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85 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Ajeya Cotra

   Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · Sep 2026

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   Dylan Patel

   Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028 · 3 episodes

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   Ryan Greenblatt

   Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · Aug 2026

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   Adam Brown

   Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity · 2 episodes

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   Grant Sanderson

   Grant Sanderson – AI and the future of math · 2 episodes

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   Ada Palmer

   Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time · Jun 2026

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   Phil Trammell

   Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI? · Jun 2026

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   Reiner Pope

   Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up · 2 episodes

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   Eric Jang

   Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch · May 2026

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    David Reich

    David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution · 2 episodes

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    Jensen Huang

    Jensen Huang – TPU competition, why we should sell chips to China, & Nvidia’s supply chain moat · Apr 2026

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    Michael Nielsen

    Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses · Apr 2026

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    Terence Tao

    Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery · Mar 2026

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    Dario Amodei

    Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential" · 2 episodes

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    Elon Musk

    Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space” · Feb 2026

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    Adam Marblestone

    Adam Marblestone — AI is missing something fundamental about the brain · Dec 2025

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    Sarah Paine

    Sarah Paine — Why Russia Lost the Cold War · 6 episodes

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    Ilya Sutskever

    Ilya Sutskever — We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research · 2 episodes

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    Satya Nadella

    Satya Nadella — How Microsoft is preparing for AGI · 2 episodes

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    Andrej Karpathy

    Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away · Oct 2025

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    Nick Lane

    Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable · Oct 2025

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    Richard Sutton

    Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end · Sep 2025

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    Stephen Kotkin

    Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history · Jul 2025

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    Mark Zuckerberg

    Mark Zuckerberg — AI will write most Meta code in 18 months · 2 episodes

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    Joseph Henrich

    Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution · Mar 2025

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    Noam Shazeer

    Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI · Feb 2025

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    Tyler Cowen

    Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans · 4 episodes

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    Daniel Yergin

    Daniel Yergin — Oil destroyed Hitler, fracking destroyed Putin · Sep 2024

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    Joe Carlsmith

    Joe Carlsmith — Preventing an AI takeover · 2 episodes

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    Patrick McKenzie

    Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan · Jul 2024

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    Tony Blair

    Tony Blair — Why political leaders keep failing at major change · Jun 2024

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    Francois Chollet

    Francois Chollet — Why the biggest AI models can't solve simple puzzles · Jun 2024

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    Leopold Aschenbrenner

    Leopold Aschenbrenner — 2027 AGI, China/US super-intelligence race, & the return of history · Jun 2024

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    John Schulman

    John Schulman (OpenAI Cofounder) — Reasoning, RLHF, & plan for 2027 AGI · May 2024

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    Trenton Bricken

    Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think · Mar 2024

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    Demis Hassabis

    Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold · Feb 2024

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    Patrick Collison

    Patrick Collison — Why Silicon Valley's most talented should leave · Feb 2024

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    Jung Chang

    Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine · Nov 2023

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    Andrew Roberts

    Andrew Roberts — Why Hitler lost WWII, Churchill as applied historian, & Napoleon as startup founder · Nov 2023

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    Dominic Cummings

    Dominic Cummings - COVID, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance · Nov 2023

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