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Ken Liu: Art in the Age of AI — #79
Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his novel translations and original short fic...
US-PRC Tech War: DeepSeek AI and 6th Generation Fighters — #78
Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure. -- Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mat...
Jim Haslam: Covid Origins and Coronavirus Genetic Engineering — #77
Relevant links: Jim Haslam on X: https://x.com/jhas5 Jim's Substack: https://jimhaslam.substack.com/ Jim's book, "COVID-19: Mystery Solved," on Amazon: https://www.ama...
Joscha Bach: Consciousness and AGI — #76
Joscha Bach is a German cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher known for his work on cognitive architectures, artificial intelligence, mental representati...
Adventures in Physics, Trump, and more, with the Information Theory podcast — #75
This episode is an interview I did with the new podcast Information Theory. The host of Information Theory is an anonymous technologist trained in physics and machine ...
Pascal Lottaz: Neutrality, Geopolitics, and International Conflict — #74
Pascal Lottaz is Associate Professor at Kyoto University’s Faculty of Law & Hakubi Center. His research area is Neutrality Studies - the study of neutrality as a conce...
Letter from Shanghai: Reflections on China in 2024 — #73
Links to X posts made during my trip - check out the whole timeline during this period. PPP and US vs PRC Real GDP https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/18516531681589...
Letter from Beijing, with Han Feizi — #72
Han Feizi is the pseudonym of a columnist for Asia Times, who covers the Chinese economy, technology, and US-China competition. The author lives in Beijing, and has an...
Seeking Truth From Facts: Israel and Iran, Missile Defense, China Economic Development
This is a crossover episode with the Seeking Truth From Facts podcast. Links: Iran ballistic missiles and missile defense https://stevehsu.substack.com/p/iran-v...
Samo Burja: Intellectuals, Culture. and the Technosphere — #70
Samo Burja founded Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm that investigates the political and institutional landscape of society. He is a Senior Research Fellow in Polit...
Deus Ex Machina: A Man, Machines, and God
This is a crossover episode in which https://x.com/loubohan interviews me for his podcast Deus Ex Machina. I was obviously in an exuberant mood for this interview - it...
Seeking Truth From Facts: Alf & Steve Hsu — #68
This is a crossover episode in which Alf of the Seeking Truth from Facts podcast interviews Steve Hsu about the Chinese economy and political system, and US-China comp...
Letter from Reykjavik: Genomics, Chess, Hyperscaling genAI, and Quantum Black Holes — #67
This is a short episode recorded at the end of a trip to Caltech (LA), Frankfurt, and Reykjavik. Black hole information and replica wormholes at Caltech (talk slides):...
Robin Hanson: Prediction Markets, the Future of Civilization, and Polymathy — #66
Robin Hanson is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He has worked in a variety of fields, including Physics, AI, Economics, and Futurism. Follow him a...
China Today: Myths and Realities — #65
Steve discusses China myths and realities with Victor, a tech founder who ran a company in Beijing for 7 years. Among the topics covered: economic growth, real estate ...
Ivy League Anonymous: Great Awokening and Campus Radicals — #64
Earlier episode, Harvard Veritas: https://www.manifold1.com/episodes/harvard-veritas-interview-with-a-recent-graduate-anonymous-18 Chapter markers: Music used with pe...
AI Global Odyssey: REAL Situational Awareness — #63
Steve talks about AI in light of his recent travels to SF, Singapore, Manila, Berkeley, and Silicon Valley. Chapters: Links: Scaling Laws for Neural Language Model...
Philippe Lemoine: Bad Covid Science, Ukraine Analysis, and Philosophy — #62
Philippe Lemoine is a PhD candidate at Cornell University in philosophy and a widely-read public intellectual. We discuss philosophy, the scientific research used to j...
John Seo: Catastrophe Bonds and the Investor Choice Problem — Manifold #61
Dr John Seo is co-founder and a managing director at Fermat Capital Management, LLC. He has over 30 years’ experience in fixed income bond and derivatives trading and ...
Molson Hart: China and Amazon, Up Close — #60
Molson Hart is the CEO of Viahart, an educational toy company. He has deep experience selling products manufactured in China, using Amazon and other platforms. He prod...