Forced vacations are a fraud control
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) reads his Bits About Money essay "Financial systems take a holiday" (originally published February 2024), prompted by a conversation with a prior guest about how even exchan...
17 Sep 28min
Everyone wants to be your wallet
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) reads his Bits About Money essay on the business of wallets, with new commentary, prompted by paying his barber $100 over Venmo and wondering why PayPal so badly wants to be...
3 Sep 33min
How AI detection actually works, with Pangram’s Max Spero
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Max Spero, co-founder and CEO of Pangram Labs, which builds models that identify AI-generated text and images. Max goes under the hood to explain how AI detecti...
27 Aug 1h 4min
Two banks can't agree on fourth-grade math | Alex Elliott
Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) is joined by Alex Elliott (@alexpotato), who has spent his career in SRE and operations roles at financial firms ranging from ten-person fintechs to global investment banks...
20 Aug 1h 3min
LLMs and the economics of Evil, Inc., with Manish Goregaokar
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Manish Goregaokar, a senior software engineer and member of the Rust security response team, to discuss what LLMs do to the cost side of running a sophisticated...
13 Aug 1h 2min
The economics of putting germicidal light in every room, with Misha Gurevich and Vivian Belenky of Aerolamp
In this episode, Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Misha Gurevich, CEO of Aerolamp, and Vivian Belenky, its chief scientist and a researcher at Columbia, to discuss why UVC, a wavelength of ligh...
6 Aug 1h 16min
Cheap cognition, supercharged surveillance, and AI risks, with Garrison Lovely
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Garrison Lovely, journalist and author of Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us and How to Stop It, to map the three-sided debate over ...
30 Jul 1h 20min
What you're actually getting paid in, with Leila Clark
In this episode, Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Leila Clark, founder of Stardrift and formerly a software engineer at Jane Street, to discuss her essay "What Are You Getting Paid In?" They c...
23 Jul 1h 4min
