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Undertone

by Dan Schulz

Conversations with the most interesting people on the planet.

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  1. Henry Oliver

    Henry Oliver is the author of the book "Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life" and prolific blogger on literature. Episode transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:38) Late Bloomers (0:07:28) Great Man theory of history (0:16:14) The Common…

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  2. Jan Swafford

    Jan Swafford is an author and composer of classical music. He's written canonical biographies on Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Ives, and is a composer of works such as Landscape with Traveler, From the Shadow of the Mountain, and The Silence at Yuma Point. Episode transcript -- Timestamps...

  3. Eli Dourado

    Eli Dourado is the chief economist at the Abundance Institute and writes and thinks about how to increase the pace of American economic growth. Episode transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:43) Non-TFP econ metrics (0:04:59) Are ideas getting harder to find? (0:06:52) Economics as a…

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  4. Sebastian Mallaby

    Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Mallaby contributes to a variety of publications, including Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times, where he spent two years as a...

  5. Nabeel S. Qureshi

    Nabeel is a Visiting Scholar at the Mercatus Center focused on developing an optimistic vision for AI, but as you’ll see in this conversation his breadth of interests goes about as wide as you can imagine. We talk about foreign film, interpreting the Iliad, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, Derek…

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  6. Sarah Constantin

    Sarah and I talk about ultrasound neuromodluation, AI, and cancer research. -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:22) Ultrasound neuromodulation (0:02:33) Where is it in the tech lifecycle? (0:03:48) Why should it be possible? (0:07:44) How impactful will neuromodulation be? (0:12:08) Startups...

  7. Alexey Guzey

    Alexey and I talk about science, productivity, and utilitarianism. -- Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:23) How accessible should a good research paper be? (03:47) Good taste (07:07) What does Russia get right? (12:05) Favorite Dostoyevsky novel (14:16) Utilitarianism (16:42) High IQ v genius (17:59)...

  8. Noah Smith

    Noah and I talk about Keynes' 15 hour work week, Piketty's r>g, economic development in Africa, Javier Milei, Anime, and more. -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:30) Noah’s intellectual influences (0:10:20) Javier Milei (0:11:43) Which macroeconomist would Noah give the highest grade? (0:13:47)...

  9. Tyler Cowen

    Tyler and I talk about nearly everything. Transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:28) Identifying talent on Tyler’s podcast (0:03:48) Why are follow up questions overrated? (0:04:21) Tyler’s preferred guest career stage (0:05:16) Optimal frequency for recording podcasts (0:05:50) Tyler’s...

  10. Samo Burja

    Samo and I talk about history, gerontocracy, and energy. -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:21) Knowledge decaying over time (0:06:02) History and the overabundance of information (0:11:10) History as a profession (0:13:32) What would Hitler and Stalin think of our textbooks? (0:16:44) What…

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  11. Vitalik Buterin

    Vitalik and I talk about libertarianism, Ethereum, and AI. Transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:21) Governance mechanisms (0:02:32) Talent in crypto (0:10:02) Talent clusters (0:15:23) Crypto conferences (0:19:07) Vitalik’s vision for ETH (0:28:51) Libertarian canon (0:47:25) ETH…

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  12. Adam Mastroianni

    Adam and I talk about humor, peer review, and the future of science. Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:45) Is bias overrated? (0:01:46) Researcher ambition (0:05:52) Illusion of moral decline (0:08:10) Morality over time (0:11:33) Humor and teaching (0:13:48) Misconceptions about humor (0:16:48)...

  13. Scott Sumner

    Scott and I talk about film, literature, asset bubbles, and monetary policy. Transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:33) Fiction for economists (0:03:44) Knausgaard or Proust? (0:07:04) TV or film? (0:11:58) Joseph Conrad and Werner Herzog (0:14:29) Underrated writers (0:16:47) Do…

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  14. Sam Hammond

    Sam and I talk about Hegel, LLM consciousness, and intellectual breadth. Transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:38) Joseph Heath (0:02:52) Iain Banks and defunctionalized culture (0:05:46) Memetic cultures (0:06:39) Misinterpreting Hegel (0:08:05) Sam's Hegelian influence (0:09:41)...

  15. Zvi Mowshowitz

    Zvi and I talk about AI and strategy games. Transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:43) What makes a good strategy game? (0:05:29) Culture of Magic: The Gathering (0:10:14) Raising the status of games (0:13:31) First mover advantage in LLMs (0:18:23) Consumer vs. enterprise AI (0:21:28)...

  16. Rohit Krishnan

    Rohit and I talk about efficient organizations, influencing curiosity, the future of VC. -- Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:17) BS jobs (04:36) SBF on employee efficiency (11:02) AI on employee efficiency (14:56) Efficient organizations as a thesis (19:53) Are people or more less curious today?...

  17. Steve Hsu

    Steve and I talk about gene editing, polygenic scores, and human flourishing. Transcript -- Timestamps (0:00:00) Intro (0:00:33) Genomic Prediction (0:05:54) IVF (0:12:34) Phenotypic data (0:15:42) Predicting height (0:28:27) Pleiotropy (0:39:14) Optimism (0:45:03) Gene editing (0:48:27) Super...

  18. Bryan Caplan

    Bryan and I talk about his new book, Voters as Mad Scientists. -- Timestamps (00:00) Intro (05:15) Social desirability bias (15:15) Left v right (22:07) The respect motive (28:40) Material v rhetorical dominance (33:00) Extremism (39:28) Venerating great names (44:04) Bryan's bets (48:07) Bryan's...

  19. Robin Hanson

    Robin and I talk about the sacred, humanity's descendants, and social rot. Episode transcript: ⁠⁠https://www.danschulz.co/p/1-robin-hanson⁠⁠ -- Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:31) Changing careers late in life (01:29) Philosophy (04:33) AI (15:20) The sacred (29:56) Humans exploring the universe...

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Conversations with the most interesting people on the planet.

HOSTED BY

Dan Schulz

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