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Watching
Videos and podcasts I keep recommending to people, collected here so I can just send a link.
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Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams Brick walls show you how badly you want it. The rest is how you play the hand.
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Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Biology under the behavior. Once you see the stack, people make more sense, and less.
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AlphaGo — The Movie The documentary about AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol. Move 37, move 78, and what it looks like when a machine surprises the people who built it.
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LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching Obsession as a skill. Strange hobbies are usually the honest ones.
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The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens? (1/2) The quiet question that refuses to get small: where is everybody?
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The Fermi Paradox II — Solutions and Ideas Answers that feel like doors. Most of them open onto colder rooms.
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China’s Van Goghs: The Village That Paints Thousands Of Fakes A Year Craft at scale blurs what “real” means. Copies that still take a hand.
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Spies, Smugglers, and How a Bitter Plant Became the World’s Favorite Drink
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We're Not Ready for Superintelligence The possibilities are infinite. The ones we want are limited.
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Mid-Century Modern in St. Louis — Nine PBS Special -
The strongest arguments for and against the existence of God — Alex O’Connor -
Hey Vsauce, Does Anything Exist? -
The Truth About The AI Bubble -
You have no free will at all — Robert Sapolsky -
The World's Most Important Machine -
Are AI Humanoid Robots a Bubble? What K-Scale Knows that Elon Doesn’t -
Building Anthropic — A conversation with our co-founders -
The Real Impact of the Silk Road -
Nobel Minds 2025 -
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's Vision for the Future -
How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain? -
Free Climbing in Greenland — Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold -
Exploring the Magic of India with David Blaine — Do Not Attempt -
The Stanford Prison Experiment -
What Did Ilya See? -
Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse -
How The Opium Trade Destroyed China’s Greatest Empire -
Optimistic Nihilism -
MIT AGI: Building machines that see, learn, and think like people — Josh Tenenbaum