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E141: The Bronze Age Collapse and History's Selective Memory

E140: Why Industrial Revolutions Stall

E139: America’s Tech Strategy w/ Qasar Younis, Sen. Jack Reed, and Josh Wolfe

E138: Palantir CEO Alex Karp & Rep. Ritchie Torres on Innovation & The West | Hill and Valley Forum 2024

E137: AI Safety vs Speed: Helen Toner Discusses OpenAI Board Experience, Regulatory Approaches, and Military AI [The Cognitive Revolution]

E136: Trump V2: Tariffs, American Dynamism, Higher Ed | Byrne Hobart

E135: The Problem With Reserve Currencies and Switching to Crypto w/ Lyn Alden [From the Archives]

E134: Atheism’s Decline, Consciousness, and The New Right w/ Ross Douthat

E133: China’s Energy Problem w/ Samo Burja

E132: AI Managers, US vs China Analysis, and AI Art w/ Byrne Hobart

E131: Abundance Agenda, The New Right, and 2008 Retrospective w/ Noah Smith

E130: Elon Musk’s Network Effects and Checking in on Chinese AI w/ Byrne Hobart

E129: Dark Triad, Romantic Partner Selection, and Dating Advice w/ Rob Henderson

E128: US-Europe Relations, How Japan Can Strengthen The Yen, and Predicting AI’s Growth Effects w/ Noah Smith

E127: The Tech Right and How The Left Can Fix Itself w/ Jon Askonas

E126: Data Center Economics and AI Energy Requirements w/ Patrick McKenzie and Azeem Azhar

E125: Palantir’s Politics, Elon’s Approach to DOGE, and AI’s Effects on Writing w/ Byrne Hobart

E124: How to Have A Philosophical Marriage w/ Agnes Callard and Arnold Brooks

E123: Trump & The Game of Populism w/ Samo Burja

E122: Victor Davis Hanson on What Trump Thinks of Zelensky and Predicting Geopolitics

E121: Kevin Kelly on What Makes Us Human in an AI World

E120: Why Europe Matters for America’s Future w/ Samo Burja

E119: Free Trade, AI Integration, and Shopify Q4 Results w/ Shopify President Harley Finkelstein

E118: Ending Woke, Why Elon Wins, and A Return to Innovation w/ Marc Andreessen [Moment of Zen repost]

E117: The Future of Martian & Interplanetary Societies w/ Samo Burja

E116: Stuck Academia, US vs China, and Why Startups Work

E115: New Tariff Implications, DeepSeek and Open Source Analysis, and Meta’s Big Bets w/ Byrne Hobart

E114: Tyler Cowen on Legacy, Twitter + Harvard, and Fertility Decline [Upstream Archive]

E113: Reflections on Yarvin, Why the Right is Stuck, and Startups as Dictatorships w/ Samo Burja

E112: Election Update, Tech’s Political Shift, and America’s Stuck GDP | This Won’t Last

E111: Samo Burja & Auren Hoffman on the Decline of Fertility Rates and Institutional Trust

E110: Crypto Debanking: What Really Happened | Patrick McKenzie

E109: Dating & Relationships Deep Dive w/ Noah Smith and Katherine Dee (Default Friend)

E108: Should AI have Rights? With Nathan Labenz and Yeshua God, Robopsychologist

E107: How Desalination Could Create New Superpowers | Samo Burja

E106: The Man Who Wrote the Book on NVIDIA

E104: AI Meets Geopolitics w/ Samo Burja and Nathan Labenz

E103: Byrne Hobart on What The First AI Agents Will Do + China, Google Analysis

E102: America’s Culture of Winning w/ Alex Karp and Jacob Helberg

E101: Wokeism & Class w/ David Sacks, Trump’s AI Czar [Upstream Archive]

E100: Marc Andreessen: How 2016 Broke My Mental Model of the World

E99: This Era’s Inflection Points with Byrne Hobart | DOGE, Elon, OpenAI

E98: Solving America’s Problems with Joe Lonsdale

E97: Combining Biology and AI w/ Michael Levin and Dr. Leo Pio Lopez

E96: Rudyard Lynch and Samo Burja Talk The Left’s Future and Problems with Modernity

E95: Trump’s New Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering on Growing Uber | Emil Michael on Growing Uber | Emil Michael

