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I spoke to Pramit Bhattacharya an independent data journalist about India's statistical system. We talked about
I talked with Harry Law of the University of Cambridge and Google DeepMind about AI regulation
We talked about
I spoke with Derek Wong about the adaptive markets hypothesis, macro investing and investing in cryptocurrency markets
We talk about
I spoke to Adam Ozimek and Connor O'Brien from the Economic Innovation Group about the policy and politics of high skilled immigration in America. We talked about
I spoke with Devashish Dhar, the author of the excellent book India's Blind Spot which talks about India's urbanisation crisis and solutions to it. We talk about
and much more!
I interviewed one of the most interesting thinkers today, Tyler Cowen.
We talked about
And so much more!
I spoke to Rohit Krishnan the author of the blog Strange Loop Canon about why he is sceptical about the idea that AI will kill us all
We talked about
Why he’s sceptical of AI regulation proposals
Why AI “timelines” are not as meaningful as you think
AI deployment is harder than you think!
The value of incrementalism in AI policy
Why he thinks instrumental convergence is unlikely to happen
I spoke to Soham Sankaran who runs PopVax, an Indian mRNA vaccine company. Their goal is to build low-cost broadly-protective vaccines to protect against the entire sarbecovirus species. Read Soham's experience here (https://chronicles.popvax.com/p/three-meetings-and-six-million-funerals) as a complement to this episode. Also check out their jobs page (https://jobs.popvax.com/) for opportunities.
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I talked to Dwarkesh Patel of the Lunar Society Podcast about many topics. We talked about:
Why do AI researchers and rationalists disagree about existential risk?
What would happen if Robert Moses ran San Francisco?
Is localism overrated?
What does Effective Altruism get right and wrong?
Which politicians would he like to interview
I spoke to Trevor Chow about existential risks from AI and techniques to align artificial intelligence with human goals. Specifically we talked about
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