Podcast for Monthly Roundup #38: January 2026.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:10 - California In Crisis

* 04:26 - Bad News

* 05:34 - Opportunity Knocks

* 06:48 - Government Working

* 12:20 - The Efficient Market Hypothesis Has Thoughts

* 13:44 - No All That Money Doesn’t Go To Pay Interest

* 16:58 - While I Cannot Condone This

* 18:31 - Burnout

* 21:21 - Good News, Everyone

* 30:51 - Good Advice

* 32:08 - For Your Entertainment

* 41:24 - Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game

* 41:33 - Sports Go Sports

* 42:26 - Antisocial Media

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Podcast episode for AI #151: While Claude Coworks.

* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:00:53 - Table of Contents

* 00:03:20 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 00:06:23 - Huh, Upgrades

* 00:09:37 - Comparative Advantage

* 00:10:13 - Overcoming Bias

* 00:12:31 - Choose Your Fighter

* 00:13:41 - Get My Agent On The Line

* 00:14:53 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 00:17:29 - Fun With Media Generation

* 00:21:10 - A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

* 00:22:51 - They Took Our Jobs

* 00:26:18 - Autonomous Killer Robots

* 00:29:19 - Get Involved

* 00:29:56 - Introducing

* 00:33:09 - In Other AI News

* 00:35:01 - Show Me the Money

* 00:36:12 - Quiet Speculations

* 00:39:17 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 00:41:47 - China Proposes New Regulations On AI

* 00:46:31 - Chip City

* 00:50:23 - The Week in Audio

* 00:54:33 - Ghost in a Jar

* 00:55:50 - Rhetorical Innovation

* 01:06:08 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 01:06:28 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

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Podcast episode for When Will They Take Our Jobs?

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:37 - Normality Is Magic

* 03:20 - Welcome To The Cyborg Era

* 06:32 - The Cyborg Era Will End Within Our Lifetimes

* 08:18 - Transitional Unemployment In The Cyborg Era Will Be High

* 09:27 - Congratulations, Many Of You Are Literally A Human

* 10:11 - You’ve Got Taste

* 12:18 - The Revolution of Rising AI Capabilities

* 12:43 - The Revolution of Rising Expectations

* 13:15 - Proceed With Caution

* 14:00 - The Ostrich Take

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I have also converted Séb’s original post:

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Podcast episode for Claude Coworks

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 02:11 - Early Takes

* 05:24 - Minimum Viable Product

* 06:34 - Maximum Viable Product

* 07:43 - Backup Your Directory

* 08:04 - Meanwhile In Claude Code News

* 15:25 - You Are The Bottleneck

* 17:40 - Claude Code Upgrades

* 18:57 - Oh No

* 19:57 - I’m In Danger

* 20:29 - In The Beginning Was The Command Line

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Podcast episode for Dating Roundup #10: Gendered Expectations.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:11 - You’re Single Because Your Emotions Gave Her The Ick

* 05:16 - You Are Still Single Because You Don’t Know When To Show Emotions

* 08:19 - You’re Single Because You Don’t Have Enough Gendered Energy

* 09:49 - You’re Single And I Have To Praise You Like I Should

* 12:30 - You’re Single Because You Guessed Wrong On Paying For The Date

* 15:20 - You’re Single But Not Because You Make Too Much Money

* 16:51 - You’re Single Because You Gave Someone A Ride

* 19:21 - You’re Single Because You Left The Price Tag On But It’s For The Best

* 21:25 - You’re Single So You At Least Get To Keep Your Upgrade

* 22:54 - You’re Single Because You Tried To Problem Solve

* 24:46 - You’re Single Because You Were Actually A Crazy Stalker

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Podcast episode for Claude Codes.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:37 - Hype!

* 06:18 - My Own Experiences

* 11:53 - Now With More Recursive Self Improvement

* 13:14 - A Market Of One

* 13:51 - Some Examples Of People Using Claude Code Recently

* 20:33 - Dealing With Context Limits

* 21:18 - The Basic Claude Code Setup

* 23:31 - Random Claude Code Extension Examples I’ve Seen Recently

* 25:27 - Skilling Up

* 32:05 - Reasons Not To Get Overexcited

* 38:18 - Get Pretty Excited

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Podcast episode for AI #150: While Claude Codes.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 00:41 - Table of Contents

* 03:02 - Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

* 03:35 - Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

* 04:09 - Language Models Have All The Fun

* 05:08 - Huh, Upgrades

* 05:47 - On Your Marks

* 06:18 - Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

* 09:50 - Fun With Media Generation

* 10:04 - You Drive Me Crazy

* 12:11 - They Took Our Jobs

* 15:45 - Get Involved

* 16:10 - Introducing

* 18:48 - In Other AI News

* 20:41 - Show Me the Money

* 22:34 - Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

* 23:40 - Quiet Speculations

* 26:46 - The Quest for Sane Regulations

* 30:05 - AGI and Taxation

* 34:22 - Chip City

* 34:38 - The Week in Audio

* 34:44 - Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

* 36:09 - People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

* 37:23 - The Lighter Side

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Podcast episode for Advancements In Self-Driving Cars.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:02 - Going Down The Highway

* 01:29 - Looking For Adventure

* 02:35 - And Whatever Comes Our Way

* 05:33 - It’s Coming

* 06:09 - Who Stands In The Way

* 08:42 - My One Weakness

* 15:49 - Cruise Control

* 18:12 - Growth Rates

* 19:26 - The Competition

* 20:39 - They Took Our Jobs

* 22:03 - Bikers As Winners

* 22:33 - The Elderly As Big Winners

* 25:36 - Save The Cat

* 28:39 - It’s Going To Be The Future Soon

* 30:25 - In-Context Old Man Yells At Self-Driving Car

* 31:16 - The Safety Case

* 33:21 - Keep It Classy

* 33:46 - The Lighter Side

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Podcast episode for Fertility Roundup #6: The Art of More Dakka.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:03 - Selection

* 02:21 - Surrogacy

* 02:45 - IVF

* 07:50 - Technological Versus Social Solutions

* 09:17 - Dakka

* 10:46 - All The Dakka

* 12:26 - Insufficient Dakka Works Insufficiently

* 14:41 - The Effectiveness of Dakka

* 18:00 - The Wrong Dakka

* 19:04 - Dakka Does Not Disproportionally Motivate The Poor

* 21:46 - Is That a Lot?

* 25:47 - Alternative Dakka

* 26:54 - The Housing Theory of Everything Is Undefeated

* 36:33 - Happiness

* 37:39 - Negative Dakka

* 39:09 - Mother’s Day

* 40:02 - Status

* 44:00 - Hungary

* 46:58 - Audio

* 47:01 - NatalCon

* 47:24 - Housing Discrimination

* 47:57 - Your Own Quest

* 50:07 - Hope

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Podcast episode for Dos Capital.

* 00:00 - Introduction

* 01:04 - What Trammell and Patel Are Centrally Claiming As A Default Outcome

* 03:28 - Does The Above Conclusion Follow From The Above Premises?

* 03:40 - Sounds Like This Is Not Our Main Problem In This Scenario?

* 08:01 - To Be Clear This Scenario Doesn’t Make Sense

* 14:37 - Ad Argumento

* 15:31 - The Baseline Scenario

* 17:31 - Would We Have An Inequality Problem?

* 22:12 - No You Can’t Simply Let Markets Handle Everything

* 23:43 - Proposed Solutions

* 27:36 - Wealth Taxes Today Are Grade-A Stupid

* 30:23 - Tyler Cowen Responds With Econ Equations

* 32:36 - Brian Albrecht Responds With More Equations

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