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The Local Maximum with Max Sklar — 330 episodes · page 1 of 4
Ep. 328 - Restarting the Local Maximum: Book Strategies for 2025
Ep. 327 - The Shape of Thought
Ep. 326 - James Barnes, The Autobiographer
Ep. 325 - Eric Daimler: Perspectives on AI
Ep. 324 - The Technological Singularity Part II
Ep. 323 - The Technological Singularity Part I
Ep. 322 - Coding in the Age of AI
Ep. 321 - Exploring AI with Itamar Friedman
Ep. 320 - Startups, Foursquare, and NYU
Insightful Conversations with Tiffany Grossman
Ep. 318 - Geospatial Visualization with Isaac Brodsky of Fused.io
Ep. 317 - Cellular Automata and Artificial Life
Ep. 316 - Forty
Ep. 315 - Robots, Casinos, and Digital Minimalism
Ep. 314 - AI Intensified
Ep. 313 - Ori Keren: Software, Sports, and LinearB
Ep. 312 - Michael Callahan: Interaction, Identity and Ideology
Ep. 311 - Where We Go Next
Ep. 310 - Another Year, Another Local Maximum
Ep. 309 - The Next Saeculum
Ep. 308 - Generations, Awakenings, and Gen X Comedy
Ep. 307 - The Constitution and Shifting Language
Ep. 306 - Spotify Shrinks, OpenAI Returns, and Household Robots Emerge
Ep. 305 - Fragmented: Health Care and Data with Ilana Yurkiewicz
Ep. 304 - OpenAI Fails to Align
Ep. 303 - Pharaohs and the Exodus with Alexander Hool
Ep. 302 - Sturbridge Village Retreat
Ep. 301 - Cultural Contradictions: War, Academia, and Entertainment
Ep. 300 - War in the Middle East, Part I
Ep. 299 - Sam Kamani with an Intro to Web 3
Ep. 298 - Veto Powers, Programming Languages, and Terminals
Ep. 297 - Stephan Kinsella: The Fallacy of Intellectual Property
Ep. 296 - Government vs Google and Amazon Anti-Trust
Ep. 295 - Rewriting the Constitution: Did the Founders Screw up the Senate
Ep. 294 - State Chains and Copyright Claims
Ep. 293 - Twitter Rants: Jon Stewart, Scrum, and Just Plain Numbers
Ep. 292 - Copyright Clashes, Literary Science, and Rational Distributions
Ep. 291 - Publishers vs Librarians, Artificial Digital Scarcity, and Revisiting Bertrand
Ep. 290 - Generational Turnings versus Technological Change
Ep. 289 - Revamping Dental Tech with Melissa Luvisi
Ep. 288 - Is Artificial Intelligence a Threat to Humanity?
Ep. 287 - The Rise and Fall of ESG with Peter Earle
Ep. 286 - Consciousness Bets, Reverse Turing Tests, and Display Tech
Ep. 285 - Max Changes the Constitution, Part III
Ep. 284 - Max Changes the Constitution, Part II
Ep. 283 - Max Changes the Constitution, Part I
Ep. 282 - Meganets with David Auerbach
Ep. 281 - The Mixed Reality Moment
Ep. 280 - How to Attack Truth Seeking
Ep. 279 - Covid and Civil Liberties
Ep. 278 - Proof of Stake, Map Powers, and Google answer OpenAI
Ep. 277 - Open Source Sagas with Max Howell
Ep. 276 - The Dictator of Easton at 21
Ep. 275 - Connecticut Chronicles, Columbia Conferences & Questioning Bots
Ep. 274 - Quantum Computing with Ian MacCormack
Ep. 273 - Stop Making AI Boring
Ep. 272 - Data Science History with Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones
Ep. 271 - Semiconductors, Lithography, and Moore's Law with Adam Kane of ASML
Ep. 270 - Exciting and Terrifying: NYT Podcast Trashing, GPT4, and Bank Runs
Ep. 269 - Image Recognition Technology for Health with Susan Conover
Ep. 268 - Pascal's Mugging, Doomsday Clocks, and the AGI Debate
Ep. 267 - Bernoulli's Fallacy with Aubrey Clayton
Ep. 266 - Simplicity, Complexity, and Text Classification with Joel Grus
Ep. 265 - The Multi-Armed Bandit
Ep. 264 - Talking Tik Tok, Privacy, and Propaganda with Adam Kovacevich
Ep. 263 - Relative Probability
Ep. 262 - Category Theory, Google Responds, and Another Covid Retro
Ep. 261 - Generative AI's Grand Entrance
Ep. 260 - New Year Predictions: Generative AI, Self Driving Cars, and Web3
Ep. 259 - New Years Thoughts
Ep. 258 - Sports and AI: Jason Syversen Changing the Game with SportsVisio
Ep. 257 - Lessons from the of Debate with Gene Epstein
Ep. 256 - The Broken World of Big Tech
Ep. 255 - AI's Got Chat: The Rise of chatGPT
Ep. 254 - Alexa Disappoints, Tesla Self Drives, and Hurricane Addendum
Ep. 253 - Make Better Decisions with Helen and Dave Edwards
Ep. 252 - Hurricane Sandy After Ten Years
Ep. 251 - Debate: Monarchy vs Democracy
Ep. 250 - The Bird Flips
Ep. 249 - The Sleeping Beauty Problem
Ep. 248 - The Globe as Hexagons with Isaac Brodsky
Ep. 247 - Twitter, Paypal, and Ukraine (Musk's World)
Ep. 246 - AJ Jacobs: The Puzzler
Ep. 245 - Axioms of Probability
Ep. 244 - Phyl Terry: Never Search Alone
Ep. 243 - Eric Daimler on Conexus and Category Theory
Ep. 242 - Artificial Art, Reverse Proxies, and Extraterrestrial Dice
Ep. 241 - No Code
Ep. 240 - Turning The Crypto Corner
Ep. 239 - Local Maximum Tech Retreat Panel
Ep. 238 - New York Times Finally Against Censorship
Ep. 237 - Thinking about Quality with Jonathon Wright
Ep. 236 - Alzheimer's Research Setback and Facebook News Demoted
Ep. 235 - Seasteading with Tony Olsen
Ep. 234 - Simplexes and Distributions
Ep. 233 - Crypto Winter Raging
Ep. 232 - Intro to Inflation
Ep. 231 - The Increasing Cost of Intelligence
Ep. 230 - Another Google AI Spat, Self Awareness, and the Eliza Effect
Ep. 229 - Fun with Bayesian Statistics with Will Kurt