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 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.
This episode includes
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 talked to Faris Abdurrachman about Indonesia and it's nickel boom. We talked specifically about
I spoke to Kartik Akileswaran who runs Growth Teams - an initiative which helps build state capacity for economic growth in developing countries. We talked about
- Why implementation is a binding constraint for economic policy
- How industrial policy helps reduce information constraints for investors
- Underrated growth reforms
I talked to Anupam Manur, a professor of economics about India's trade policy before 1991. We talked about:
I spoke to Professor Richard Jones, about how science funding in the UK could improve. Some interesting questions we talked about are
I talked to Tiago Santos, a diplomat, about his book Why Not Parliamentarism. Tiago and I explore some questions here
I talked to Amit Varma who runs one of my favourite podcasts - The Seen and the Unseen about politics, economics and public policy. We talked about
I spoke to Jason Crawford of The Roots of Progress about the new movement of Progress Studies. We talked about
I talked with Mayank Seksaria of Liberty Mutual Investments about investing on macroeconomic views. We talked about
I spoke to Mary Childs who is the author of the exceptional book The Bond King. We talked about
I spoke to Steven Hamilton professor of Economics at George Washington University about Australian economic policy, and their upcoming elections. We talk about
What is the labour market like? What are the largest barriers in the labour market? Nathan Young and I spoke to economist Bryan Caplan about his new book Labor Econ Versus The World. We also talk about
Bets Bryan is willing to take
I spoke to David Manehim who works on reducing existential threats to humanity at the Technion. We talked about
Very fun on an underrated topic!