The Origins Podcast

What's New in Science, Sabine Hossenfelder & Lawrence Krauss:

I think there's a lot of confusion about you know just you know quantum what what can quantum actually do and so I thought it would it's a good example to explain just what's reality and what's fiction.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION

Software brain is powerful stuff. It's a way of thinking that basically created our modern world. But software thinking has also been turbocharged by AI in a way that I think helps explain the enormous gap between how excited the tech industry is about the technology and how regular people are growing to dislike it more and more over time.

TED Radio Hour

Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

Socrates, by asking them questions, by teaching them philosophy, helped them realize they had a lot more options than they might have believed they had based on who was in power.

Hidden Brain

How to Change the World

Does power truly flow from the barrel of a gun? Pop culture and conventional history often teach us that violence is the most effective way to produce change. But is that common assumption actually true?

Daily Stoic

A Month of the BEST Lessons from Marcus Aurelius

You always have the power to have no opinion. Things are not asking to be judged by you. Don't turn this into something. The fewer opinions you have, the fewer judgments you make, the more you're able to just leave things as they are, the happier you will be, the more productive you will be, the more focused you will be, and the easier you will be to get along with.

TED

Is Luck Random — or Can You Cultivate It? | Christian Busch | TED

Zemblanity is when something unlucky, unwanted or undesired happens by design because it's already built in. It seems unexpected and like bad luck, but in hindsight it was to be expected and avoidable.

Fresh Air

Humorist Annabelle Gurwitch faces stage 4 cancer, finds ‘unexpected joys’

I felt like it was a story I could understand. And it was a way I could feel kind towards myself. The language of battling and fighting made me also feel at war with my own body, which I don't find helpful.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Alan Waxman - Private Credit and the Modern Financial System - [Invest Like the Best, EP.466]

Alan thinks about the financial system the way a historian would, studying the incentives, guardrails, and market structure that determine how things play out.

TED Radio Hour

Could AI help us, not replace us?

I think the purpose of AI is to empower humans with machine intelligence. As machines get smarter, we get smarter.

Semafor

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on the NFL's Streaming Push, Iran Coverage, and Media M&A

You're trying to see where is the market going rather than taking a very static snapshot of where it is today.

The a16z Show

Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent Breakthroughs

the messy reality of 8 billion people means both AI utopians and doomers are too optimistic about the pace of change

Daily Stoic

I explained Stoicism to the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks

The stoics believe that there was really no such thing as obstacles. There was only opportunities. Right? This thing is presenting you an opportunity to do something.

Daily Stoic

Stoic lessons from baseball

The obstacle is the way. Right? Everything is a chance for excellence. That's what the Stoics mean when they say the obstacle is the way.

TED Radio Hour

How does your brain perceive the world?

Our minds are black boxes to each other. I think if we actually switched consciousnesses, if we had like a Freaky Friday situation, initially we'd be totally lost in the wilderness.

TED Radio Hour

How does your brain perceive the world?

It puts us into confrontation with the fact that two minds can perceive the same reality entirely differently.

TED Radio Hour

How does your brain perceive the world?

Our minds are black boxes to each other. I think if we actually switched consciousnesses, if we had, like, a Freaky Friday situation, initially we'd be totally lost in the wilderness.

The a16z Show

What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado

what's actually required for AGI: the ability to keep learning after training and the move from pattern matching to understanding cause and effect.

Compound Interest

Bilt’s Ankur Jain On Solving The ‘Four-Banana Problem’ And Gamifying How, And Where, We Live

Housing services, which is rent, mortgages, utilities, is like 12% of the economy. Talking about, you can think about that like a $3 trillion a year subscription fee for living.

Book of the Day

To understand consciousness, Michael Pollan looked at plants, AI and himself

Consciousness is kind of how we do sentience. For animals like us, we need a much more elaborate sentience. We need the ability, say, to imagine what's going on so that we can have counterfactuals.

Book of the Day

To understand consciousness, Michael Pollan looked at plants, AI and himself

Sensience is kind of the base default case of having a certain awareness of your environment and a sense of the changes taking place in your environment and whether they're good for you or bad for you and then the ability to move toward the positive and away from the negative. Consciousness is kind of how we do sensience.

The Business of Tech

AI’s Kiwi gatekeeper inside Microsoft

if this can transform how architects are imagining buildings, imagine how we can transform every industry.

TED Radio Hour

Getting what you want: A guide to negotiating

I came out of that honeymoon realizing I had learned totally the wrong idea about negotiation. I was, first of all, a lawyer who'd been primed to think that negotiating meant competing, full stop. So you're out to win. And maybe even more than that, you're out for somebody else to lose.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Prediction markets want to be the news

One thing about economists is that they tend to discover 50 years later stuff that psychologists and sociologists have already known the whole time.

Daily Stoic

How to Reset Your Life (According to the Stoics)

It's not about now. It's not about what's happening now. It's not about what it's taking out of you now. It's about what it's giving you. Right? Before it happened, you were scared. Before it happened, you were sheltered. Before it happened, you were soft. Before it happened, you were dependent. You were all these things and more. But after, right, after the breakup, after the bankruptcy, after the pandemic, after those rough couple years, after things didn't go your way, well, now you're something different. Now you're something new. You are more. You are stronger. You are braver.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

John Arnold - China, Energy Markets and Fixing America's Systems - [Invest Like the Best, EP.461]

cultivating the best seat in your industry – the seat with the best perspective, the most information, the best systems