All Episodes
The Orthogonal Bet — 77 episodes
Paul Rony on Lessons from Computer History
Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock on the Recurse Center
Corey Maley on the philosophy of science and computation
Joel Simon on "Beyond Slop"
Stephen Webb on 75 Answers to the Fermi Paradox
David Edmonds on "Parfit"
Edward Ashton on "After The Fall"
Lori Emerson on the Media Archaeology Lab
Brendan Schlagel on Learning Communities
Gordon Brander on Scenario Planning
Florian Jehn on Summarizing Collapse Research
Dexter Palmer on Writing Literary Fiction with Sci-Fi Tropes
Stuart Buck on "The Case for Crazy Philanthropy"
Tinkered Thinking on White Mirror
Alec Nevala-Lee on Luis Alvarez
Nick Foster on "Could Should Might Don’t"
David Edmonds on Death in a Shallow Pond
Rohit Krishnan on Training AI to Write Better
Linda Liukas on Teaching Kids to Code Through Play
Molly Mielke on What Makes a Founder Worth Betting On
Daniel Temkin on Esoteric Programming Languages
Parker Owens on Parker's Brick Builds
Kristoffer Tjalve on The Internet Phone Book
Edward Ashton on The Fourth Consort
Neal Agarwal on neal.fun
Julian Gough on the Evolution of Universes
Étienne Fortier-Dubois on Tech Trees
Chris Ferrie on Writing "Quantum Physics for Babies"
Evan Armstrong on Launching The Leverage and Rethinking Tech Media
Gabe Henry on "Enough is Enuf"
Daryl Gregory on Simulation Theory and the Great American Glitch Tour
Kenneth Stanley on the Disruptive Power of Open-Endedness
Clive Thompson on the Ramifications of “Vibe Coding”
Alec Nevala-Lee on Buckminster Fuller
Eliot Peper on developing lore around AI agents
Anna Gat on Building Interintellect’s Global Agora
Samuel Arbesman on The Magic of Code
Michael Rosen on Golems, Dybbuks & the Four Quadrants of AI
Nick Bowden on Building a Real World SimCity
Lu Wilson on Art of Creative Coding
Sara Walker on "Life As No One Knows It"
Peter Bebergal on the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons
Samantha John on Hopscotch the easy bake oven of code
Torie Bosch on the 26 Lines of Code That Changed the World
Jason Crawford on The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
John Hendrix on "The Mythmakers"
Nadia Asparouhova on ANTIMEMETICS
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang on REST & SHORTER
Lawrence Lundy-Bryan on how data-driven VC is over
Nadia Drake on The Arecibo Message our "Selfie of Humanity"
Niko McCarty on Building Asimov Press and Writing for Ambitious Readers
Dave Jilk on AI, Poetry, and the Future of AGI
Henry Oliver on Embracing Second Acts
Dominic Falcao on How Deep Science Ventures Redefines Deep Tech Innovation
Max Bennett on A Brief History of Intelligence
Lev Grossman on The Role of Complexity in World-Building
Alex Miller on The Wonders of Graph Paper and Algorithmic Art
J. Doyne Farmer on Complexity Economics
Tarin Ziyaee on Artificial Life and Robotic Evolution
Omar Rizwan on Connecting Online Communities to In-Person Programming
Eli Altman on The Art of Naming
Alex Komoroske on How to Navigate Complexity Within a Large Organizations
Adrian Tchaikovsky on Bio Trajectories and the Importance of Long-Term Thinking
John Strausbaugh on The Harsh Realities of the Soviet Space Program
Michael Levin on Understanding Embodied Intelligence
Laurel Schwulst on The Quest to Build the Fruitful Web
Eliot Peper on The Art of Cultivating Curiosity
Hilary Mason on Building a Fractal Combinatorial Trope Machine
Amy Kuceyeski on Using Computational Biology to Understand How the Brain Works
What the Microsoft Outage Reveals about Complex Systems
Kristoffer Tjalve on The Poetic Web
Alice Albrecht on What AI Can Learn from Human Cognition
Philip Ball on ‘How Life Works'
Ben Reinhardt on How to fund R&D that is for the public good?
Chaim Gingold on SimCity, Maxis and the ambitious modeling of everything
Robin Sloan on His Epic Sci-Fi Novel Moonbound, Worldbuilding, and AI
Introducing: The Orthogonal Bet