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Teaser ... Steve’s new book, Big Math: The Hidden Codes that Run Our World ... What is “big math”? And why do we need it? ... The key to the neural network’s power ... AI’s black box problem ... Is human insight going extinct? ... Could quantum computing settle quantum questions? ... How math has continually changed humanity ... Insight via 100 ants ... The intersecting origins of network theory and a jazz legend ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Bob and Danny get experimental ... Danny’s new(ish) book, Imperialist Realism ... Is US imperialism natural? ... America vs other empires ... The three features of imperialist realism ... When did US foreign policy turn cynical? ... Imperialist realism: the video game ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Scott’s diverse portfolio of expertise ... Is AI hastening the quantum computing revolution? ... Interpreting the many-worlds interpretation ... Scott tries to make quantum physics coherent ... Many-worlds vs Bohmian mechanics ... Could quantum computing settle quantum questions? ... The Y2K of quantum computing ... Are Bitcoin’s days numbered? ... Why AI scares Scott more than quantum computing ... What kind of AI pause is practical? ... The AI-China question(s) ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Nonzero Doom returns ... A foom in slow motion ... Will Google’s Genie 4 lure us into the Matrix? ... Liron’s bull case for Google stock ... Does Google have big-company disease? ... Could a slowdown actually help Anthropic and OpenAI? ... Was OpenAI’s “pause” just PR? ... Social science judgment day is coming ... Why even AI’s upsides could tear society apart ... Does OpenAI’s alignment approach improve on Asimov? ... Sam and Satya pivot on alignment ... Crypto and the AI hacking threat ... Could AI crack the math behind encryption? ... Liron’s $1,000-a-day AI coding habit ... Explaining the missing productivity boost ... Does Anthropic’s S-1 sink the AI bubble thesis? ...

Teaser ... Paul attains potato hegemony ... Bob’s book: Gateway drug to AI doomerism? ... Nathan Fielder’s view of Elizabeth Holmes (via Paul) ... Bob TORCHES Fielder ... Are art and artist really separable? ... What Trump and Musk say about our times ... Heading to Overtime ...

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Overtime teaser ... Boris’s background and new book, Our Planetary Mirror ... The AI vibe shift in Washington ... Three ways of seeing the planet—and us ... Resurveying the Gaia “hypothesis” ... Dawkins’s case against Gaia ... Is humanity outgrowing its planetary parent? ... The noosphere: Teilhard vs Vernadsky ... Can we reason our way to global solidarity? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Connor’s role with ControlAI ... The AI vibe shift in Washington ... How does ControlAI want to control AI? ... Dario decoded ... Are AI safety evals worth much? ... Why Silicon Valley libertarians can’t escape the state ... On the redefinition of superintelligence and alignment ... Is the China AI race a cover story? ... Connor: What really drives Dario is… ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Is Paul pro-gooey-pod? ... Steven Pinker vs Scott Alexander on AI ... A review of AI peer reviewers ... Tipping tips ... The promise and perils of AI companions ... Are mathematicians getting mogged by AI? ... Paul critiques Jon Haidt’s critique of social media ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Jeremie’s podcast and prescient AI report ... Is scale still (mostly) all you need? ... Jeremie: We’re way past “stochastic parrots” ... Inside the early AI safety ecosystem ... What Yudkowsky got less wrong than most ... Why capability is outpacing alignment ... Were Altman’s fears ever sincere? ... Would pausing AI crash the economy? ... Overtime preview: Debating China ...