Current08.05
a16z Podcast
Three Startups Reinventing Critical Infrastructure
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Current08.04
Ezra Klein Show
The A.I. Revolt Is Here
Current08.06
All-In Podcast
Saronic Founders: Autonomous Warships, China's 230X Advantage & Swarms of Robot Ships
Current08.05
Making Sense
#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity
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Recent07.13
Odd Lots
Odd Lots: Why AI Might Create More Work for Lawyers (Podcast)
Recent08.02
Fareed Zakaria GPS
How Iranians are Responding to War; Does Iran want a deal?
Recent07.31
Hard Fork
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight
Recent07.29
Lex Fridman Podcast
#499 – Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee
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Dwarkesh Podcast
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Archive06.05
Exponential View
Why AI isn’t showing up on your bottom line
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All-In Podcast
The unit economics of closing a 230× shipbuilding gap
Saronic argues that autonomous vessels are not cheaper miniature warships but a separate asset class that rewrites production volume, payload deployment, and procurement incentives together. If the United States cannot match China gross-ton for gross-ton, it must change the unit of competition from crewed hulls to distributed capability fielded each year.
Read deep →a16z PodcastCan software restore the capacity to build physical infrastructure?
Ulysses, Mariana Minerals, and Radiant share one diagnosis: America's bottleneck is not invention but the lost ability to repeatedly build and operate undersea systems, mineral refineries, and small reactors. Software and automation may compress that gap, but only if long-term demand, permitting, and operational capability change with them.
Read deep →Making SenseThe grammar of choice inside an autobiographical preview
Despite its 'Philosophy / AI Ethics' label, the public segment is a subscription preview about Sam Harris's family rather than a philosophical argument. Its analytical value lies in how Susan Harris's economic precarity and creative labour, plus an explicit childhood trade-off, contextualise his later consequentialist style—but that connection is editorial inference, not the episode's stated conclusion.
Read deep →Ezra Klein ShowThe data-centre backlash is a failure of consent, not siting
Jasmine Sun's 'AI populism' is not merely NIMBY opposition to noise or water use near data centres. The industry warns of job loss and inequality while hiding development facts behind NDAs and concentrating costs locally, producing a political rejection of AI's benefits, process, and distribution at once.
Read deep →Fareed Zakaria GPSPressure can trigger leverage preservation rather than concession
The strongest common signal across this multi-segment episode is that pressure instruments can strengthen leverage, identity, or exit routes instead of producing compliance. Iran negotiations, US tariffs, school accountability, and Stanford's venture incentives each show that stated goals reverse when policy ignores what actors are actually rewarded for.
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