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“So the first is Kristan Temme from IBM Quantum. Kristan is known for a bunch of quantum computing things like error correction and then also of course, quantum machine learning.”
“Then we have Ewin Tang. So Ewin has a very interesting background as well. She enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin at the age of 14.”
“Then we have Aram Harrow from MIT. And Aram of course is also very very well known in quantum information theory, quantum computing, for those of you who attended the summer school and just are famili…”
“And last but not least, we have Maria Schuld from Xanadu. And Maria I think if you Google anything, quantum machine learning it will either be her work or it will either heavily site her works.”
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“I started following people who were all the way in the weeds, like people who uh ran nonprofits like Stop Crime SF.”
“But, you know, now I'm on the board of um Acts 17, which is uh sort of the nonprofit that brought Peter Teal and Pat Gellzinger onto the stage.”
“There's a uh an analyst I follow uh Eric Seufort who often says that everything is an ad network and if you have hundreds of millions of people”
“people like Philip Aong or Eric Buffson”
“So I think uh robotics one of the oldest field as long as AI itself existed and the reason that robotics is so hard ähm is because the Moravex paradox. So what this paradox says is the things that are…”
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“I guess in his part-time uh time that he's got available, shockingly, he also leads the Juno nominated band Good Kid, and their debut album's coming out in April. So, I'm going to keep an eye out for …”
“A conversation with Randall Stutman, founder of @AdmiredLeaders”
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“We're not ready, said Julie Bush, co-founder of the defense tech firm Valinor Enterprises and a former Palunteer Technologies executive, uh, who's been on the show.”
“Yeah. So pull pull up this chart from Andrew Curran. This is from the Wall Street Journal piece. Uh projected open anthropic model training spend for the remainder of this decade in billions.”
“A new survey of uh 750 chief financial officers found that AI had essentially no negative employment effect in 2025. Uh but data show employers are increasingly hiring for AI talent. In 2023, AI relat…”
“Sam Brona from Better Money. Sam, how you doing?”
“Up next, we have uh John Slotkin from Geisinger to revisit the story of the $1 billion on one person startup.”
“as the last speaker they had Richard Feman. Okay. It's a very famous >> also a Nobel Prize Nobel Prize winner really creative uh person >> and you know actually one of my personal heroes so just becau…”
“Um, Bill Phillips, who's a Nobel Prize winner, I I think 97, I mean, is is even more so than I am on this,”
“That's what my friend Naval Ravakan says. He's one of the most legended angel investors and I think one of the best startup philosophers.”
“His name is uh Pierre Boudier. Uh he's a he's a French researcher so we are researchers. He's been doing AI for for a very very long time. And he was one of the pioneers on uh AI curiosity, like artif…”
“Here's Alan Watts turning the spotlight back on us. To be present is to stop chasing the future and to stop dragging the past behind you.”
“Now on to today's guests Robert scoble who writes as scobilizer on Twitter is a long time Silicon Valley technology Explorer and connector a futurist who's met so many technology Legends in their Prim…”
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“I have uh Annie Duke and Gary Vee are my two favorite episodes two amazing episodes”
“I have uh Annie Duke and Gary Vee are my two favorite episodes two amazing episodes”
“So this is an application I wrote for a workshop that we do uh in the San Francisco Bay area with the Pyantic AI team.”
“we read everything from like game of thrones to orson scott card you name it”
“I have 35,000 people all categorized on X in the AI space. I have 7,400 companies on X. If you're not on X and following my list, you're doing yourself harm because you're not understanding this indus…”
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“I read everything that you could read. And then not only that, but I started studying music, like really studying music.”
“Like I studied Andrew Luke Oldm, who was the 17-year-old genius that discovered the Rolling Stones.”
“Tim Ferriss (@tferriss)”
“I think for me it's like anything by Richard Sutton. I think that was like my introduction to reinforcement learning.”
“I think you should bring him in as like a as someone who breaks the models for red team.”
“Looking forward to it @garrytan @ycombinator - thanks for inviting me!”
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“I want to um play a little sound from Dr. Becky. Do you know who Dr. Becky is? Okay. Well, Dr. Becky said something on this. I just interviewed her like last week and she had a thought on this.”
“And this is according to Gupta here, which if you don't follow, you definitely should.”
“Now the funny thing about the Turbo Quant is that folks like Unsloth and others have been actually doing these same compression algorithms.”
“I really mean where you start building in public and you encourage your employees to build in public and grow their social followings and really reach your customer through your own team's voices. I t…”
“If I bring on someone who I know I'm going to agree with, but who just knows much more about certain details than I do, I bring on someone like Anne Applebaum, right, who can just give me the view fro…”
“I mean like I'm I'm going to talk to someone like Hassan Would that be fun? But maybe not really. I mean, it just I I don't think I don't think anyone should be listening to this guy, right?”
“I mean, so I'm gonna talk to Ben Shapiro. I I anticipate that being a a potentially uh bad conversation, at least on for half of it.”
“Would I talk to Candace Owens? I I don't don't think so. I mean, she's got an even larger audience, but she's a total lunatic, right?”
