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“What's involved there? What drove you? Uh curiosity um about the nature of the universe.”
“why do you think that RFK Jr is the best choice for the Democratic knee and the best the Democratic nominee and the best candidate in the field right now”
“Soumith Chintala will be the new CTO of Thinking Machines. He is a brilliant and seasoned leader who has made important contributions to the AI field for over a decade, and he’s been a major contribut…”
“Meet the CTO of @NousResearch. Maker of Hermes that is kicking OpenClaw’s behind. Live on X audio space on Wednesday at 1 p.m. Pacific here.”
“the most influential person in in media even though the the part of the media never talks about him because he's not part of them is without question joe rogan”
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“what's interesting about this is we're going to be using applied materials and the modern fabrication processes that they have which on 300 mm tools you know you can't get in China for example”
“And that's at Pat Flynn. And I'll offer some tips and show off some results from others during that process as well.”
“My mind immediately went to somebody who has been on the show before. Her personality is so easy to connect with. And her business model is one that I would want to have as well.”
“I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and opthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. And now for my discussion with Dr. Andy Galpin. Welcome, Dr. Professor Andy Galpin. There are o…”
“Don't miss the third season of Euphoria starring two-time Emmy winner Zendaya, premiering April 12th on HBO and HBO Max with new episodes every Sunday.”
“Tim Misny. He's like the most famous lawyer in Cleveland. And he's known for his eyebrow. So if you look at that photo. Let me go back. It's just the eyebrow. There's billboards throughout Cleveland o…”
“I’m thinking specifically of Julieta Venegas and Natalia Lafourcade—the latter, and this is in my book—wrote a song back in the year 2000, which is a hilarious reflection on her sister’s pregnancy, th…”
“I’m thinking specifically of Julieta Venegas and Natalia Lafourcade—the latter, and this is in my book—wrote a song back in the year 2000, which is a hilarious reflection on her sister’s pregnancy, th…”
“So uh uh there's a company called Fountain Life that uh created with Tony Robbins, Bob Hurry, Bill Cap, and we do a 200 gigabyte upload of you.”
“I would be in any trench w @Jason”
“So, if you'd like to follow some of my music, make sure to follow Abel James Bascom at Abel James on Instagram.”
“who is making it but I follow him on Twitter and I always see um the stuff that he's working on so I think it's my turn I term t-e-r-m-j-l um is is the package”
“on the fiction side I'm reading Roman gar who is a great French writer at the moment and everybody reads his book”
“connect with me on twitter at Lex Friedman spelled Fri D”
“now i i now want to quote richard feynman who is a colorful physicist in uh who worked in the mid to late 20th century”
“okay today I have the pleasure of speaking with Dario amodei who is the CEO of anthropic and I'm really excited about this one Dario thank you so much for coming on the podcast thanks for having me”
“A former Senate staff member recently told my friend Dexter Filkins, an incredible reporter at the New Yorker this, the last socialist systems in the world are Cuba and the Pentagon.”
“These are results from a study that we just did that my colleagues at Wharton just did with a a class that's fairly legendary on product design and development written by Carl erck who wrote literally…”
“hello everyone welcome to open AI Dev day I am Harry stebbings of 20 VC and I am very very excited to interview Sam ultman”
“I always have loved the most about YC is it encourages slightly implausible degrees of techno optimism and just a belief that like ah you can figure this out and you know in a world that I think is li…”
“people should i actually re-uploaded it because uh i i was so sad i never i never care about views or listens and so on so it's good that we're mentioning it uh please go there check out dan gable bec…”
“I mean he but I feel like and Tim Dylan does this really well as well is there's like a humor to it where you're almost taking down the powerful by not taking them seriously he's one of the best to li…”
“like this michael minna i think from harvard is uh people should go follow him on twitter or wherever he's been screaming about this like why the hell is fda getting in the way of this”
“there was a time when I went through um Nasim taleb's work for example and I found it very useful”
“THAT'S WHY WE'RE BREAKING DOWN SOME RECENT ANALYSIS FROM CNBC'S KELLY EVANS. SHE HAS HER FINGER ON THE PULSE AND WE'LL TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF IT. >> NO JARGON, JUST THE STUFF THAT MATTERS, RIGHT?”
