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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineerin

Episodes

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This week's episode is based on a lecture Steve gave to an audience of theoretical physicists at Oxf

In collaboration with her husband Malcolm Collins, Simone is an author (The Pragmatist's Guide to Li

Katherine Dee is a writer, journalist, and internet historian.Steve and Katherine discuss:0:00 Intro

Marc Martinez is the director of Dream Big, a documentary about Gold's Gym and the golden age of bod

Gilles Saint-Paul is Professeur à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechniqu

Steve discusses the competition between Microsoft and Google, the competition between the U.S. and C

Steve discusses Large Language Model AIs such as ChatGPT. 0:00 How do LLMs work?10:22 Impact of Chat

Dominic Cummings is a major historical figure in UK politics. He helped save the Pound Sterling, led

Sahil Lavingia founded Gumroad at the age of 19 and built it into a leading digital commerce platfor

Geoffrey Miller is an American evolutionary psychologist, author, and a professor of psychology at t

Anna I. Krylov (Russian: Анна Игоревна Крылова) is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sou

Abdel Abdellaoui is Assistant Professor of Genetics in the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC,

Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Nor

Peter Byrne is an investigative reporter and science writer based in Northern California. His popula

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, a

Rob Henderson grew up in foster homes in California, joined the Air Force at 17, attended Yale on th

Professor Lyle Goldstein recently retired after 20 years of service on the faculty of the U.S. Naval

The guest for this episode is a recent graduate of Harvard College, now pursuing a STEM PhD at anoth

Richard Lowery is a professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texa

Tim Palmer is Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, and a Senior Fellow at the Oxford