Podcast Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas

Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	76:09
Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	80:31
Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	157:30
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	133:20
Tyler Cowen - The Great Reset	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	47:05
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Reiner Pope – The math behind how LLMs are trained and served	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	133:50
Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	103:13
Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	123:04
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	83:45
Dylan Patel — Deep dive on the 3 big bottlenecks to scaling AI compute	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	150:45
The most important question nobody's asking about AI	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	24:39
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	122:20
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	142:20
Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	169:46
Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	109:54
Thoughts on AI progress (Dec 2025)	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	12:28
Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	114:55
Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	96:04
Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	87:48
Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	90:37
Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	145:20
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	80:09
Some thoughts on the Sutton interview	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	11:40
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	66:22
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	88:29
How Hitler almost starved Britain – Sarah Paine	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	95:18
Evolution designed us to die fast; we can change that — Jacob Kimmel	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	104:40
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	68:22
Artificial meat is harder than artificial intelligence — Lewis Bollard	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	68:05
Sarah Paine — How Imperial Japan defeated Tsarist Russia & Qing China	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	115:37
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	132:41
Why I don’t think AGI is right around the corner	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	14:01
A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George Church	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	93:45
Why China's manufacturing economy is dominating — Arthur Kroeber	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	146:44
"China is digging out of a crisis. And America’s luck is wearing thin." — Ken Rogoff	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	96:05
Xi Jinping’s paranoid approach to AGI, debt crisis, & Politburo politics — Victor Shih	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	89:09
Is RL + LLMs enough for AGI? — Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	144:02
What will automated firms look like?	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	10:18
Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months	Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas	75:03

Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?

Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas

76:09

Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up

Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas

80:31

Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch

Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas

157:30

David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution

Bryan Caplan - Nurturing Orphaned Ideas

133:20