“people like Chris Ola uh I really like his work and a lot of computational Neuroscience techniques I think could be brought to bear uh on uh analyzing these current systems we're building in fact I Tr…”
“there's a really great podcast interview with my former manager Frasier um who led product for both Chach BT and the API and he talked about how and again this was before I joined open AI but the mo g…”
“you look at sort of watch Star Wars and it's like R2D2 and see3 I love those guys”
“you look at sort of watch Star Wars and it's like R2D2 and see3 I love those guys”
“if you talk to Jake heler at case text he was one of the first people to actually get access to gp4 and then when he comes and speaks at the batch you guys should have him on the show he's actually …”
“I had helped start this company called Gro with a former coworker of yours Jonathan Ross”
“I really followed Charlamagne as the blueprint. Like I looked at Charlamagne, what he did with Wendy.”
“So uh uh there's a company called Fountain Life that uh created with Tony Robbins, Bob Hurry, Bill Cap, and we do a 200 gigabyte upload of you.”
“This conversation with Amjad, my recent one with New York Assembly member Alex Morris, and the series of episodes we did last year on SB1047 are all good examples of this.”
“I would say Mahmud Darwish is is the one that's like most transl translatable to English. He might have even written his his own English. So I recommend that.”
“So uh uh there's a company called Fountain Life that uh created with Tony Robbins, Bob Hurry, Bill Cap, and we do a 200 gigabyte upload of you.”
“Sean Carroll has a has a really really nice book called Something Deeply Hidden... they're all role models”
“her husband Steven Pinker who has also written amazing books that I could strongly recommend”
“our other friend Sky Dayton has been pushing really hard for the US government to do Advanced pilot training”
“you're going to love my full-length conversation with the one and only Alain de Botton from the School of Life right here. Go on.”
“Peter Thiel has this whole thing from Rene Gerard about how mimemetic desires are desires are picked up from other people.”
“there's a guy his name is Yannik and he does really cool He's a really cool guy He's like really funny maybe you link it in the in the show notes because I forget the exact name of the channel but he'…”
“That's him. Y that's him. Forest Jones, shout out to Forest. He's great. He does like these really fast-paced videos... he does a lot of cars”
“Anthony Rispo. That's it. Really, really smart guy... fascism rises as the overcorrection response to communism... very interesting thing”
“everybody watching or listening, please go on to X... search for Scobalizer or Robert Scobble and you'll find his feed. Uh definitely worthwhile if you haven't come across Robert.”
“I wouldn't look at Robert Scoville. I'd look at Trisha code. She has created a series of videos with AI of a character that's based on her... If you go to her ex account and watch some of her videos”
“Neil Ferguson is a really good guy by the way to read his writings on this he's historian who's quite quite good on this topic”
“there's a Twitter account there's this guy who goes by the name Pliny the Elder p l i n y the Elder on X and his he's an independent guy and uh he jailbreaks all the new AIs on the same day that they'…”
“Here's John Carmarmac, one of the legendary game engineers behind Doom and Quake, the first shooter games ever. We are our own besting team. And we should never allow anyone else to experience bugs or…”
“I think I would have dinner with Newton because he was like religious and super smart and just like talk about how he was in his age and why he's religious.”
“Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut) a revolutionary breakthrough if i've ever seen one”
“I guess there's the temptation to cargo cult Sam Altman or Roon, but if OpenAI really believed all lowercase was better, ChatGPT would use it!”
“I guess there's the temptation to cargo cult Sam Altman or Roon, but if OpenAI really believed all lowercase was better, ChatGPT would use it!”
“Here's journalist and PhD candidate, Samuel Earle, who is working in similar territory, but 39 years later. We asked him to comment: https://pressthink.org/j/rosen-archive/dissertation/network-effect/”
“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.”
“Yeah, you can follow me on regulatory Jason on X Jason Brett on LinkedIn. Also, there's my Forbes senior contributor articles, so you can see me on Forbes as well.”
