Stephen Hsu
Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University.
Appears in 157 Episodes
AI DOOM: Jesse Hoogland of Timaeus
This is the second episode of our series based on interviews for the documentary film, Dreamers and Doomers, about the SF Bay Area in the last days before AGI. Steve i...
Dreamers and Doomers: Jeremy Nixon at AGI House – #105
Jeremy Nixon is a prominent AI researcher, entrepreneur, and the co-founder of AGI House, a leading "hacker house" community for artificial intelligence developers in ...
Industrial Maximalism and Its Discontents: Dan Wang on US-China Competition – # 104
Links:Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Futurehttps://www.amazon.com/Breakneck-Chinas-Quest-Engineer-Future/dp/1324106034Dan's 2025 annual letterhttps://danwang...
Geopolitics 2026, crossover with Seeking Truth From Facts podcast – #103
Steve and Alf discuss geopolitical events of 2025 and what they expect in 2026.Links:Manifold episode with Han Feizi, Letter From Beijinghttps://www.manifold1.com/epis...
Polygenics and Machine SuperIntelligence; Billionaires, Philo-semitism, and Chosen Embryos – #102
This is a two-part episode. The first ~30m covers the most important 2025 breakthroughs in polygenic embryo screening, while the second 30m focuses specifically on AI ...
Theoretical Physics With Generative AI – #101
All but the last 20 minutes of this episode should be comprehensible to non-physicists.Steve explains where frontier AI models are in understanding frontier theoretica...
Jeffrey Epstein, Israel, and Elite Power, with Murtaza Hussain – #100
Murtaza Hussain is a reporter for Drop Site News, which has brokenimportant stories based on recently obtained Epstein emails. Hussainreports that Epstein had an “exte...
Jian Lian on China's Industrial Policy and Global Strategy – #99
Jian Lian is an expert on China's political economy, industrial development, and technological development. He graduated from Peking University with a bachelor's and m...
Scott Horton on the Russia Hoax and Ukraine War – #98
Scott Horton is the author of Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. Horton is a libertarian and anti-war activi...
AIs Win Math Olympiad Gold: Prof. Lin Yang (UCLA) – #97
Lin Yang is a professor of computer science at UCLA. Recently, he and his collaborator built an AI pipeline using commercial models such as Gemini, ChatGPT, and Grok t...
The Global AI Race: Z.ai and the View from Beijing — #96
Zixuan Li is Director of Product and genAI Strategy at Z.ai. He was educated at Renmin and Tsinghua University in China, and at MIT and Carnegie Mellon. Z.ai has relea...
Seeking Truth From Facts: Weeks Where Decades Happen — #95
This episode is a co-release with the Seeking Truth From Facts podcast: https://substack.com/@seekingtruthfromfactsThe theme of this episode derives from Lenin:“There ...
Kyle Chan on the Future of US-China Competition — #94
Kyle Chan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Sociology at Princeton University. His research focuses on industrial policy, clean technology, and infr...
Joleen Liang: 40M+ kids educated by adaptive AI — #93
Dr. Joleen Liang is Co-founder of Squirrel AI, which pioneered adaptive learning at scale, first in China and now in the US. By 2021 its technology had served over 60,...
Max Dama on HFT: Millisecond Algos and Bid/Ask Dynamics — #92
Max Dama is the co-chairman of Headlands Technologies LLC, a global quantitative proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, Austin, L...
Andrew Song: Global Cooling with Sulfur Dioxide in the Stratosphere — #91
Andrew Song is a co-founder of Make Sunsets, a company focused on addressing climate change through solar geoengineering. The company launches balloons filled with sul...
Manifold Discord Channel: Live Q&A with Steve — #90
Manifold has its own Discord channel! https://discord.gg/dvcHS6NXThe purpose of the channel is to create a community of listeners with shared interests. It developed ...
Omar Shams: AI Founder and Google AI Agent Lead — #89
Shams was trained in theoretical physics before becoming an AI engineer at DeepMind and founding the company Mutable, which was acquired by Google. He is now lead engi...
Patrick McGee: Apple In China — #88
Patrick McGee is a longtime FT business reporter with extensive experience reporting on China. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Apple in China: the capture of ...
GODZILLA DOWN! India-Pakistan Clash and Chinese Military Technology with TP Huang — #87
Steve and TP discuss the implications of the recent air battle between India and Pakistan, which involved over 100 fighter jets and took place entirely beyond visual r...
Robots, Small Models, and RL with DeepSeek Alumnus Zihan Wang — #86
Zihan Wang is an AI researcher at Northwestern University, where he works on vision-language models, robotics, and reinforcement learning. Previously, he interned at D...
Dan Collins: Tariffs and the Future of US Manufacturing — #85
Dan Collins is Founder of Tyrell Chemical. He studied at Tsinghua University and spent 20 years working for companies like General Motors in China, helping to localize...
Seeking Truth From Facts: AI, China, Tariffs, Geopolitics — #84
This episode is a co-release with the podcast Seeking Truth From Facts: https://seekingtruthfromfacts.substack.com/Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues L...
Incels, Evo Psych, and Modern Literature with ARX-Han — #83
Steve speaks with ARX-Han, an anonymous writer, about his book "Incel."Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.–Stev...
Callum Williams: Economics, AI, and Technological Progress — #82
Callum Williams is a senior economics writer for The Economist. He was educated at Oxford, Harvard, and Cambridge, and is the author of The Classical School: The Birth...
Misha Laskin, Reflection.ai — From Physics to SuperIntelligence
Misha Laskin is CEO of Reflection.ai. He was trained in theoretical physics at Yale and Chicago before becoming an AI scientist. He made important contributions in Rei...
Taylor Ogan, Snow Bull Capital: China's tech frontier, the view from Shenzhen, Part 2
Taylor Ogan is Chief Executive Officer of Snow Bull Capital, based in Shenzhen, China. His firm invests in Chinese technology companies, with a focus on areas such as ...
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 Mathema...
Jim Haslam: Covid Origins and Coronavirus Genetic Engineering — #77
Relevant links:Jim Haslam on X: https://x.com/jhas5Jim's Substack: https://jimhaslam.substack.com/Jim's book, "COVID-19: Mystery Solved," on Amazon: https://www.amazon...