Moment of Zen E6 with guests Flo Crivello, Amjad Masad, and Nathan Labenz
Episode 6 is the spiciest yet. We're assigning homework.
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The MoZ podcast is doing numbers, and episode 6 has been well received. Thanks for listening!
On the next episode of Moment of Zen we’ll have Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan joining us.
In the past few episodes, we’ve touched on a few concepts and articles that we’d like to further discuss in E7. Bookmark these links to deepen your understanding and join the conversation. Consider it homework.
Alana Newhouse’s article Brokenism in Tablet Magazine cuts to the core of our debate about reforming institutions vs building new ones.
Lindy, or the Lindy Effect, is a concept Nassim Nicholas Taleb popularized. “That which is Lindy”, Taleb writes, “is what ages in reverse” — “its life expectancy lengthens with time, conditional on survival”. Erik breaks down tradition and the Lindy Effect in this post.
Antonio has mentioned the French literary prize the Prix Goncourt more than a few times, as an illustration of a shared literary culture among French households — in contrast to the U.S. Read a fun, spicy history of the awards, which started in 1914, here.
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Episode 6 w/ guests Flo Crivello, Amjad Masad, and Nathan Labenz
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Show Notes (timestamps link to Youtube).
The episode begins with our guests offering their take on the AI moment. Nathan Labenz introduced a new podcast he launched with Erik, The Cognitive Revolution. The first episode is an interview with Playground AI’s Suhail Doshi - where we go deep with Suhail about the last several months building Playground AI and how the current AI breakthroughs have created machines that can speak human language, solve problems, and use tools.
Subscribe to the AI podcast The Cognitive Revolution: Apple | Spotify | Youtube and follow The Cognitive Revolution on Twitter
23:45 A discussion of AI’s effect on coding
34:40 Amjad believes AI is underhyped
53:15 What AI companies should VCs invest in?
1:06:00 Who will capture value, incumbents or startups?
1:14:30 At the core of this episode is a debate about AI and crypto
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