Today's Top Episodes
AI Bubble, Inflation, and the Limits of Monetary Policy | Jason Furman
Is the AI boom a bubble waiting to burst? Dive into the economic forces shaping our future, from inflation to the limits of central banks.
James Tour: Super Humans, Genetic Engineering, Cloning, Lies of Evolution, and What Really Is Life?
A nanotechnology expert dares to question the very foundations of life, evolution, and genetic engineering. What if everything you thought you knew was wrong?
Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on AI Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security
Beyond the hype: discover the hidden war being waged to break and secure AI, and what it means for our future.
#262 Aliia Roza - Russian Sex Spy on Seduction Perfumes, Sexpionage and Honeypot Tradecraft
From seduction to defection: A former Russian sex spy reveals the dark art of 'honeypot' espionage and how it targets the powerful.
Everything is gambling now
Is every decision becoming a bet? Explore how 'prediction markets' are turning everything into a gamble, and what it means for our society.
The King of Chicago Trading Wants to Build a GPU Market Bigger Than Oil
- Don Wilson predicts that demand for GPUs will continue to rise, potentially exceeding the demand for crude oil within the next ten years, thus indicating that compute could become the world's largest commodity.
- Wilson's company, Compute Exchange, is working to create liquid markets for compute by creating indices (like the H100 index) to facilitate futures contracts, which would allow "NIO clouds" to hedge their GPU investments and reduce their cost of capital.
- Wilson believes that tokenization of traditional financial instruments is the future, and he predicts that in the next five years, all financial instruments will be on-chain to facilitate collateral management and 24/7 markets.