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  1. Full Episode: The AI Industrial Revolution

    Full episode with 20 minutes of new material at the end. Software factories, vertical integration, the regulatory frontier, and the autonomous company. Part 1: Waste Tokens, Save Time 00:00 Three Frontier Founders 01:27 AI Software Factories 04:15 Waste Tokens, Save Time 05:47 Models Instructing...

  2. Sell the Truth

    00:00 Be Credible 03:18 “Yes, And” 04:31 Selfish Honesty 05:37 Charisma Is Confidence + Love 07:56 Don’t Manage, Lead 11:16 Hunt Together 14:51 Feed Your (Good) Obsessions 18:57 Sell the Truth 21:07 Good Deal or No Deal 23:39 The Age of Nonlinear Returns — Transcript: http://nav.al/sell USVC is a...

  3. ‘Nothing Ever Happens’ Is Over

    00:00 The Fully Interconnected Startup 04:14 You Don’t Need the Explicit Intranet Anymore 06:55 May You Live in Interesting Times 10:40 Drones Democratize Violence 12:43 Biothreats Could Also Get Democratized 15:09 AI Interfaces Unlock Hardware 17:35 Optimism Requires Creativity -- Transcript:...

  4. A Return to Code

    A Return to Coding 00:15 The Personal App Store 03:08 Vibe Coding Is a Video Game with Real-World Rewards 06:12 Pure Software Is Uninvestable 10:23 A Place for Each Model 14:09 AI Is Eager to Please 17:44 Why Math and Coding? 21:58 The Beginning of the End of Apple’s Dominance 24:04 Coding Agents...

  5. A Motorcycle for the Mind

    If you want to learn, do 0:00 Vibe coding is the new product management 2:13 Training models is the new coding 6:49 Is traditional software engineering dead? 10:13 There is no demand for average 13:07 The hottest new programming language is English 14:12 AI is adapting to us faster than we are...

  6. Curate People

    The Best Only Want to Work With the Best 0:00 You'll Never Be Able to Hire Anybody Better Than You 3:49 Break Every Rule to Get the Best People 6:45 It Just Takes a Small Group of People to Create Something Great 10:19 Find Undiscovered Talent Before Everyone Else 14:56 Great People Have Taste in...

  7. In the Arena

    Inspiration All the Way Down 0:00 Life is Lived in the Arena 2:40 If You Want to Learn, Do 4:51 In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect 6:15 When You Truly Work for Yourself 7:30 Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action 10:12 You Have to Enjoy It a Lot 12:06 Pause, Reflect,...

  8. Find the Simplest Thing That Works

    http://nav.al/simplest

  9. Good Products Are Hard to Vary

    http://nav.al/good-products

  10. Most Books Should Be Skimmed, A Few Should Be Devoured

    Transcript: http://nav.al/devour

  11. The Best Authors Respect the Reader’s Time

    Transcript: http://nav.al/density

  12. It Is Impossible to Fool Mother Nature

    Transcript: http://nav.al/fool

  13. Blame Yourself for Everything, and Preserve Your Agency

    Transcript: http://nav.al/agency

  14. Pause, Reflect, See How Well it Did

    Transcript: http://nav.al/reflect

  15. Hiring a Podcast Editor and Naval’s Chief of Staff

    Transcript: http://nav.al/hiring

  16. You Have to Enjoy It a Lot

    Transcript: http://nav.al/enjoy

  17. Find Your Specific Knowledge Through Action

    Transcript: http://nav.al/action

  18. When You Truly Work for Yourself

    Transcript: http://nav.al/yourself

  19. In Most Difficult Things in Life, The Solution is Indirect

    Transcript: http://nav.al/indirect

  20. If You Want to Learn, Do

    Transcript: http://nav.al/do

  21. Life is Lived in the Arena

    Transcript: http://nav.al/arena

  22. Inspiration all the way down

    Transcript: http://nav.al/inspiration

  23. The Deutsch Files IV

    Connecting the Four Theories into a Unified Whole 0:34 Emergence Is Fundamental 3:18 Constructor Theory Could Transform Multiple Fields 8:30 Innovation Often Emerges Unexpectedly 22:46 Knowledge Evolves Independently Across Universes 29:31 Anti-Rational Memes Hinder Human Progress 31:10 The West...

