Current07.29
a16z Podcast
AI Micro Dramas, Generative Media, and the Future of Creativity
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Current07.29
All-In Podcast
The $1/Hour Worker: Four Robotics CEOs on Humanoids at Home, China’s Threat, and the End of Dangerous Jobs
Current07.29
Lex Fridman Podcast
#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee
Current07.28
Ezra Klein Show
What is the Democratic Party? What Could It Be?
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Recent07.26
Fareed Zakaria GPS
Exclusive Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Prospects for Democracy in Venezuela
Recent07.24
Hard Fork
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
Recent07.23
Making Sense
#486 — Luck All the Way Down
Recent07.13
Odd Lots
Odd Lots: Why AI Might Create More Work for Lawyers (Podcast)
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Archive06.05
Exponential View
Why AI isn’t showing up on your bottom line
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Dwarkesh Podcast
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a16z Podcast
AI video’s bottleneck has moved from models to storytelling
Justine Moore’s argument is not merely that generative video is getting cheaper. Once model quality crosses a watchability threshold, advantage migrates from compute to narrative craft, distribution, and repeatable production—repricing both entertainment’s supply curve and the organization of creative work.
Read deep →All-In PodcastWhat $1-an-hour robotic labor would do to manufacturing
The shared signal across four robotics CEOs is not another humanoid demo. Labor cost, training data, and supply-chain sovereignty are collapsing into one competitive equation. If the $1-per-hour target becomes real, automation changes wage bargaining and factory location before it visibly replaces workers.
Read deep →Lex Fridman PodcastStrip away Civil War myth and causation comes back into view
Gary Gallagher traces how later political narratives rearranged the Civil War’s causation, generals, turning points, and Reconstruction. His central proposition is that removing slavery makes the war unintelligible, while the Lost Cause converted the reason for defeat into an abstract constitutional principle.
Read deep →Ezra Klein ShowA political party is local trust infrastructure, not a brand
Ben Wickler locates the Democratic Party’s problem in organizational hollowness rather than message wording. Wisconsin voters producing different presidential, Senate, and state-legislative results on the same ballot suggests they separately evaluate ideology, delivery, and whether a candidate is on their side.
Read deep →Fareed Zakaria GPSThe fracture between technological speed and institutional speed
Fareed Zakaria’s three segments ask what breaks when governments, firms, and states cannot match the pace of technology and expectation. Nadella’s Reverse Information Paradox is the most operational idea: an organization buying answers may simultaneously transfer context and reasoning patterns to the model provider.
Read deep →Editorial standard
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