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Thursday, January 25, 2024

Utah AG Sean Reyes: “Sound of Freedom” and Human Trafficking — Manifold #52

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  Sean Reyes is Utah Attorney General and a producer for the movie “Sound of Freedom.”  Steve and Sean discuss his personal story, human tra...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

SuperFocus, AI, and Philippine Call Centers: Part 2

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This is the sequel to the  earlier conversation with Dominic Ligot, an AI expert who works with the IT and Business Process Association ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Upstream podcast with Erik Torenberg: Steve Hsu on the Future of Everything

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  Great conversation with Erik, a well-known SV Founder and investor.  TIMESTAMPS:  (00:00) Intro  (02:01) Political polarization in academi...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Military Technology and U.S.-China War in the Pacific — Manifold #51

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  TP Huang returns for the third time to discuss US-China strategic competition and military technology.  Audio-Only version and Transcript:...
Wednesday, January 03, 2024

SuperFocus, AI, and Philippine Call Centers

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  This is a conversation with Dominic Ligot, an AI expert who works with the IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP),...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men 2023

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When asked what I want for Christmas, I reply: Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men :-) No one ever seems to recognize that this comes from...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

Louis-Vincent Gave: Understanding China’s Economy, and U.S. Competition — Manifold #50

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  Louis-Vincent Gave of Gavekal discusses China's economic growth, its focus on education, and the global implications of its economic a...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

PISA 2023 and the Gloomy Prospect

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I'm in the Philippines now. I flew here after the semester ended, in order to meet with outsourcing (BPO = Business Process Outsourcing)...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Charles Miller: Satellite Technology and the Future of Mobile Connectivity — Manifold #49

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  Charles Miller is co-founder and CEO of Lynk. He is a serial space entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in the space industry.  Lynk -...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

China's EV Market Dominance and the Challenges Facing Tesla — Manifold #48

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  TP Huang is a computer scientist and analyst of global technology development.  He posts often on X: https://x.com/tphuang .  The EV tippi...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

Hypersonic Weapons and Missile Defense

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Detailed analysis of boost-glide (BGV) and Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicles (MaRV): physics of interception by US SM-2,3 etc. Hypersonic Weap...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Taylor Ogan, Snow Bull Capital: China's tech frontier, the view from Shenzhen — Manifold #47

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  I really enjoyed this conversation. Taylor is a very unique investor who relocated his fund to Shenzhen in order to have direct access to ...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

The Future of Intelligence: An Interview with Steve Hsu (The Latecomer Magazine)

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These are excerpts from a recent interview that appeared in the first issue of the new magazine The Latecomer. Read the whole thing! T...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Paradise Lost - Migdal, Polyakov, and Landau

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This is a placeholder for a longer post I hope to expand on in the future, based on this essay:  Paradise Lost - Alexander Migdal   Migdal a...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

Abdus Salam and the Pakistan Nuclear Weapons Program

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After my conversation with Bharat Karnad about the Indian nuclear arsenal I became curious about Pakistan's nuclear program.  See Bharat...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Bharat Karnad: India geostrategy, nuclear arsenal, and assassination of Homi Bhabha, the Oppenheimer of India — Manifold #46

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  Bharat Karnad is an Emeritus Professor in National Security Studies at the Center for Policy Research in Delhi. He was a member of India...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Quantum Hair During Gravitational Collapse (published version in Physical Review D)

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https://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.086012 This is a follow up to our earlier work on quantum gravitational corrections ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

SMPY 65: Help support the SMPY Longitudinal Study

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The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) needs your help to support the Age-65 phase of their unique longitudinal study.  For...
Thursday, October 05, 2023

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

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  Yasheng Huang is the Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His new book is ...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Hacking State 13 - Steve Hsu: Polygenic Embryo Selection, Improving LLMs, & Getting Nearly Cancelled

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  Alex Murshak is a Michigan State grad working as an AI engineer in Austin TX. This conversation is Episode 13 of his podcast Hacking State...

Huawei and the US-China Chip War — Manifold #44

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  TP Huang is a computer scientist and analyst of global technology development. He posts often on X: https://twitter.com/tphuang   Audio-on...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

Meritocracy, SAT Scores, and Laundering Prestige at Elite Universities — Manifold #43

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  I discuss 10 key graphs related to meritocracy and university admissions. Predictive power of SATs and other factors in elite admissions d...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

The World of Yesterday: Steve Hsu on polygenic scores, gene editing, human flourishing

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  I really enjoyed this long conversation with Dan Schulz, an MSU engineering grad who works in tech. Dan did his homework and we covered a ...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Aella: Sex Work, Sex Research, and Data Science — Manifold #42

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  Aella is a sex worker, sex researcher, and data scientist.  Aella on X: https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl   Interviews with ex-prostitutes on...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

AI on your phone? Tim Dettmers on quantization of neural networks — Manifold #41

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  Tim Dettmers develops computationally efficient methods for deep learning. He is a leader in quantization: coarse graining of large neural...
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