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William Basinski - Experimental Composer

William Basinski is an American experimental composer. 

James Fallon - Memorial Show

James Fallon was a neuroscientist and author. Sadly, he passed away, but he was a frequent guest on the show, so please enjoy this memorial episode, a compilation of some of my favorite moments of his on the show.

William Deresiewicz - Solitude in Modern Life

William Deresiewicz is a former English professor at Yale, and the author of numerous books, including "The End of Solitude."

Kevin Knight - 2024 Election

Kevin Knight is the Chief of Staff of Congressman David Schweikert.

Jonathan Mann - Super-Forecaster

 Jonathan Mann is a security architect, a Good Judgment Super Forecaster, and a faculty member in the Computer Science department at NYU. He writes at https://abstraction.substack.com/

Michael Jelen - Replay, AI, Web3

Michael Jelen is the CEO of Replay, a web3 video streaming service.

Jan Swafford - George Gershwin

Jan Swafford is an American composer and the author of several musical biographies.

Thomas Barfield - Nomadic People

Thomas Barfield is an anthropologist at Boston University, and the author of several books, including The Nomadic Alternative.

Stuart Reid - Patrice Lumumba

Stuart Reid is an executive editor at Foreign Affairs, and the author of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination.

Robin Hanson - Health, AI and More

Robin Hanson is an economist at George Mason University. His Substack is Overcoming Bias, and he is the author of multiple books, including The Elephant in the Brain.