E94: Best of: AGI | Dario Amodei / Balaji Srinivasan / Marc Andreessen / Samo Burja / Michael Levin

E93: How Trump and Elon Could Rebuild the US Government

E92: Curtis Yarvin’s Pre-Election Advice to Elon Musk

E91: Why We Do Philosophy w/ Agnes Callard

E90: Elites, Institutions, and Trump with Richard Hanania

E89: Economics as a Science w/ Noah Smith

E88: The Fertility Apocalypse w/ Samo Burja

E87: Embodied Minds and Cognitive Agents with Dr. Michael Levin

E86: Techno-capitalism with Bryan Johnson

E85: Analyzing Everything with Byrne Hobart and Patrick McKenzie

E84: Let’s Fix Social Media with Jonathan Haidt

E83: How Patty McCord Built Netflix’s Culture

E82: America’s Future with Palmer Luckey

E81: Status, Sacred, and Neglected Truths with Robin Hanson

E80: Financial Plumbing with Patrick McKenzie and Erik Torenberg

E79: How Civilizations Cycle & Collapse | Samo Burja and Rudyard Lynch

E78: Fertility, Healthy Humans, and Ending Genetic Disease w/ Noor Siddiqui, CEO of Orchid

E77: Academic Fraud & the Spiritual Quest for Truth | Live Players w/ Samo Burja and Ben Landau-Taylor

E76: "The CEO is Always Responsible” | This Won’t Last w/ Logan Bartlett, Zach Weinberg, Kevin Ryan, and Keith Rabois

E75: The Future of AI-Enabled Companies with Omar Shams, CEO of Mutable AI

E74: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Talks Scaling Laws, AI Arms Races, and Radical Abundance

E73: Brian Armstrong on Crypto in 2024, Politics, and Economic Freedom

E72: Eoghan McCabe on San Francisco, Tech Leadership, and Optimistic Media

E71: Marc Andreessen on Higher Education and Tech Culture

E70: Katherine Boyle on Religion, Journalism, and Polarization

E69: Balaji Srinivasan on the Rise of the Tech Counter Elites

E68: Tyler Cowen on Talent, the Importance of Stamina, and Predicting Success

E67: A Deep Dive on René Girard with David Gornoski

E66: Noah Smith on 2024 Election Strategy, American Civil Service, and Cash Benefits

E65: Bret Weinstein on Evolutionary Biology, Markets, Moral Progress, and More

E64: Richard Hanania on Trump's Genius, Antisemitism, and Election Predictions

E63: Balaji Srinivasan and Glen Weyl on Decentralized Governance, Politics, and History

E62: Mike Solana on Thinking Freely and What Tech Means for Culture

E61: Noah Smith on Wokeness, Right Wing Muckrakers, and Class vs Identity

E60: AI in the Techno-Economic War with China with Vinod Khosla, Todd Young, and Jacob Helberg

E59: Bryan Caplan on Housing Regulation, Fertility, and Crime

E58: Jonathan Haidt on Finally Fixing Social Media and Picking All the Cherries

E57: Noah Smith Analyzes Economies: USA, China, Japan, Russia, India, Korea, & More

E56: Brian Chau on Spreading Informed AI Optimism

E55: Why China's Universities Will Become Harvard

E54: Naval Ravikant and Balaji Srinivasan on Why History Points to Crypto

E53: Nathan Labenz and Noah Smith on What AI Actually Means for the Economy

E52: David Friedman on Anarcho-Capitalism, Utilitarianism, and Inequality

E51: How We Build More Housing with Brad Hargreaves & Noah Smith

E50: Alex Blania on Worldcoin, AGI, and Future Predictions

E49: The Legacy of Effective Altruism with Igor Kurganov

E48: Liron Shapira on the Case for Pausing AI

E47: Rob Henderson on Life in Foster Care, Academia, and Beyond

E46: Lyn Alden on How Money Works

E45: Bayeslord and Nadia Asparouhova on Effective Accelerationism

E44: Tyler Cowen on Harvard, the GOAT Economist, and Ending Stagnation

E43: Richard Hanania on Wokeness, Israel-Palestine, and the Mythos of the Modern Right

E42: Erik Torenberg on the Evolution of Media

E41: Steve Hsu on the Future of Everything