Manifold

Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Join him for wide-ranging conversations with leading writers, scientists, technologists, academics, entrepreneurs, investors, and more.

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

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   Scott Horton

   Scott Horton on the Russia Hoax and Ukraine War – #98 · Nov 2025

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   Tyler Cowen

   Tyler Cowen on Big Business, Socialism, Free Speech, and Stagnant Productivity Growth – #21 · Oct 2019

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   John Schulman

   John Schulman: OpenAI and recent advances in Artificial Intelligence – #16 · Aug 2019

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   Dominic Cummings

   Dominic Cummings: Vote Leave, Brexit, COVID, and No. 10 with Boris — #28 · Jan 2023

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   John Mearsheimer

   John Mearsheimer: Great Powers, U.S. Hegemony, and the Rise of China — #13 · Jun 2022

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   Joscha Bach

   Joscha Bach: Consciousness and AGI — #76 · Jan 2025

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   Robin Hanson

   Robin Hanson: Prediction Markets, the Future of Civilization, and Polymathy — #66 · Aug 2024

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   Jamie Metzl

   Jamie Metzl on Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity – #22 · Oct 2019

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   Dan Gable

   Dan Gable: Legendary NCAA and Olympic Wrestler & Coach – #41 · Apr 2020

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    Scott Aaronson

    Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing, Unsolvable Problems, & Artificial Intelligence — #9 · Apr 2022

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    Rob Henderson

    Rob Henderson: A Journey from Foster Care to the US Military to Elite Academia — #20 · Sep 2022

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    Geoffrey Miller

    Geoffrey Miller: Evolutionary Psychology, Polyamorous Relationships, and Effective Altruism — #26 · Dec 2022

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    Katherine Dee

    Katherine Dee: Culture, Identity, and Isolation in the Digital Age — #33 · Apr 2023

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    Sabine Hossenfelder

    Sabine Hossenfelder on the Crisis in Particle Physics and Against the Next Big Collider – #8 · Apr 2019

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    Sebastian Junger

    Sebastian Junger: Meaning from War and Technological Isolation in America – #29 · Jan 2020

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    Jeffrey Sachs

    Jeffrey Sachs: Lessons from the COVID Commission, Lab Leak Questions, and Nord Stream — #21 · Oct 2022

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    Stephen Grugett

    Stephen Grugett: Predicting the Future with Manifold Markets — #55 · Mar 2024

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    Razib Khan

    Razib Khan at Manifest 2026: Genetic Discoveries, AI, and Academia – #114 · Jun 2026

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    Richard Hanania

    Richard Hanania & Rob Henderson: The Rise of Wokeness and the Influence of Civil Rights Law — #39 · 2 episodes

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    Dan Wang

    Industrial Maximalism and Its Discontents: Dan Wang on US-China Competition – # 104 · Jan 2026

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    Elizabeth Kolbert

    Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate Change: Impacts and Mitigation Technologies – #33 · Feb 2020

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    Meghan Daum

    Meghan Daum on the New Culture Wars – #32 · Feb 2020

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    Ted Conover

    Ted Conover on Immigration, Prisons and 21st Century Homesteading – #25 · Dec 2019

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    James Cham

    James Cham on Venture Capital, Risk Taking, and the Future Impacts of AI – Episode #12 · Jun 2019

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    Sahil Lavingia

    Sahil Lavingia: Founding Gumroad, The Minimalist Entrepreneur, and our AI LLM future — #27 · Jan 2023

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    Samo Burja

    Samo Burja: Intellectuals, Culture. and the Technosphere — #70 · Oct 2024

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    Claude Steele

    Claude Steele on the Challenges of Multi-Cultural Societies – #38 · Mar 2020

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    Patrick McGee

    Patrick McGee: Apple In China — #88 · Jun 2025

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    Scott Adams

    Scott Adams on Trump, and his book Loserthink – #47 · May 2020

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    Sebastian Mallaby

    Sebastian Mallaby: Venture capital as an engine of courage — #8 · Mar 2022

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    Bruno Maçães

    Bruno Maçães: China, Russia and the Future of Eurasia – #26 · Dec 2019

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    Leif Wenar

    Leif Wenar on the Resource Curse and Impact Philosophy – #49 · Jun 2020

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    Molson Hart

    Molson Hart: China and Amazon, Up Close — #60 · May 2024

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    Yasheng Huang

    Yasheng Huang: China's Examination System and its impact on Politics, Economy, Innovation — #45 · Oct 2023

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    Kaiser Kuo

    Kaiser Kuo of Sinica on Modern China and US-China relations – Episode #5 · Mar 2019

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    Stuart Firestein

    Stuart Firestein on Why Ignorance and Failure Lead to Scientific Progress – Episode #14 · Jul 2019

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    Vineer Bhansali

    Vineer Bhansali: Physics, Tail Risk Hedging, and 900% Coronavirus Returns – #43 · Apr 2020

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    Jaan Tallinn

    AI Billionaire on Existential Risk: Jaan Tallinn – #112 · 3 episodes

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    Misha Laskin

    Misha Laskin, Reflection.ai — From Physics to SuperIntelligence · Mar 2025

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    Ted Chiang

    Ted Chiang on Free Will, Time Travel, Many Worlds, Genetic Engineering, and Hard Science Fiction – #19 · Sep 2019

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