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.
#472 – Terence Tao: Hardest Problems in Mathematics, Physics & the Future of AI
- Terrence Tao discussed the Cay problem, which involves finding the minimum area needed to turn a needle around in a plane, and its surprising connections to diverse areas like PDEs, number theory, and wave propagation.
- Tao explored the Navier-Stokes equations, a fluid dynamics model, and his approach to engineering a "blow up" solution by selectively turning off interactions, thereby creating an obstruction to proving global regularity.
- Tao detailed the potential role of AI in mathematics, including its use in proof assistants like Lean, while emphasizing the critical need for AI to develop a "sense of smell" to distinguish fruitful strategies from dead ends in mathematical problem-solving.