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TiB 175: Regulating Facebook; how to win more; DeFi and the real world; and more... #176 Jul 27, 2021
TiB 174: The future is weird; more silicon geopolitics; how to get better science; and more... #175 Jul 20, 2021
TiB 173: A brief history of the future; Chinese AI; talent and invention; and more... #174 Jul 13, 2021
#173 Jul 7, 2021 (Resend) TiB 172: Who makes history; Grading our pandemic response; The internet and personal agency; and more... – Apologies if you got this yesterday; the first version was getting picked up as junk mail by many mai
#172 Jul 6, 2021 TiB 172: Who makes history; Grading our pandemic response; The internet and personal agency; and more... – This week: Why our global pandemic response was so disastrous; two essays on how history is made; mod
#171 Jun 29, 2021 TiB 171: Remote work forever; the psychology of ambition; the EU on China; and more... – This week: Why remote work will survive the pandemic; the EU's (doomed?) attempt to separate politics
#170 Jun 22, 2021 TiB 170: How to get more growth, better institutions and more unicorns; and more... – This week: Why the industrial revolution didn't happen in Rome; ideas for "missing" high-impact insti
#169 Jun 15, 2021 TiB 169: AI authors; better ways to fund startups; China's "Digital Silk Road"; and more... – This week: What happens when machines make better art than humans; a way for governments to improve i
#168 Jun 8, 2021 TiB 168: Pandemics and bad science; when AIs make us unethical; catastrophic risk; and more... – This week: How bad incentives in science make pandemics more likely; what governments can do to manag
#167 Jun 1, 2021 TiB 167: AI safety; China's missing founders; how to build AI companies; and more... – This week: A new AI research company with big ambitions for AI safety; more evidence that the world i
#166 May 25, 2021 TiB 166: Twitter and economic stagnation; China’s GPT-3; climate change makes us bad; and more... – This week: how social media may be holding back economic progress; Chinese researchers push the bound
#165 May 18, 2021 TiB 165: When bankers become founders; the world's biggest risks; New Science; and more... – This week: Evidence that the supply of great entrepreneurs is not fixed; a new institutional approach
#164 May 11, 2021 TiB 164: Zuckerberg as monarch; the limits of IP; crypto and values; and more... – This week: Why Zuck needs to give away power in order to retain it; why "learning by doing" beats int
#163 May 4, 2021 TiB 163: Prophets, Wizards and Climate Change; Consciousness; Semiconductor talent; and more... – This week: How much faith should we put in technology to solve the world's great challenges; how tale
#162 Apr 27, 2021 TiB 162: The EU vs AI; Skill vs Luck; COVID vs internet security; and more... – This week: The potential impact of the EU's new draft AI regulations; how people systematically confu
#161 Apr 20, 2021 TiB 161: Crypto vs the state; war and semiconductors; talent investing and institution building; and more... – This week: How war in Taiwan would wreak havoc on the global economy; why crypto will never replace t
#160 Apr 13, 2021 TiB 160: Nuclear weapons and AI; anti-portfolios in philanthropy; the second order benefits of science; and more... – This week: What the governance of nuclear weapons can tell us about the politics of AI; the role of "
#159 Apr 6, 2021 TiB 159: "Private ARPA"; against entrepreneurs; improving access to AI; and more... – This week: A manual for building a private ARPA; the latest TiB podcast, which suggests there *might*
#158 Mar 30, 2021 TiB 158: Silicon geopolitics; better science; the past, present and future of legitimacy; and more... – This week: Imagining better ways to fund science; where political legitimacy comes from in the intern
#157 Mar 23, 2021 TiB 157: History's most pivotal moments; how SpaceX won; AI + UBI; and more... – This week: On whether a world of AI requires universal basic income; what governments can learn from
