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Ep. 228 - All Things Bayesian

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Ep. 227 - Deepmind's Gato and Dreams of Human Level Artificial Intelligence

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Ep. 226 - Podcasting 2.0 with Adam Curry

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Ep. 225 - The Tsunami Arrives and Architecture Astronauts

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Ep. 224 - Living on Crypto with Joel Valenzuela

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Ep. 223 - Elon's Twitter Takeover

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Ep. 222 - Techno-Pessimism in the Stupid Ages

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Ep. 221 - Emotion and AI with Alan Cowen

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Ep. 220 - Twitter's Musk Factor, Chat Bot Intelligence, and Pizza

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Ep. 219 - Artificial Intelligence for Construction with René Morkos

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Ep. 218 - Sampling Bias Correction

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Ep. 217 - Voices from Ukraine

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Ep. 216 - Corona-Fascism with Alu Axelman

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Ep. 215 - Polina Shevchenko: Growing up in Donetsk

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Ep. 214 - War in Ukraine, New York Times Bias

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Ep. 213 - Artificial Consciousness Controversy

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Ep. 212 - Bitcoin and the Lightning Network with Guy Swann

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Ep. 211 - Competition, Consolidation, and Shock

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Ep. 210 - Metaverse Hype and Infinite Sets

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Ep. 209 - Wiped Off the Face of the Internet

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Ep. 208 - Bitcoin and the Fourth Turning with Brandon Quittem

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Ep. 207 - Max Returns with Priors

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Ep. 206 - Topics for the New Year

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Ep. 205 - Developer Hegemony with Erik Dietrich

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Ep. 204 - Free Speech, Moderation, and Censorship with Johnny Nelson

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Ep. 203 - Iraq and Social Choice Theory

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MESSAGE for Local Maximum Listeners - 2021/12/12

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Ep. 202 - Tech Giants at their Saturation Points

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Ep. 201 - Andrew Gelman, Statistical Insights

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Ep. 200 - Milestone Metachat

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Ep. 199 - Regenerating the Past with AI

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Ep. 198 - Passive Computing

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Ep. 197 - Industry Shifts with Meta, Rumble, and Locals

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Ep. 196- Viking Tree Rings and the Prospects of a Trump Social

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Ep. 195 - Why We Sample

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Ep. 194 - Steve Jobs

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Ep. 193 - New Beginnings

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Ep. 192 - What is Intelligence

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Ep. 191 - Tracking Big Trends with Ed McCormack

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Ep. 190 - Layers in Truth Seeking, Smart Toilets, and Set Theory Counting

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Ep. 189 - September 11th Recall Part II - Memories, Aftermath, Rebuilding

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Ep. 188 - September 11th Recall Part I - The Before Time

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Ep. 187 - Coding from Natural Language, NYT Tech Walkout, Off Predictions

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Ep. 186 - Cubans embrace Bitcoin amidst Monetary Oppression, and the Last Jew in Afghanistan

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Ep. 185 - Goldbacks in Your Pocket with Benjamin Shaffer

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Ep. 184 - Academic Freedom, Crypto Regs, and Security Devices

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Ep. 183 - The Metaverse and Digits

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Ep. 182 - Focal Points and Written Constitutions

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Ep. 181 - Redacting your Secrets

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Ep. 180 - Branson, Bezos, and Musk dash to Space

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Ep. 179 - New York attempts Ranked Choice Voting

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Ep. 178 - How Design Makes the World with Scott Berkun

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Ep. 177 - Lessons from Past Predictions on Autonomous Vehicles, Bitcoin, Covid, and Decentralization

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Ep. 176 - Gene Epstein on Economics, Capitalism and Innovation

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Ep. 175 - Predictions Panel on Decentralization, Language Models, and Post-COVID

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Ep. 174 - Jeremy Kauffman, CEO of Odysee and LBRY for Decentralized Video

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Ep. 173 - The Fourth Turning Part II - Emerging from the Crisis

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Ep. 172 - The Fourth Turning Part I - Cycles of History

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Ep. 171 - Ransomware, Security First, and Crypto-corporations

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Ep. 170 - Bayesian Inference Regulations and Network Algorithms

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Ep. 169 - Basecamp’s Boundary on Politics

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Ep. 168 - Urban Augment Reality with Iracema Trevisan

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Ep. 167 - Blockchain Rising: Wordproof and DeFi

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Ep. 166 - Lockdown Memory Holes and Rates of Return

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Ep 165 - Peter McCormack of the What Bitcoin Did Podcast

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Ep. 164 - Anne Griffin on Attracting Employers and AI Product

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Ep. 163 - Flying Cars, Causality, and Digital Art Storage Concerns

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Ep. 162 - Assaf Lev - Cofounder and CEO of Locals

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Ep. 161 - Fighting for Free Speech with Sam Jacobs

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Ep160 - Digital Art, Tokens, and Rationalists

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Ep. 159 - Gresham's Law, More Google Drama, Self Driving San Francisco

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Ep. 158 - Live Free or Die

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Ep. 157 - Financial Tsunami on the Horizon

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Ep. 156 - Machine Vision with Iain Smith

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Ep. 155 - Why Oppose Censorship

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Ep. 154 - Googlezon

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Ep. 153 - Decentralizing Before our Eyes

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Ep. 152 - Computational Breakthroughs: Advances in Ramsey Theory and Quantum Computing

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Ep. 151 - The Pivotal Year 2020

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Ep. 150 - City Living, Waymo Driving, Protein Folding, and Bitcoin Popping

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Ep. 149 - Chaos at Google, Woke AI, and Ultimatums

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Ep. 148 - Lisa Palmer on Real Time Decision Making and Augmented Intelligence

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Ep. 147 - Joining Locals, Media Decline, and Internet Detox

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Ep. 146 - Math, Language, and Intelligence with Tai-Danae Bradley

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Ep. 145 - What is probability: A Philosophical Question with Practical Implications

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Ep. 144 - Brian Mac Mahon of Expert Dojo on Startups

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Ep. 143 - The Last Election Episode

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Ep. 142 - Marsbot for Airpods Launched!

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Ep. 141 - Social Media Giants and the Election, 2016 vs 2020 vs 2024

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Ep. 140 - Why Polls are Tricky with Alex Andorra

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Ep. 139 - Coinbase Goes Apolitical, Libra Languishes, and Deepfakes Rise

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Ep. 138 - Life on Venus, Viking DNA

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Ep. 137 - Bayesian Covid Tests, Topological Computation, and Electoral Systems

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Ep. 136 - Election Martingales and Microsoft’s Milestone

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Ep. 135 - Meaning, Memory, or Just More Semantics

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Ep. 134 - AI Breakthrough and understanding "understanding"

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Ep. 133 - Pointless Topology

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Ep. 132 - Rob Bernstein on Podcasting, Politics, and Porch Tours

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Ep. 131 - Structure, Creativity, and Remote Work with Jeff Meyerson

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Ep. 130 - Science on the Tightrope