ->
July 13, 2021
(Resend) TiB 172: Who makes history; Grading our pandemic response; The internet and personal agency; and more... ->
July 7, 2021
TiB 171: Remote work forever; the psychology of ambition; the EU on China; and more... ->
June 29, 2021
TiB 170: How to get more growth, better institutions and more unicorns; and more... ->
June 22, 2021
TiB 169: AI authors; better ways to fund startups; China's "Digital Silk Road"; and more... ->
June 15, 2021
TiB 168: Pandemics and bad science; when AIs make us unethical; catastrophic risk; and more... ->
June 8, 2021
TiB 167: AI safety; China's missing founders; how to build AI companies; and more... ->
June 1, 2021
TiB 166: Twitter and economic stagnation; China’s GPT-3; climate change makes us bad; and more... ->
May 25, 2021
TiB 165: When bankers become founders; the world's biggest risks; New Science; and more... ->
May 18, 2021
TiB 164: Zuckerberg as monarch; the limits of IP; crypto and values; and more... ->
May 11, 2021
TiB 163: Prophets, Wizards and Climate Change; Consciousness; Semiconductor talent; and more... ->
May 4, 2021
TiB 162: The EU vs AI; Skill vs Luck; COVID vs internet security; and more... ->
April 27, 2021
TiB 161: Crypto vs the state; war and semiconductors; talent investing and institution building; and more... ->
April 20, 2021
TiB 160: Nuclear weapons and AI; anti-portfolios in philanthropy; the second order benefits of science; and more... ->
April 13, 2021
TiB 159: "Private ARPA"; against entrepreneurs; improving access to AI; and more... ->
April 6, 2021
TiB 158: Silicon geopolitics; better science; the past, present and future of legitimacy; and more... ->
March 30, 2021
TiB 157: History's most pivotal moments; how SpaceX won; AI + UBI; and more... ->
March 23, 2021
TiB 156: The future of pandemics; the future of art; the future of growth; and more... ->
March 16, 2021
TiB 155: National AI strategies; scale and ethics; compressing the economic sphere; and more... ->
March 9, 2021
TiB 154: Soft power and technological sovereignty in the 21st century ->
March 2, 2021
TiB 153: The big risk of UK ARPA; where innovation comes from; the printing press vs the internet; and more... ->
February 23, 2021
TiB 152: AI, compute and national security; should Bezos run the vaccine programme; information revolutions and evolution; and more... ->
February 16, 2021
TiB 151: Lessons from the Vaccine Wars; making AI safe; variance and politics; and more... ->
February 9, 2021
TiB 150: How did the world get so weird? ->
February 2, 2021
TiB 149: Who will own the AI future; building a more innovative society; what top ML talent wants; and more... ->
January 26, 2021
TiB 148: A new era for the internet; against experts; public intellectuals in the internet age; and more... ->
January 19, 2021
TiB 147: Avoiding an AI race to the bottom; the never-ending Brexit; Fund People, Not Projects; and more... ->
January 12, 2021
TiB 146: Brain drain and top talent; the end of the US corporate elite; the TiB podcast; and more... ->
January 5, 2021
TiB 145: 2020 in review - the best of Thoughts in Between ->
December 15, 2020
TiB 144: Infecting people on purpose; Google's golden handcuffs; China's soft power agenda; and more... ->
December 8, 2020
TiB 143: The end of tech stagnation; green growth; why (one) climate change consensus is wrong; and more... ->
December 1, 2020
TiB 142: "Elitist" AI; how Silicon Valley sees China; the unhappiness divide in politics; and more... ->
November 24, 2020
TiB 141: Whose jobs are at risk from robots; Friedrich Engels, venture capitalist; coronavirus fantasies; and more... ->
November 17, 2020
TiB 140: How to buy an election; accelerating scientific progress; "Shy Trump voters"; and more... ->
November 10, 2020
TiB 139: King Daniel Ek; Elections and the structure of democracy; Polarisation in science; and more... ->
November 3, 2020
TiB 138: What's next in synthetic bio; New Zealand and sovereign wealth; when the US had a culture of building; and more... ->
October 27, 2020
TiB 137: What China wants from Trump vs Biden; where top Chinese talent goes; America's challenging future; and more... ->
October 20, 2020
TiB 136: Taiwan and tail risk; Tiktok and algorithm design; the future of board games; and more... ->
October 13, 2020
TiB 135: AI in 2020; why the world gets weirder and weirder; Big Tech and the stock market; and more... ->
October 6, 2020
TiB 134: "Technological sovereignty"; why we dream; the missing piece in R&D; and more... ->
September 29, 2020
TiB 133: Why the best ideas don't win; in praise of brain drain; how to preserve political norms; and more... ->
September 22, 2020
TiB 132: Computers vs the human brain; video games and predicting the future; disruption disrupted; and more... ->
September 15, 2020
TiB 131: How smart are politicians; why tech needs some crazy money; religious fundamentalism and the internet; and more... ->
September 8, 2020
TiB 130: Why elections today seem so high stakes; evaluating extreme talent; the golden age of R&D; and more... ->
September 1, 2020
TiB 129: Authoritarian regimes and AI; the scenius of Silicon Valley; "Optimal Kickstarter"; and more... ->
August 25, 2020
TiB 128: AI as an arms race; the depressing truth about organisations; scaling machine learning; and more... ->
August 18, 2020
TiB 127: The most powerful people in the world; the limitations of VC; murder mystery games; and more... ->
August 11, 2020
TiB 126: Why democracy is doomed; in praise of ARPA; Trump as geopolitical banker; and more... ->
August 4, 2020
TiB 125: The tragedy of lost genius; why scientists shouldn't be creative; interests and ideology in US-China policy; and more... ->
July 28, 2020
TiB 124: How to create tech optimism; the future of AI; ideological warfare via TikTok; and more... ->
July 21, 2020
TiB 123: Information revolutions and public discourse; the future of elites; supply chains as public goods; and more... ->
July 14, 2020
TiB 122: Newton, Keynes and the power of science; how great powers fall; machine learning and the humanities and more... ->
