Riskgaming
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A podcast by venture capital firm Lux Capital on the opportunities and risks of science, technology, finance and the human condition. Hosted by Danny Crichton from our New York City studios.
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Episodes (185)
Is AI killing journalism? Pitchforks, Perplexity and reporters yelling “Boo!”
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Jun 25, 202428:58pending
The Orthogonal Bet: SimCity, Maxis and the ambitious modeling of everything
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Jun 21, 202422:52pending
Why high-throughput bio research needs better tools immediately
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Jun 14, 202423:26pending
The Orthogonal Bet: Novelist Robin Sloan’s Love for Books with Maps on the First...
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Jun 7, 202442:31pending
How Applied Intuition used the Valley’s hardest lessons to upgrade automotive wi...
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May 31, 202455:10pending
Orthogonal Bet: A technology vibe shift from utopian Star Trek to absurdist Doug...
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May 24, 202428:47pending
The soon-to-be-solved protein problem that will accelerate drug discovery
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May 17, 202420:46pending
Margaret Mead and the psychedelic community that theorized AI
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May 3, 202434:17pending
The nightmare specter of designer bioweapons and the people trying to stop them
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Apr 26, 202433:58pending
Lux and the Art of Startup Maintenance
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Apr 16, 202424:16pending
The Zone of Totality with Sam Arbesman
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Apr 12, 20249:35pending
Biology is becoming engineering and not just science
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Mar 15, 202424:27pending
The three revolutions in astrobiology and the search for extraterrestrial life
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Mar 7, 202432:30pending
“I am basically a cosmic Fluke” and the chaos of science, policy, and human narr...
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Feb 21, 202433:01pending
How an anonymous blog during the neural network winter led to Japan’s national A...
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Feb 14, 202445:15pending
The most wasteful infrastructure megaproject that wasn’t
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Feb 8, 202436:22pending
The stove hasn’t changed in decades. It’s time to upgrade.
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Feb 2, 202428:26pending
Astronauts all lie, but the biggest lie is that we will colonize Mars (Zach Wein...
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Jan 24, 202426:09pending
Why a Mars settlement could never be a libertarian paradise (Zach Weinersmith, P...
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Jan 24, 202425:05pending
How Impulse Space’s Helios will democratize access to Earth’s farthest orbits
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Jan 17, 202415:55pending
Why Tokyo’s Sakana AI is pioneering a new vanguard of national AI foundation mod...
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Jan 16, 20249:48pending
WTF Happened in AI in 2023?
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Dec 21, 202344:26pending
Eliot Peper's new novel 'Foundry' and the Future
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Dec 15, 202340:31pending
Erik Hoel (part 2): Dreaming, AI, and the Future of Education
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Erik Hoel (part 1): The Consciousness Winter
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Dec 8, 202335:02pending
Techno-Pragmatism: Looking Beyond Blind Optimism and Hopeless Pessimism
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Dec 1, 202331:15pending
AI: Disruption, Regulation, and the Road Ahead
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Nov 17, 202335:29pending
Navigating the Crossroads: Technology, Democracy, and National Security with Mil...
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Sep 15, 202347:39pending
Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan on rebuilding trust between Silicon Valley and the Pentag...
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Aug 30, 202342:06pending
Simulating Evolution: Playing God or the Next Frontier?
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Aug 18, 202344:15pending
How many creators will survive generative AI?
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Aug 15, 20235:51pending
We need to go deeper with the inception of deep geothermal energy
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Aug 4, 202335:26pending
The Science of Survival: Adapting Human Life for Other Planets
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Jul 28, 202338:36pending
The p-zombie theory of consciousness
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Jul 14, 202341:57pending
Fertility Rules from wildfire sperm death and microplastics to the potential of...
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Jul 7, 202330:40pending
“There are more astronauts alive than there are perfumers”: the complex supply c...
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Apr 11, 202317:11pending
“It subverts the structure even of other stories that are told about creation”
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Apr 4, 202327:44pending
“Smell can be art, and it also can be science”: AI/ML and digital olfaction
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Mar 29, 202326:40pending
How exponentials on top of exponentials in single-cell analysis is transforming...
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Mar 21, 202321:51pending
First impressions of OpenAI’s new GPT-4 AI model
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Mar 15, 202314:16pending
Chatphishing, veracity and “two years of chaos and a reset”
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Mar 14, 202336:11pending
May the AI be ever in your favor
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Mar 3, 202323:30pending
“That’s 100% what keeps me up at night”: Gary Marcus on AI and ChatGPT
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Feb 10, 202323:48pending
Why quitters are heroes with “Quit” author Annie Duke
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Jan 27, 202329:15pending
“I have three girls; the second one is bionic”
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Oct 20, 202214:49pending
We will observe a battle for the true openness in AI
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Oct 12, 202223:09pending
There’s always been a global race to develop chip technology
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Oct 5, 202228:00pending
Perhaps our greatest achievement is not being present
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Sep 30, 202224:21pending
Web3 is so far behind in terms of reliability and security
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Sep 27, 202217:46pending
How to recapitalize America’s bloated defense industrial base
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Sep 21, 202223:51pending