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Key Insights on Science

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  • Research proposal involves 25 cerebral palsy patients over five years to test replicability of the transformation method
  • What to Make of a Life took Collins 12 years of research studying pairs of notable figures who faced similar 'cliff events' that forced life reconstruction
  • Research shows perceived inequality drives political radicalization more than actual inequality, with social media amplifying wealth exposure effects
  • Political efficacy research shows reducing polarization doesn't reduce violence support, but belief in democratic channels working does
  • UBI proposals may backfire by confirming economic decline fears rather than addressing trajectory concerns, according to sacred values research
  • OpenClaw research agent operates 24/7 to hunt for new AI use cases and categorize them as Primetime, Emerging, or Frontier
  • AI models have crossed from creative parlor tricks into genuine reasoning, solving problems in medicine, law, and science that seemed impossible 18 months ago

Episodes

Grace Shao on What the World Should Know About Chinese AI

Grace Shao on What the World Should Know About Chinese AI

How Substack Creators Are Covering This Strange Markets Era

How Substack Creators Are Covering This Strange Markets Era

Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier

Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier

Carmen Li's Plan to Build a Futures Market for Compute

Carmen Li's Plan to Build a Futures Market for Compute

Anjney Midha's Plan to Radically Lower the Price of Compute

Anjney Midha's Plan to Radically Lower the Price of Compute

Stripe's John Collison on How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape the Internet

Stripe's John Collison on How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape the Internet

Martin Wolf on the 'Terrifying' Superpower That the US Wields

Martin Wolf on the 'Terrifying' Superpower That the US Wields

Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

How Taiwan Became the World's Most Perilous Geopolitical Chokepoint

How Taiwan Became the World's Most Perilous Geopolitical Chokepoint

Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence

Understanding the Most Viral Chart in Artificial Intelligence

Google's Liz Reid on Who Will Own Search in a World of AI

Google's Liz Reid on Who Will Own Search in a World of AI

Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

Alex Imas on Why Economists Might Be Getting AI Wrong

War in Iran Is Already Reshaping East Asia's Energy Future

War in Iran Is Already Reshaping East Asia's Energy Future

The Big Macro Force That's Been Driving Stocks Higher for Years

The Big Macro Force That's Been Driving Stocks Higher for Years

Why NASA Hired a Chief Economist

Why NASA Hired a Chief Economist

Goldman CIO Marco Argenti on the Warp-Speed Improvements in AI

Goldman CIO Marco Argenti on the Warp-Speed Improvements in AI

David Shor and Byrne Hobart on the Politics of a White-Collar Wipeout

David Shor and Byrne Hobart on the Politics of a White-Collar Wipeout

Greg Brew on Surging Energy and the 'Strategic Trap' of the War in Iran

Greg Brew on Surging Energy and the 'Strategic Trap' of the War in Iran

War in Iran Is Redrawing the Map for Natural Gas

War in Iran Is Redrawing the Map for Natural Gas

What War in Iran Means for China's Teapot Oil Refineries

What War in Iran Means for China's Teapot Oil Refineries

Henry Blodget on the Software Selloff Hysteria and the Problem for OpenAI

Henry Blodget on the Software Selloff Hysteria and the Problem for OpenAI

How the Speed of a Trade Got Down to Nearly the Speed of Light

How the Speed of a Trade Got Down to Nearly the Speed of Light

James van Geelen on His Viral AI Doom Scenario

James van Geelen on His Viral AI Doom Scenario

Jamee Moudud on the Intellectual Roots of Zohranomics

Jamee Moudud on the Intellectual Roots of Zohranomics

This Is How The US Can Become a Player in Rare Earth Metals

This Is How The US Can Become a Player in Rare Earth Metals

The Surprising Similarity Between the US and Chinese Internets

The Surprising Similarity Between the US and Chinese Internets

How to Make Money From the Booming Demand for Energy

How to Make Money From the Booming Demand for Energy

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