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TiB 142: "Elitist" AI; how Silicon Valley sees China; the unhappiness divide in politics; and more... #142 Nov 24, 2020
TiB 141: Whose jobs are at risk from robots; Friedrich Engels, venture capitalist; coronavirus fantasies; and more... #141 Nov 17, 2020
TiB 140: How to buy an election; accelerating scientific progress; "Shy Trump voters"; and more... #140 Nov 10, 2020
#139 Nov 3, 2020 TiB 139: King Daniel Ek; Elections and the structure of democracy; Polarisation in science; and more... – This week: What would the US look like as a multiparty democracy; how polarisation can happen even wh
#138 Oct 27, 2020 TiB 138: What's next in synthetic bio; New Zealand and sovereign wealth; when the US had a culture of building; and more... – This week: When the US had a culture of building; the last - and next - decade of synthetic biology;
#137 Oct 20, 2020 TiB 137: What China wants from Trump vs Biden; where top Chinese talent goes; America's challenging future; and more... – This week: America’s precarious future; what China wants from the US election; where top Chinese tale
#136 Oct 13, 2020 TiB 136: Taiwan and tail risk; Tiktok and algorithm design; the future of board games; and more... – This week: Why the risk of Taiwan-China conflict has never been higher; how TikTok designs its algori
#135 Oct 6, 2020 TiB 135: AI in 2020; why the world gets weirder and weirder; Big Tech and the stock market; and more... – This week: A look at the State of AI in 2020; why the stock market is less disconnected from the econ
#134 Sep 29, 2020 TiB 134: "Technological sovereignty"; why we dream; the missing piece in R&D; and more... – This week: What TikTok, Arm and SMIC tell us about technological sovereignty; new organisational desi
#133 Sep 22, 2020 TiB 133: Why the best ideas don't win; in praise of brain drain; how to preserve political norms; and more... – This week: how the "hardware lottery" shapes the development of machine learning; why brain drain can
#132 Sep 15, 2020 TiB 132: Computers vs the human brain; video games and predicting the future; disruption disrupted; and more... – This week: why big companies are less and less likely to be "disrupted"; the relative power of comput
#131 Sep 8, 2020 TiB 131: How smart are politicians; why tech needs some crazy money; religious fundamentalism and the internet; and more... – This week: Do we get the politicians we need or those we deserve; SPACs and the need for price-insens
#130 Sep 1, 2020 TiB 130: Why elections today seem so high stakes; evaluating extreme talent; the golden age of R&D; and more... – This week: what it takes to get more Bell Labs and Xerox Parcs; why elections seem so high stakes tod
#129 Aug 25, 2020 TiB 129: Authoritarian regimes and AI; the scenius of Silicon Valley; "Optimal Kickstarter"; and more... – This week: Why we should be skeptical that authoritarian regimes have a natural advantage in AI; the
#128 Aug 18, 2020 TiB 128: AI as an arms race; the depressing truth about organisations; scaling machine learning; and more... – This week: What happens if we can just keep scaling machine learning models; on AI development as a g
#127 Aug 11, 2020 TiB 127: The most powerful people in the world; the limitations of VC; murder mystery games; and more... – This week: why central bankers are underpaid; whether the venture capital model can work outside star
#126 Aug 4, 2020 TiB 126: Why democracy is doomed; in praise of ARPA; Trump as geopolitical banker; and more... – This week: the case for banning TikTok; why norm erosion is the greatest threat to democracy; why UK
#125 Jul 28, 2020 TiB 125: The tragedy of lost genius; why scientists shouldn't be creative; interests and ideology in US-China policy; and more... – This week: what Mathematical Olympiads tell us about talent misallocation; why the notion of contrari
#124 Jul 21, 2020 TiB 124: How to create tech optimism; the future of AI; ideological warfare via TikTok; and more... – This week: What GPT-3 tells us about the future of AI; why we underestimate the ideological dimension
#123 Jul 14, 2020 TiB 123: Information revolutions and public discourse; the future of elites; supply chains as public goods; and more... – This week: how much should we worry about Twitter's role in public life; how elites differ across tim
