The a16z Podcast discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future – especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This podcast is produced by Andreessen Horowitz (aka “a16z”), a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Multiple episodes are released every week; visit a16z.com for more details and to sign up for our newsletters and other content as well!
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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
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Conversations with the best investors and business leaders in the world. We explore their ideas, methods, and stories to help you better invest your time and money. Hear stock market and boardroom insights you can't find anywhere else. If you're a professional investor, CEO, entrepreneur, or business strategist, this is for you. Explore all our episodes and learn more at https://www.joincolossus.com
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The Nonlinear Library allows you to easily listen to top EA and rationalist content on your podcast player. We use text-to-speech software to create an automatically updating repository of audio content from the EA Forum, Alignment Forum, LessWrong, and other EA blogs. To find out more, please visit us at nonlinear.org
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Best friends Joel and Matt are the co-hosts of How to Money which is all about providing the knowledge & tools that normal folks need to thrive in areas like debt payoff, DIY investing, and crucial money tricks that will provide continuous help along your journey. We believe that access to unbiased and jargon-free personal finance guidance is more necessary than ever before. When you handle your money in a purposeful, thoughtful way that works for your lifestyle, you can really start living ...
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This podcast from Boston Consulting Group looks around the corner of today’s big business and social issues. The goal–the so what–is to make sense of today and prepare busy leaders and executives for the day after tomorrow. Award-winning British journalist Georgie Frost interviews the leading thinkers and doers at BCG on the trends, developments, and ideas that will shape and disrupt the future. Topics range from global warming, COVID-19, business resilience, and social inequity to the influ ...
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16 Minutes on the News is a short news podcast where we cover the top headlines of the week, the a16z podcast way -- why are these topics in the news; what's real, what's hype from our vantage point; and what are our experts' quick takes on these trends? About the a16z Podcast: Discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future -- especially as ‘software eats the world’. It features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers and voices from around the world. This ...
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The Technium is a weekly podcast discussing the edge of technology and what we can build with it. Each week, Sri and Wil introduce a big idea in the future of computing and extrapolate the effect it will have on the world.
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a16z Live is the place to listen to recorded live discussions and events featuring, hosted, or co-hosted by a16z partners (with outside voices too). As a reminder, all content posted here is provided for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon as legal, business, investment, or tax advice. Views expressed are those of the individuals and not the views of Andreessen Horowitz, please see a16z.com/disclosures for more. To learn more about the broader a16z Podcast network and ...
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The Hardware Entrepreneur


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The Hardware Entrepreneur
Balint Horvath: Entrepreneur, Innovation Specialist, Engineer/Physicist
“Software eats the world”, as one famous investor once said it. However, our Earth runs on resources and is based on atoms rather than bits. Our true progress therefore depends mainly on our producing, selling innovative physical products, that is hardware. Hardware is...different. Challenges abound in designing, manufacturing, getting funding, hiring, innovating, delivering to the customers. Resources are scattered around and only a few exist. Where do you get real, practical knowledge? Thi ...
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We scale and start amazing new ventures - Supercharging start-ups & entrepreneurs by unlocking the power of corporates. @thebakeryldn thebakery.com
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Gender diversity are buzz words these days– And paradoxically, this is a problem in the fields of science, technology, arts, humanities or medicine. A Hashtag #genderdiversity on social media is used for everything from issues like salary disparity, lack of women in a position of power, navigating career and motherhood to sexual harassment – These are definitely important issues to address. But the need for more women in science, humanities goes beyond issues of just equality and morals. Hi, ...
