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#83 – Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at University of Oxford and the director of the Future of Humanity Institute. He has […]

#82 – Simon Sinek: Leadership, Hard Work, Optimism and the Infinite Game Simon Sinek is an author of several books including Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and his […]

#81 – Anca Dragan: Human-Robot Interaction and Reward Engineering Anca Dragan is a professor at Berkeley, working on human-robot interaction — algorithms that look b […]

#80 – Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Money Vitalik Buterin is co-creator of Ethereum and ether, which is a cryptocurrency that is currently […]

#79 – Lee Smolin: Quantum Gravity and Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist, co-inventor of loop quantum gravity, and a contributor of […]

#78 – Ann Druyan: Cosmos, Carl Sagan, Voyager, and the Beauty of Science Ann Druyan is the writer, producer, director, and one of the most important and impactful […]

#77 – Alex Garland: Ex Machina, Devs, Annihilation, and the Poetry of Science Alex Garland is a writer and director of many imaginative and philosophical films from the […]

#76 – John Hopfield: Physics View of the Mind and Neurobiology John Hopfield is professor at Princeton, whose life’s work weaved beautifully through biology, c […]

#75 – Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI Marcus Hutter is a senior research scientist at DeepMind and professor at Australian National […]

#74 – Michael I. Jordan: Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, and the Future of AI Michael I. Jordan is a professor at Berkeley, and one of the most influential people […]

#73 – Andrew Ng: Deep Learning, Education, and Real-World AI Andrew Ng is one of the most impactful educators, researchers, innovators, and leaders in artificial […]

#72 – Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing Scott Aaronson is a professor at UT Austin, director of its Quantum Information Center, and previously a professor at MIT. His […]

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Vladimir Vapnik: Predicates, Invariants, and the Essence of Intelligence Vladimir Vapnik is the co-inventor of support vector machines, support vector clustering, VC […]

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Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles Jim Keller is a legendary microprocessor engineer, having worked at AMD, Apple, Tesla, and […]

David Chalmers: The Hard Problem of Consciousness David Chalmers is a philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in philosophy of mind, philosophy of […]

Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm Cristos Goodrow is VP of Engineering at Google and head of Search and Discovery at YouTube (aka YouTube Algorithm). This […]

Paul Krugman: Economics of Innovation, Automation, Safety Nets & Universal Basic Income Paul Krugman is a Nobel Prize winner in economics, professor at CUNY, and […]