July 7, 2020
TiB 121: The geopolitics of digital currencies; how to avoid a civil war; experiments in techno-populism; and more... ->
June 30, 2020
TiB 120: How to build a culture of building; 12,000 years of economic growth; coronavirus and inequality; and more... ->
June 23, 2020
TiB 119: Internet diplomacy in 2020; AI that writes poetry; startup ecosystems and art history; and more... ->
June 16, 2020
TiB 118: How to predict the apocalypse; finding Hong Kong a new home; competition in science; and more... ->
June 9, 2020
TiB 117: How progress happens; remote work and the end of Silicon Valley; how to allocate R&D spend; and more... ->
June 2, 2020
TiB 116: The political consequences of remote work; communal genius; how markets obscure history; and more... ->
May 26, 2020
TiB 115: "Too many entrepreneurs"; the geopolitics of the tech supply chain; "surprise" in science; and more... ->
May 19, 2020
TiB 114: WTF happened in 1971; the power of machine learning in science; the court case that could destroy the EU; and more... ->
May 12, 2020
TiB 113: When AI writes tax policy; a unified theory of innovation; can central banks learn to play politics; and more... ->
May 5, 2020
TiB 112: Is Singapore too efficient? Network epistemology and VC. Where does the money of the rich end up? And more... ->
April 28, 2020
TiB 111: "Disrupting government"; Amazon's altruism; the moral foundations of capitalism; and more... ->
April 21, 2020
TiB 110: The new politics of central banking; existential risk; the upside of the Black Death (!); and more... ->
April 14, 2020
TiB 109: China’s coronavirus dilemma; physical vs virtual economies; and a new moral framework for pandemic planning ->
April 7, 2020
TiB 108: All the money fit to print; the epistemology of coronavirus; pandemics in historical perspective; and more... ->
March 31, 2020
TiB 107: Will coronavirus lead to US-China conflict; debunking the Blitz spirit; and the limits of cost/benefit analysis ->
March 24, 2020
TiB 106: Coronavirus and the clash of civilisations, the end of the the sovereign individual; and a glimpse of the brave new world of massive fiscal stimulus ->
March 17, 2020
TiB 105: What Bloomberg and Softbank have in common; why politicians got so old; how the decline of Rome made us rich; and more... ->
March 10, 2020
TiB 104: How coronavirus will change politics; the Apollo Missions' lessons for government; the downsides of living forever; and more... ->
March 3, 2020
TiB 103: Can machine learning save Communism; Coronavirus and authoritarianism; how to save science; and more... ->
February 25, 2020
TiB 102: Who's winning the war on cancer; Thiel on decadence and apocalypse; the future of community; and more... ->
February 18, 2020
TiB 101: How Confucius would design an AI; why everyone is so incompetent; can hedge funds disrupt venture capital; and more... ->
February 11, 2020
TiB 100: How to design a new ARPA; Tyler Cowen on talent allocation; how the internet is changing public intellectuals; and more... ->
February 4, 2020
TiB 99: facial recognition and the race to the bottom; what (doesn't) cause polarisation; the long run effect of the Cultural Revolution; and more... ->
January 28, 2020
TiB 98: What McKinsey and Deng Xiaoping have in common; a simple model of Brexit and Trump; more on Organizing Genius; and more... ->
January 21, 2020
TiB 97: the end of the tech cycle; the limits of explainable AI; organising genius; and more... ->
January 14, 2020
TiB 96: The best books of the decade; Dominic Cummings and state capacity; divisions in China; and more... ->
January 7, 2020
TiB 95: The best links and tweets of 2019 - the TiB year in review ->
December 17, 2019
TiB 94: How to fix the UK's productivity problem; the cash value of citizenship; the political consequences of encryption; and more... ->
December 10, 2019
TiB 93: Pro-authoritarian technologies; a theory of startup ecosystems; the Iran deal and global regulation; and more... ->
December 3, 2019
TiB 92: the bear case on China; why this will be a century of secessions; the slowing rate of progress; and more... ->
November 26, 2019
TiB 91: The biggest financial crime ever; why rich people feel poor; biological interventions; and more... ->
November 19, 2019
TiB 90: Macron on tech sovereignty; how the Catholic Church made our minds; Bitcoin and the Reformation; and more... ->
November 12, 2019
TiB 89: the costs of financialisation; reframing AI safety; civilisational collapse... ->
November 5, 2019
TiB 88: the internet in historical context; what China wants; new kinds of charities; and more ->
October 29, 2019
Thoughts in Between 87: Zuckerberg on free speech; Communism in history; the best essays; and more ->
October 22, 2019
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February 26, 2019
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January 22, 2019
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December 18, 2018
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November 27, 2018
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October 30, 2018
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October 23, 2018
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October 16, 2018
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October 2, 2018
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September 25, 2018
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August 28, 2018
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July 31, 2018
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July 3, 2018
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June 26, 2018
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June 12, 2018
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June 5, 2018
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May 22, 2018
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May 1, 2018
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April 24, 2018
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