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Scientific Irrationality with Michael Strevens [Idea Machines #43]
Professor Michael Strevens discusses the line between scientific knowledge and everything else, the contrast between what scientists as people do and the formalized process of science, why Kuhn and Po...
18 Jan 20221h 3min
Distributing Innovation with The VitaDAO Core Team [Idea Machines #42]
A conversation with the VitaDAO core team. VitaDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization — or DAO — that focuses on enabling and funding longevity research. The sketch of how a DAO works is that ...
2 Jan 20221h 13min
The Nature of Technology with Brain Arthur [Idea Machines #41]
Dr. Brian Arthur and I talk about how technology can be modeled as a modular and evolving system, combinatorial evolution more broadly and dig into some fascinating technological case studies that inf...
3 Okt 20211h 54min
Philosophy of Progress with Jason Crawford [Idea Machines #40]
In this Conversation, Jason Crawford and I talk about starting a nonprofit organization, changing conceptions of progress, why 26 years after WWII may have been what happened in 1971, and more. Jason ...
29 Sep 202146min
Fusion, Planning, Programs, and Politics with Stephen Dean [Idea Machines #39]
In this conversation, Dr. Stephen Dean talks about how he created the 1976 US fusion program plan, how it played out and the history of fusion power in the US, technology program planning and manageme...
30 Aug 20211h 7min
Policy, TFP, and airshiPs with Eli Dourado [Idea Machines #38]
Eli Dourado on how the sausage of technology policy is made, the relationship between total factor productivity and technological progress, airships, and more. Eli is an economist, regulatory hacker, ...
27 Juli 20211h 6min
In the Realm of the Barely Feasible with Arati Prabhakar [Idea Machines #37]
In this conversation I talk to the Amazing Arati Prabhakar about using Solutions R&D to tackle big societal problems, gaps in the innovation ecosystem, DARPA, and more. Arati's career has covered almo...
25 Jan 202153min
Shaping Research by Changing Context with Ilan Gur [Idea Machines #36]
In this conversation I talk to Ilan Gur about what it really means for technology to "escape the lab", the power of context to shape the usefulness of research, the inadequacies of current institution...
18 Dec 20201h 11min
