Steve Hsu: IQ, artificial intelligence and academia
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Steve Hsu, physicist, entrepreneur and public intellectual. Hsu is an Iowan who earned his undergraduate degree from Caltech and his Ph.D. from Berkeley. Later he was a Harvard Junior Fe…
Steve Hsu: IQ, artificial intelligence and academia
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Steve Hsu, physicist, entrepreneur and public intellectual. Hsu is an Iowan who earned his undergraduate degree from Caltech and his Ph.D. from Berkeley. Later he was a Harvard Junior Fe…
Kristian Kristiansen: DNA and European prehistory
One of the preeminent archaeologists of Northern Europe talks about where we are in 2024
Murtaza Hussain: Gaza and the global left
Today Razib talks to Murtaza Hussain about the social, cultural and political context of recent fissures in the US around the conflict in Israel and Gaza. Hussain is a reporter at The Intercept and has his own Substack. They begin their conversation t…
Samo Burja: Palladium Magazine, China, Russia and the future of Eurasia
The founder of Bismarck Analysis returns to talk about international and personal futures
Samo Burja: Palladium Magazine, China, Russia and the future of Eurasia
The founder of Bismarck Analysis returns to talk about international and personal futures
Open Thread – 3/19/2024 – Brown Pundits
What’s up?
Beyond the Pale: Irish cultural uniqueness past Rome’s reach
How ancient history set Ireland on an alternate route despite genetic unity in the Isles
Chris Stringer: human evolution in 2024
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib welcomes back paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer. Affiliated with the Natural History Museum in London, Stringer is the author of African Exodus. The Origins of Modern Humanity, Lone Survivors: How We Came…
Steve Hsu: IQ, artificial intelligence and academia
Adventures in entrepreneurship and academia
Murtaza Hussain: Gaza and the global left
The return of Third-Worldism and Israel
Zoe Booth and Iona Italia: Quillette’s dynamic duo
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Zoe Booth and Iona Italia. Booth is community engagement officer and Italia is managing editor at Quillette. An Australian, Booth has degrees in French, Politics and Law from the University of Ne…
Zoe Booth and Iona Italia: Quillette’s dynamic duo
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Zoe Booth and Iona Italia. Booth is community engagement officer and Italia is managing editor at Quillette. An Australian, Booth has degrees in French, Politics and Law from the University of Ne…
RKUL: Time Well Spent 03/03/2024
Super Grandma edition
RKUL: Time Well Spent 03/03/2024
Super Grandma edition
Nick Cassimatis: fear not AI, this too shall pass
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Nick Cassimatis, erstwhile artificial intelligence researcher and currently an entrepreneur. Cassimatis has undergraduate and doctoral degrees in cognitive and computer science from Massachusetts…
The longer I live, the wronger I get to be
On the gift of an emerging field’s incessant pace of self-correction
The longer I live, the wronger I get to be
On the gift of an emerging field’s incessant pace of self-correction
Chris Stringer: human evolution in 2024
Denisovans, Homo naledi and lost civilizations
The two Indo-European revolutions and Germania’s rise
From small-scale farmers to the rulers of the post-Roman world