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.
LIMITLESS - Dwarkesh Patel: The Scaling Era of AI is Here
- The AI scaling era is characterized by exponentially increasing compute used to train AI models, a trend that is unsustainable due to energy and manufacturing limitations by 2028-2030.
- While the exact mechanisms remain unclear, the scaling of compute and data in AI models demonstrates a pattern similar to brain scaling in primates, leading to reasoning capabilities and proficiency in areas that humans find difficult, such as coding.
- Despite AI's advancements, a critical bottleneck in achieving AGI lies in its inability to learn continually and adapt dynamically on the job, hindering its capacity to fully replace human labor.