  24. The Deutsch Files III

    Proving something about AGI is inherently impossible 0:00 Creativity is not just mixing things together 3:05 The superiority of explanatory knowledge 7:48 Knowledge laden information is more resilient than any physical object 12:36 The problems of cloning people 15:05 Objections to Taking…

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  25. The Deutsch Files II

    The universality of computation and explanation 0:00 The growth of knowledge begins with problems 4:56 Problems are clashes between ideas 9:57 Evolution is not the survival of the fittest 14:50 Bad philosophy in quantum theory 26:46 Free will is intimately connected with knowledge-creation 33:41...

  26. The Deutsch Files I

    Good Science Fiction is Hard to Vary 2:08 ChatGPT is Not a Step Towards AGI 5:36 Creativity is Fundamentally Impossible to Define 13:35 The Binary of Personhood and Non-Personhood 23:41 David Deutsch’s Life Philosophy 32:06 The Clash of Civilizations 44:03 — Transcript…

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  27. David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 2

    Popper’s Impact 0:00 Creative Guesses 2:18 Experiments, Demonstrations, and Measurements 4:25 Taking Theories Seriously 10:25 New Paradigms 15:58 Foundations of Science 23:30 The Enlightenment 25:39 Misinformation 29:45 — Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch-2

  28. David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race, Part 1

    Introduction 0:00 The Human Race 2:11 Knowledge Creation 12:34 AGI 15:50 Taking Children Seriously 23:30 Good Explanations 27:49 Quantum Computers 36:35 — Transcript http://nav.al/david-deutsch

  29. Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 2

    The elder statesman of smart contract blockchains 0:00 The Ethereum community 1:22 The DAO hack 2:34 Vitalik’s finest and worst moments in protocol politics 5:18 Becoming a Twitter memelord 7:45 Vitalik’s influence on Eth today 8:59 It’s getting harder to do big things in Eth 10:38 Goals outside...

  30. Vitalik: Ethereum, Part 1

    Introduction 0:00 Haseeb’s background 0:22 Vitalik’s background 2:43 A blockchain you can build any app on top of 7:02 Eth trades efficiency for transparency 10:18 Like plain text, Eth is simple and efficient 12:41 Only high-value transactions can afford the blockchain 13:08 Doing away with...

  31. The Beginning of Infinity, Part 2

    Transcript http://nav.al/infinity-1

  32. To a Caveman Very Few Things Are Resources

    Transcript http://nav.al/caveman

  33. Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite

    Transcript http://nav.al/infinite-resources

  34. Groups Never Admit Failure

    Transcript: http://nav.al/failure

  35. Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It

    Transcript http://nav.al/social

  36. Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback

    Transcript http://nav.al/feedback

  37. The Poverty of Compromise

    Transcript http://nav.al/compromise

  38. Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier

    Transcript: http://nav.al/decentralization

  39. Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps

    Transcript http://nav.al/credibility

  40. One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones

    Transcript http://nav.al/einstein

  41. Ideas Are the New Oil

    Transcript http://nav.al/ideas

  42. Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources

    Transcript http://nav.al/resources

  43. Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away

    Transcript http://nav.al/far-away

  44. If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It

    Transcript: http://nav.al/program

  45. The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small

    Transcript http://nav.al/existence

  46. Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth

    Transcript http://nav.al/intelligent

  47. Where Are the Aliens?

    Transcript http://nav.al/aliens

  48. It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown

    Transcript: http://nav.al/mind-blowing

  49. More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI

    Transcript: http://nav.al/agi

  50. We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species

    Transcript http://nav.al/species

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