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Chris's AI Deep Dive — 137 episodes
Project Maven: The Dawn of AI Warfare
Recession: The Real Reasons Economies Shrink
RAND Economic Deterrence to Prevent Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
Autonomy
Replace, Augment, Disrupt: AI Organizational Decisions and the Trilemma
Canaries in the Coal Mine: AI Employment Effects
AI Agents: Economics of Market Design Transformation
Accounting for Growth and Financial Deception
Capital Account: A Money Manager's Report of the Dot Com Bubble
3. Containing the Technological Wave's Threat to the Nation-State
2. The Coming Wave of Intelligence and Life
1. The Inevitable Wave: AI and Synthetic Biology
5. Acquiring Values and Choosing Criteria for Superintelligence
4. Controlling Superintelligence: Capability and Motivation Methods
3. Superintelligence: Powers, Motivations, and Existential Risks
2. The Kinetics of an Intelligence Explosion
1. Paths and Forms of Superintelligence
Null Compliance is Not Non-Compliance in NYC's Algorithm Audits
Rickover: Underway My Way
Drivers of Diverging Electricity Costs in California
RAND's Influence and Division in the Vietnam War
The Power of the Machine: Global Inequality
American Technological Sublime
The Crypto Multiplier
The Venture Capital Cycle: Syndication, Exit, and Performance Pt 3
The Venture Capital Cycle: Structure and Investment Strategies Pt 2
The Venture Capital Cycle Pt 1
Paper Presentation
FHEVM: Cross-Chain Confidential Smart Contracts
6. Bubbles, Euphoria, and Economic Reality
5. The Anatomy of Financial Crises: From Euphoria to Collapse
4. Credit Expansion and Speculative Manias
3. The Dynamics of Speculative Manias
2. The Anatomy of Financial Crises
1. Global Financial Bubbles and Crises: A Historical Analysis
Quantum-Safe Financial Security: An IBM Imperative
Global Payments 2024: Simpler Interfaces, Complex Reality
The Next Payments Era: Opportunities for Banks
Cyber Resilience for Financial Services: A Ticking Clock
Cryptographic Engineering and Side-Channel Attacks
Preface to Bitcoin: A Digital Cash History
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System
Learn AI-Assisted Python Programming
Changing the Game
10: Building Robust AI Applications: Architecture and Feedback
9: AI Model Inference Optimization
8: Engineering High-Quality Datasets for AI Models
7: Finetuning, PEFT, and Model Merging
6: Retrieval-Augmented Generation and AI Agents
5: Prompting, Attacks, and Defenses
4: Evaluating AI Systems and Building Evaluation Pipelines
Large Language Model Labor Market Impacts
Governing Debt and Risk: A Global Analysis . Ray Dalio Pt 4
Debt Crises: 1944 to Present. Ray Dalio Pt 3
How Countries Go Broke by Ray Dalio Part 2
Understanding How Countries Go Broke by Ray Dalio Pt 1
Real-World AI Task Usage Across Occupations
Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025
Venture Capital and Strategic Investment for Government Mission Capabilities
Mastering Meetings and Career Growth
Reading People and Workplace Dynamics
Mastering Workplace Dynamics: A Guide to Professional Success
Navigating Workplace Interactions and Expectations
Attempting Success: Initiative in Early Career
The Unspoken Rules of Workplace Success
The Simple Macroeconomics of AI
Trump Economic Team's Plan to Reform the Federal Reserve
Why Trump's Tariffs Actually Make Sense (Origins of a Trade War)
Weaponizing Research Funding: The Attack on Universities
Stocks for the Long Run? Sometimes yes. Sometimes no.
Gary Stevenson's "The Trading Game: A Confession"
Lifecycle Investing: Stocks versus Bonds
Lifetime Portfolio Selection Under Uncertainty
Superintelligence Strategy: Deterrence, Nonproliferation, and Competitiveness
California's Electricity Problem
Netflix and Video Games: The Streaming Giant's Gaming Strategy
Why Roblox is Unprofitable
Youtube's Recommendation Algorithmn
The Federal Reserve and the Next Financial Crisis: Analysis of It's Doomsday Book
Housing Public Policy: A Home Without Equity Is Just A Rental With Debt
16. Questions and Speculations on Artificial Intelligence
15. Knowledge, Abstraction, and Analogy in AI
14. The Barrier of Meaning: Understanding in Humans and AI
13. Question Answering and the Limits of AI
12. Machine Translation and Image Captioning
11. Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning
10. Beyond Games: The Limits and Potential of Reinforcement Learning
9. Mastering Games with Deep Learning
8. Reinforcement Learning: Training Robots and Beyond
7. Trustworthy AI: Benefits, Trade-offs, and Ethics
6. The Limitations of Deep Learning
5. ImageNet and the Rise of ConvNets
4. Easy Things Are Hard: The Deep Learning Revolution in Computer Vision
3. Artificial Intelligence: The Quest for Human-Level Intelligence
2. Neural Networks and the Ascent of Machine Learning
1. The Genesis of Artificial Intelligence
The Rise and Fall of a Forbidden Fruit
The Grandfather of Skill-Based Matchmaking (SBMM): Arpad Elo and Chess History
Book Club Part 13: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Book Club Part 12: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Book Club Part 11: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Book Club Part 10: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Book Club Part 9: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Book Club Part 8: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Book Club Part 7: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Book Club Part 6: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Apple Researchers (interns): LLMs can't reason. Shocking!!!
Book Club Part 5: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Book Club Part 4: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Book Club Part 3: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Book Club Part 2: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Book Club Part 1: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Part 7 of Supercommunicators Book Club: Harvard = Happiness?
Part 6 of Supercommunicators Book Club: Critiquing Netflix
Part 5 of Supercommunicators Book Club: Stereotypes and Doctors
Modern Warfare 2: Rewriting History
Part 4 of Supercommunicators Book Club: Conflict in Society
An existential treatment of a single world
Part 3 of Supercommunicators Book Club: F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
Part 2 of Supercommunicators Book Club: Dream Team
Part 1 of Supercommunicators Book Club: Spy Game
Andrew Huberman Paper Discussion: The Mice Vision Years
Lex Fridman PhD Dissertation
Faulkner, eat your heart out: A memoir of Bozeman Montana.
Open AI's Ilya Sutskever PhD Dissertation
Book Club Series Teaser: Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
Attention is All You Need Paper by Google Brain
Data Science 101: Regression Discontinuity and Jurassic Park
Data Science 101: Panel Data, Fixed Effects, and Back to the Future
Data Science 101: Causal Inference and Matching
Data Science 101: Difference in Differences
Data Science 101: Synthetic Control Demystified
Andrej Karpathy's PhD Dissertation
Data Science 101: Instrumental Variables Demystified
MrBeast Internal Playbook (Leaked)
My PhD Dissertation
Waymo CEO's PhD Dissertation