Faster, Please! — The Podcast
Welcome to Faster, Please! — The Podcast. Several times a month, host Jim Pethokoukis will feature a lively conversation with a fascinating and provocative guest about how to make the world a better place by accelerating scientific discovery, technological innovation, and economic growth. fasterplease.substack.com
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⚛ My chat (+transcript) with the US Energy Department's Mike Goff on powering th...
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🤖 My chat (+transcript) with Google economist Guy Ben-Ishai on seizing the hist...
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🏙 My chat (+transcript) with ... economist Jason Barr on the skyscrapers of tom...
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🤖🌈 My chat (+transcript) with Nick Bostrom on life in an AI utopia
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🤖 My chat (+transcript) with tech policy analyst Adam Thierer on regulating AI
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🚀 My chat (+transcript) with Charles Murray on Project Apollo
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🦁 My chat (+transcript) with investment strategist Ed Yardeni on his optimism f...
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⚡⚛ My chat (+transcript) with Steve Obenschain of LaserFusionX on laser fusion
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☢ My chat (+transcript) with Spencer Weart on the history of nuclear energy fear
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🌐 My chat (+transcript) with John Bailey on the potential for AI in education
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🌐 My chat (+transcript) with James Walker of microreactor startup NANO Nuclear...
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🌐 My chat (+transcript) with defense policy analyst Todd Harrison on the US Spa...
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⚛ My chat (+transcript) with TAE Technologies CEO Michl Binderbauer on the futur...
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🌐 My chat (+transcript) with Andrew McAfee on how to upgrade any company like a...
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🌞 My chat with Marc Andreessen on the need for techno-optimism
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🌐 My chat (+transcript) with Johan Norberg on the case for capitalism — and the...
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🌎 My chat (+transcript) with political scientist Francis Fukuyama on technologi...
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🌎 My chat (+transcript) with climate scientist Zeke Hausfather
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