Podcast : FT Tech Tonic Episode : Trump’s tech bros: The enigma of Peter Thiel Release date : 2025-07-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Peter Thiel is unlike any other Trump tech bro. As well as a wildly successful investor, he’s seen as a thinker - the philosopher king of Silicon Valley. Thiel’s acolytes in the tech world and Washington include vice-president JD Vance but his relationship with the Trump camp is complicated. And there are sti...
Jul 08, 2025•31 min
Podcast : Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist Episode : Ep 114: Flying Cars Are About to Change the World — Joby CEO JoeBen Bevirt Release date : 2025-06-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization JoeBen Bevirt has spent two decades building electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, and now he's on the cusp of commercial approval and rollout. Will flying cars be as transformational as the automobile? How will air taxis impact our cities and...
Jun 05, 2025•39 min
Podcast : The Trajectory Episode : Richard Ngo - A State-Space of Positive Posthuman Futures [Worthy Successor, Episode 8] Release date : 2025-04-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This is an interview with Richard Ngo, AGI researcher and thinker - with extensive stints at both OpenAI and DeepMind. This is an additional installment of our "Worthy Successor" series - where we explore the kinds of posthuman intelligences that deserve to steer th...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 46 min
Podcast : Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11) Episode : AI, data centers, and power economics, with Azeem Azhar Release date : 2025-02-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Azeem Azhar, writer of the Exponential View newsletter, to discuss the massive data center buildout powering AI and its implications for our energy infrastructure. The conversation covers the physical limitations of modern da...
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 14 min
Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway Release date : 2025-02-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Technology doesn’t force us to do anything — it merely opens doors. But military and economic competition pushes us through. That’s how today’s guest Allan Dafoe — director of frontier safety and governance at Google DeepMind — explains one of the deepest...
Feb 14, 2025•2 hr 44 min
Podcast : "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis Episode : Claude Cooperates! Exploring Cultural Evolution in LLM Societies, with Aron Vallinder & Edward Hughes Release date : 2025-02-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Edward Hughes, researcher at Google DeepMind, and Aron Vallinder, an independent researcher and PIBBSS fellow discuss their pioneering research on cultural evolution ...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 33 min
Podcast : Epoch After Hours Episode : AI in 2030, Scaling Bottlenecks, and Explosive Growth Release date : 2025-01-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In our first episode of Epoch After Hours, Ege, Tamay and Jaime dig into what they expect AI to look like by 2030; why economists are underestimating the likelihood of explosive growth; the startling regularity in technological trends like Moore's Law; Moravec’s paradox, and how we might overcome...
Jan 18, 2025•2 hr 2 min
Podcast : AI Summer Episode : Ajeya Cotra on AI safety and the future of humanity Release date : 2025-01-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Ajeya Cotra works at Open Philanthropy, a leading funder of efforts to combat existential risks from AI. She has led the foundation’s grantmaking on technical research to understand and reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI. She is co-author of Planned Obsolescence , a newsletter about AI futurism and...
Jan 16, 2025•1 hr 13 min
Podcast : Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) Episode : Nora Belrose - AI Development, Safety, and Meaning Release date : 2024-11-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Nora Belrose, Head of Interpretability Research at EleutherAI, discusses critical challenges in AI safety and development. The conversation begins with her technical work on concept erasure in neural networks through LEACE (LEAst-squares Concept Erasure), while highlighting how neu...
Nov 30, 2024•2 hr 30 min
Podcast : No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups Episode : The Road to Autonomous Intelligence with Andrej Karpathy Release date : 2024-09-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Andrej Karpathy joins Sarah and Elad in this week of No Priors. Andrej, who was a founding team member of OpenAI and former Senior Director of AI at Tesla, needs no introduction. In this episode, Andrej discusses the evolution of self-driving cars, comp...
Sep 05, 2024•44 min
Podcast : Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) Episode : Joscha Bach - AGI24 Keynote (Cyberanimism) Release date : 2024-08-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Dr. Joscha Bach introduces a surprising idea called "cyber animism" in his AGI-24 talk - the notion that nature might be full of self-organizing software agents, similar to the spirits in ancient belief systems. Bach suggests that consciousness could be a kind of software running on our br...
Aug 21, 2024•57 min
Podcast : The Trajectory Episode : Nick Bostrom - AGI That Saves Room for Us (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 1) Release date : 2024-07-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This is an interview with Nick Bostrom, the Founding Director of Future of Humanity Institute Oxford. This is the first installment of The Worthy Successor series - where we unpack the preferable and non-preferable futures humanity might strive towards in the years ahead. Th...
Jul 27, 2024•38 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives Release date : 2024-07-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization I talked with Patrick McKenzie (known online as patio11) about how a small team he ran over a Discord server got vaccines into Americans' arms: A story of broken incentives, outrageous incompetence, and how a few individuals with high agency saved 1000s of lives. Enjoy! Watch on YouTube...
Jul 26, 2024•2 hr 2 min
Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #189 – Rachel Glennerster on why we still don’t have vaccines that could save millions Release date : 2024-05-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization "You can’t charge what something is worth during a pandemic. So we estimated that the value of one course of COVID vaccine in January 2021 was over $5,000. They were selling for between $6 and $40. So nothing like their social value. Now, don’t get me wrong. I ...