“Yeah, you can follow me on regulatory Jason on X Jason Brett on LinkedIn. Also, there's my Forbes senior contributor articles, so you can see me on Forbes as well.”
“awesome style”
“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”
“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…”
“Love this - Neo's mind will be blown!🤯”
“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 …”
“Recommend @RuxandraTeslo, @PatrickHeizer for more.”
“Recommend @RuxandraTeslo, @PatrickHeizer for more.”
“I would say follow me on TikTok at Virginia A. Lee. Virginia A. Lee.”
“And that right there is a poem called familiar faces which is written by Jerry Alieri who was a soldier team and squad leader with team Catamount”
“- Jeremy Grantham (EP.493)”
“@galligator”
“You should talk to @jrfarr!”
“Also for us, check out joo.com and then on social media, I'm at Joo Willink”
“@alex_perplexity”
“Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) https://t.co/KSsgzpswVK”
“Definitely check out at Catucopia, C-A-T-U-C-O-P-I-A on YouTube and Instagram.”
“This one comes from Aditya Chakravarti, who runs the channel Aleph Not. It's a really nice channel if you're not familiar with it. He does a great job taking various higher level math topics and then …”
“Follow @googlegemma for the latest information.”
“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.”
“I I I do Rolling Stone Rolling Stones.”
“I do uh Depes Pesh Mode.”
“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.”
“I mean, I think Trump underestimated Iran's resilience. And that's the take of so many analysts, including Nate Swanson, who worked on the Iran portfolio in the Obama administration and early Trump ye…”
“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…”
“That also echoes what Carl Young says. Who looks outside dreams. Who looks inside awakes.”
“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…”
“There's a Teshi trucks band. Oh, sure. Wow. Tedeshi Trucks and what are they? Yeah, Tedeshi Trucks band.”
“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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“you should you should start watching an artist called tutu”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think you should bring him in as like a as someone who breaks the models for red team.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Who is the photographer that best defines that that subject right and i've picked one one photographer for each of the four revolutions that we're yeah we're going to cover here so iran 79 that the pe…”
“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…”
“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.”
“Rhonda Patrick also, you know, was texting with her at one point because I was listening to STEM talk, that podcast I mentioned, and I came across a scientist discussing something called eurolithn.”
“I did a podcast with Dr. Tommy Wood recently. Fascinating guy. People should listen to that episode.”
“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.”
“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”
“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”
“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…”
“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.”
“Also, quick shout out to Don Misetti. You're the one who inspired me for making this.”
“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.”
“Oliver Darcy continues to do really good reporting on her. Amazing.”
“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…”
“Cody Sanchez, a mutual friend of ours, she talks to people all the time about how to buy a baby boomer business and take it over and run it. So that's a great opportunity.”
“I think Peter Teal is correct to think deeply about Renee Gerard and this concept of the scapegoat because it is one of the few good theories I have for why human sacrifice seems to have been so preva…”
“I got from David Chapman who's a really interesting I think of him as a philosopher but he doesn't identify as a philosopher and he's written a lot of interesting stuff on sort of rationality”
“I'm mostly outsourcing my brain on what's going to happen in the cycle to Michael Nato. I think he's got a pretty good pulse on it. He's been right consistently.”
“we're going to focus on the work of a researcher named Francois Cholay. His core argument is that the way the industry defines artificial general intelligence or AGI is fundamentally missing the entir…”
“Go check him out. If you want to learn everything about hardware, he has uh has some awesome takes.”
“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…”
“Think twice before giving @GrowSF money — they might denounce you for it.”
“who's a good person to follow other than you of course on well if it's conversion copy specifically copy hackers is incredible Joanna weeb she's unreal in terms of learning”
“She's led a campaign to force them to try and change their products to protect children through her organisation, the Five Rights Foundation, as well as doing many other things, such as pushing throug…”
“And I would recommend listening to our interview with Fabio from Mindset Capital.”
“I really recommend the conversation I did with Nolan Williams.”
“Tell everybody where they can go to catch your live streams, your videos, where should they check out? I go live every Monday at noon Eastern time. So that would be like 9 a.m. Pacific. And the name o…”