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Andrew Song: Global Cooling with Sulfur Dioxide in the Stratosphere — Manifold #91

Andrew Song is a co-founder of Make Sunsets, a company focused on addressing climate change through solar geoengineering.

Jul 31 •

Manifold Discord Channel: Live Q&A with Steve — Episode #90

Manifold has its own Discord channel!

Jul 17 •

Discord for Manifold

In the past few years I’ve had a number of fun meetups with Manifold listeners in places like SF, NYC, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai.

Jul 9 •

Omar Shams: AI Founder and Google AI Agent Lead — Manifold #89

Shams was trained in theoretical physics before becoming an AI engineer at DeepMind and founding the company Mutable, which was acquired by Google.

Jul 3 •

June 2025

Patrick McGee: Apple In China — Manifold #88

Patrick McGee is a longtime FT business reporter with extensive experience reporting on China.

Jun 19 •

GODZILLA DOWN! India-Pakistan Clash and Chinese Military Technology with TP Huang — Manifold #87

Steve and TP discuss the implications of the recent air battle between India and Pakistan, which involved over 100 fighter jets and took place entirely…

Jun 5 •

May 2025

Robots, Small Models, and RL with DeepSeek Alumnus Zihan Wang — Manifold #86

Zihan Wang is an AI researcher at Northwestern University, where he works on vision-language models, robotics, and reinforcement learning.

May 22 •

Dan Collins: Tariffs and the Future of US Manufacturing — Manifold #85

Dan Collins is Founder of Tyrell Chemical.

May 8 •

April 2025

Seeking Truth From Facts: AI, China, Tariffs, Geopolitics — Manifold #84

This episode is a co-release with the podcast Seeking Truth From Facts.

Apr 24 •

Incels, Evo Psych, and Modern Literature with ARX-Han - Manifold Episode 83

Steve speaks with ARX-Han, an anonymous writer, about his book "Incel."

Apr 10 •

March 2025

Callum Williams: Economics, AI, and Technological Progress — Manifold #82

Callum Williams is a senior economics writer for The Economist.

Mar 27 •

Misha Laskin, Reflection.ai — From Physics to SuperIntelligence, Manifold Episode 81

Misha Laskin is CEO of Reflection.ai. He was trained in theoretical physics at Yale and Chicago before becoming an AI scientist. He made important…

Mar 13 •

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