"Moment of Zen"

96 Episodes

1. E16: AI open letter debate, "pausers", and what we're all scared of with AI with Anton Troynikov, Flo Crivello, and Nathan Labenz

   Published: 4/1/2023
2. E15: Nic Carter on Balaji's Bet, Operation Chokepoint 2.0, and the Fed's financial crisis

   Published: 3/25/2023
3. E14: Balaji Srinivasan on his $1M bet, Financial Crisis 2.0, Digital Devaluation of USD, and What Comes Next

   Published: 3/21/2023
4. E13: How SVB Unraveled and Whether Crypto Can Fix Finance with Byrne Hobart

   Published: 3/18/2023
5. E12: Effective Accelerationism and the AI Safety Debate with Bayeslord, Beff Jezoz, and Nathan Labenz

   Published: 3/11/2023
6. E11: America as a culture exporter, Egalitarianism eats the world, and why Social Justice isn't receding

   Published: 3/5/2023
7. E10: Disenfranchised men, AI Doomerism, and the Problems with Effective Altruism, with Amjad Masad

   Published: 2/26/2023
8. E9: Modern cold wars with China and Russia, the new right, and tech's cultural shift w/ Noah Smith

   Published: 2/19/2023
9. E8: Why is ChatGPT so woke, the arc of tech is centralization, and explaining the cathedral w/ Brian Chau

   Published: 2/12/2023
10. E7: Low vs High Culture, legacy vs new institutions, WWE, & Lex Fridman w/ Aarthi and Sriram

    Published: 2/4/2023
11. E6: The AI moment, AI vs crypto: a heated debate with Amjad Masad, Flo Crivello, and Nathan Labenz

    Published: 1/29/2023
12. E5 w/ The Realignment on Silicon Valley & DC, Trump vs DeSantis, and the future of media & politics

    Published: 1/21/2023
13. E4: USA vs Europe, Zeihan & Fukuyama, Reforming institutions vs starting new ones, and why we started "Moment of Zen"

    Published: 1/14/2023
14. E3 w/ Amjad Masad on AGI as religion for nerds, history as a series of conspiracies, and religion as a foundation for raising your kids

    Published: 1/8/2023
15. E2 w/ Marc Andreessen on Elon, Nietzsche, and America's Thousand Year Empire

    Published: 12/30/2022
16. E1: Moment of Zen E1 w/ Marc Andreessen on SBF/FTX, Twitter, and Open AI/Chat GPT

    Published: 12/27/2022