May 31, 2024•2 hr 49 min
Podcast : Political Philosophy Podcast Episode : THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManus Release date : 2024-04-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What defines the modern American right? Matt McManus argues we should understand the movement as fundementally about hierarchy, we then get into a general conversation about the Biden administration and the direction of the US Left....
May 18, 2024•1 hr 44 min
Podcast : The Gradient: Perspectives on AI Episode : David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case Against Longtermism Release date : 2024-05-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Episode 122 I spoke with Professor David Thorstad about: * The practical difficulties of doing interdisciplinary work * Why theories of human rationality should account for boundedness, heuristics, and other cognitive limitations * why EA epistemics suck (ok, it’s a ...
May 13, 2024•2 hr 19 min
Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : Peter Thiel on Political Theology Release date : 2024-04-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this conversation recorded live in Miami, Tyler and Peter Thiel dive deep into the complexities of political theology, including why it’s a concept we still need today, why Peter’s against Calvinism (and rationalism), whether the Old Testament should lead us to be woke, why Carl Schmitt is enjoying a resur...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 15 min
Podcast : Making Sense with Sam Harris Episode : #361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism Release date : 2024-04-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about the implosion of FTX and the effect that it has had on the Effective Altruism movement. They discuss the logic of “earning to give,” the mind of SBF, his philanthropy, the character of the EA community, potential problems with focusing on long...
Apr 02, 2024•1 hr 25 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind Release date : 2024-03-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Had so much fun chatting with my good friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas on the podcast. No way to summarize it, except: This is the best context dump out there on how LLMs are trained, what capabilities they're likely to soon have, and what exactly is going on ...
Mar 30, 2024•3 hr 12 min
Podcast : Joe Carlsmith Audio Episode : An even deeper atheism Release date : 2024-01-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Who isn't a paperclipper? Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/11/an-even-deeper-atheism This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays that have been re...
Mar 11, 2024•25 min
Podcast : a16z Podcast Episode : Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety Release date : 2024-01-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Flock is a public safety technology platform that operates in over 4,000 cities across the United States, and solves about 2,200 crimes daily. That’s 10 percent of reported crimes nationwide. Taken from a16z’s recent LP Summit, a16z General Partner David Ulevitch joins forces with Flock Saf...
Jan 10, 2024•34 min
Podcast : "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis Episode : Biden's Executive Order and AI Safety with Flo Crivello, Founder of Lindy AI Release date : 2023-11-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Flo Crivello, founder of Lindy AI, joins Nathan to chat about Biden’s executive order, and the state of AI safety. They discuss Flo’s thoughts on the executive order, building AGI kill switches, ...
Nov 08, 2023•55 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover Release date : 2023-10-31 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paul Christiano is the world’s leading AI safety researcher. My full episode with him is out! We discuss: - Does he regret inventing RLHF, and is alignment necessarily dual-use? - Why he has relatively modest timelines (40% by 2040, 15% by 2030), - What do we want post-AGI world to look like (do we want to ...
Nov 01, 2023•3 hr 7 min
Podcast : Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin Episode : Tyler Cowen: From Avant-Garde to Pop (Bonus DJ Episode) Release date : 2023-10-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Tyler Cowen has long nurtured an obsession with music. It’s one of the few addictions Tyler believes is actually conducive to a fulfilling intellectual life. In this bonus episode, an addendum to Rick’s conversation with Tyler, Rick sits with Tyler as he plays and talks through the...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 52 min
Podcast : Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas Episode : 233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism Release date : 2023-04-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Here at the Mindscape Podcast, we are firmly pro-reason. But what does that mean, fundamentally and in practice? How did humanity come into the idea of not just doing things, but doing things for reasons? In this episode we talk with cogniti...
Sep 27, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Podcast : The Book Club Episode : Tom Holland: Dominion Release date : 2019-12-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this week's Book Club, Sam's guest is the historian Tom Holland, author of the new book Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind . The book, though as Tom remarks, you might not know it from the cover, is essentially a history of Christianity -- and an account of the myriad ways, many of them invisible to us, that it has shaped ...
Aug 30, 2023•46 min
Podcast : Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg Episode : How quickly is AI advancing? And should you be working in the field? (with Danny Hernandez) Release date : 2023-08-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Read the full transcript here. Along what axes and at what rates is the AI industry growing? What algorithmic developments have yielded the greatest efficiency boosts? When, if ever, will we hit the upper limits of the amount of computin...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Podcast : Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy Episode : Samo Burja - The Great Founder Theory of History - [Invest Like the Best, EP.339] Release date : 2023-08-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization My guest today is Samo Burja . Samo is the founder of consulting firm, Bismark Analysis, and has dedicated his life’s work to understanding why there has never been an immortal society. His research focuses on institutions, the founders be...
Aug 23, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Podcast : The Joe Walker Podcast Episode : Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm Release date : 2023-08-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Stephen Wolfram is a physicist, computer scientist and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, and the author of A New Kind of Science . Full transcript available at: jnwpod.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...
Aug 17, 2023•4 hr 24 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress Release date : 2023-08-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Here is my conversation with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. Dario is hilarious and has fascinating takes on what these models are doing, why they scale so well, and what it will take to align them. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or any other podcast platfor...
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 59 min