“I mean apart from I mean I you know I could I could approach it the way I approached the um the conversation with Doug Wilson, you know, the pastor who I knew just how far out he was as a as a you kno…”
“I you know, my conversation with Ross Dou that right like we did not agree that was had the quality of a debate about religion. I think he's more of a a religious extremist than people people apprecia…”
“I mean, you know, the monk debates, I I think I think it was they asked me to to um debate Tucker Carlson and I was I was surprised to find myself saying yes without any reservation really because Tuc…”
“Rogan has said he doesn't want to talk to you publicly until you've debated Brett Weinstein. Is that something you consider doing? Oh, well, no. I mean, for the for the same reasons I wouldn't debate …”
“make sure to follow me on socials, Cameron Cowan, on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, places like that. Um, those are all gonna be the best places to find me.”
“Definitely look him up. Yes, the name is MOD as you heard.”
“people can learn all sorts of stuff about 168 intermittent fasting from Rhonda Patrick and she's had a number of scientists on her podcast.”
“There's also a guy I recommend with some reservation, but Martin Birkin who really popularized to his credit 168”
“If you want to check out his comedy, he's been on the podcast, too.”
“I hope you enjoy Coyote as much as I and the little magic elves at Exploring Kittens liked making this game.”
“By the way, he's just a phenomenal cardiovascular exercise physiologist. I mean, he trained with the biggest giants out there.”
“I would encourage people to listen to Chris Palmer who I kind of put on your radar.”
“Well, we need to systematically understand this and and Morton really gets a lot of credit for for this because we we figured out how to do it.”
“I'll just say briefly, people need to read it, but the the entire founding story of Led Zeppelin is kind of when you look at the number of things that had to go right.”
“The decade I spent with Seoia Capital was formation, you know, period for me. And it wasn't easy period. I couldn't do what I'm doing today without um learning from from um Douglon and Michael Morit…”
“In our second conversation, we're going to start to land the plane shortly, but I was looking at a reference to the good to great acknowledgements. M >> uh this was also something that I think you may…”
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“People should check out Michael Leven tufts and some of the crazy stuff he's able to do.”
“I did this deep dive with someone named Kevin Tracy who's very credible scientist, very widely cited, helped discover and explore a lot related to TNF alpha and all sorts of things.”
“If people have never seen something called Abra Hangs, so like Abraham, but Abra Hangs, go on YouTube, find this Swedish rock climber named Emil Abrahen. So Abraham Sun, S SO N. He is a monster.”
“And my latest discovery there is an a really fascinating scientist named Dr. Francisco Gonzalez Lima who's at UT Austin.”
“for me X is the best way to be best place to be an AI haha but I I can't follow 25,000 people anywhere else ... come and look at my profile scobalizer and uh go check out the lists”
“I did a podcast with Dr. Tommy Wood recently. Fascinating guy. People should listen to that episode.”
“I want to give a shout out to Colin Samir, two of the best interviewers out there in my opinion, especially when it comes to creator economy and the nuts and bolts of making things in this modern era.…”
“If you're looking for someone who seems to be the Nostradamus of AI, you should read up on Leopold Ashin Brena.”
“And then listen to my podcast with Susan Garrett. Susan Garrett g a r e t is impressive because she has won I want to say I don't know 5 to 10 national dog agility championships”
“And this is where they actually say that yes, they agree that it could be possible to bring people back, you know, and use the metaverse to bring people back from the dead virtually. So, you have to u…”
“Before we begin, I want to point you to Nick Pfeiffer and Professor Glenn Chapman at Simon Frasier University. Their work in the late 1990s and early 2000s really set the tone for the existing space-b…”
“Also, quick shout out to Don Misetti. You're the one who inspired me for making this.”
“I would recommend everyone following him on LinkedIn and Twitter. Some really good insights that I've personally learned a lot from.”
“I'm going to give a shout out to Northwest Arkansas Harm Reduction cuz I volunteered a little bit for them.”
“Oliver Darcy continues to do really good reporting on her. Amazing.”
“Make sure you're following Brendan on Tik Tok by the way. Brendan Roth one because he's doing a lot of fun new content. He's trolling me quite a bit. So, if you're there for that, you'll enjoy it.”
“And one interesting concept that I recently heard, so there's this um therapist online um healthy gamer GG um I'm forgetting his actual name, but very huge. I'm sure a lot of people know about him.”
“I mean, we're born with morality according to, you know, Paul Bloom's work.”
“If I develop trust in the product, like Chloe versus History so far seems like they're trying to kind of give you a sense for the world.”
“By the way, Euchin Jin, great follow. Highly recommended. As he's saying here, AI is quietly erasing copyright right now. Seems like AI developed this functionality for people, gives us the ability to…”
“Wendy talk, I followed Wendy. Like you know, I see how she, you know, she was a fan of it and had her she was a fan of it and had her opinions about things, but she wasn't friendly with people.”
“Sakari is the Steve Jobs of this industry. He's the He has a totally different thinking in his design. He has created the day boat category”
“I highly recommend people go check out your YouTube channel where you make videos all the time about what's going on in the world...economic issues, political issues, the Iran war”
“There's a guy called Simon Machau, whom I recommend you get in touch with as well. And Simon is an engineer who claims that we simply don't have the physical minerals necessary to support a completely…”