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LW - The ants and the grasshopper by Richard Ngo
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The ants and the grasshopper, published by Richard Ngo on June 4, 2023 on LessWrong.One winter a grasshopper, starving and frail, approaches a colony of ants drying out their grain in the su…
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LW - Announcing AISafety.info's Write-a-thon (June 16-18) and Second Distillation Fellowship (July 3-October 2) by steven0461
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Announcing AISafety.info's Write-a-thon (June 16-18) and Second Distillation Fellowship (July 3-October 2), published by steven0461 on June 3, 2023 on LessWrong.Stampy’s AI Safety Info is an…
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LW - The Control Problem: Unsolved or Unsolvable? by Remmelt
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Control Problem: Unsolved or Unsolvable?, published by Remmelt on June 2, 2023 on LessWrong.td;lr No control method exists to safely contain the global feedback effects of self-sufficien…
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EA - A Double Feature on The Extropians by Maxwell Tabarrok
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A Double Feature on The Extropians, published by Maxwell Tabarrok on June 4, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Link-post for two pieces I just wrote on the Extropians.The Extropians were …
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EA - Podcast Interview with David Thorstad on Existential Risk, The Time of Perils, and Billionaire Philanthropy by Nick Anyos
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Podcast Interview with David Thorstad on Existential Risk, The Time of Perils, and Billionaire Philanthropy, published by Nick Anyos on June 4, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I have re…
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AF - How to Think About Activation Patching by Neel Nanda
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How to Think About Activation Patching, published by Neel Nanda on June 4, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum.This is an excerpt from my post on attribution patching, that I think is of more gen…
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LW - A Double-Feature on The Extropians by Maxwell Tabarrok
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A Double-Feature on The Extropians, published by Maxwell Tabarrok on June 3, 2023 on LessWrong.Link-post for two pieces I just wrote on the Extropians.The Extropians were an online group of …
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LW - The AGI Race Between the US and China Doesn’t Exist. by Eva B
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The AGI Race Between the US and China Doesn’t Exist., published by Eva B on June 3, 2023 on LessWrong.When I write “China”, I refer to the political and economic entity, the People’s Republi…
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EA - EA and Longtermism: not a crux for saving the world by ClaireZabel
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EA and Longtermism: not a crux for saving the world, published by ClaireZabel on June 3, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This is partly based on my experiences working as a Program Offi…
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EA - Large Study Examining the Effects of Cash Transfer Programs on Population-Level Mortality Rates by nshaff3r
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Large Study Examining the Effects of Cash Transfer Programs on Population-Level Mortality Rates, published by nshaff3r on June 3, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.The study was published…
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LW - A mind needn't be curious to reap the benefits of curiosity by So8res
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A mind needn't be curious to reap the benefits of curiosity, published by So8res on June 2, 2023 on LessWrong.Context: Stating a point that is obvious in local circles, but that I regularly …
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EA - Applications open for AI Safety Fundamentals: Governance Course by Jamie Bernardi
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Applications open for AI Safety Fundamentals: Governance Course, published by Jamie Bernardi on June 2, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.We are looking for people who currently or might …
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LW - Co-found an incubator for independent AI Safety researchers by Alexandra Bos
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Co-found an incubator for independent AI Safety researchers, published by Alexandra Bos on June 2, 2023 on LessWrong.Full-time, remoteAPPLY HEREDeadline: Thursday, June 8th (in your timezone…
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AF - [Replication] Conjecture's Sparse Coding in Toy Models by Hoagy
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: [Replication] Conjecture's Sparse Coding in Toy Models, published by Hoagy on June 2, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum.SummaryIn the post Taking features out of superposition with sparse autoe…
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EA - Lincoln Quirk has joined the EV UK board by Howie Lempel
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Lincoln Quirk has joined the EV UK board, published by Howie Lempel on June 2, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I’m excited to share that Lincoln Quirk has joined the board of Effective …
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LW - Dreams of "Mathopedia" by NicholasKross
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Dreams of "Mathopedia", published by NicholasKross on June 2, 2023 on LessWrong.In high school, I held up a pretty-decent-level calculus class because I was confused about something. Specifi…
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Today’s episode is with Magi Richani, founder and CEO of Nobell Foods. She is joined by a16z Bio + Health general partner Vijay Pande. Together, they talk about the details of engineering plants to create the future of food, why Nobell started with soybeans to produce their cheese, and her dream of finding a cheese pizza—with Nobell cheese—at any p…
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Friday Flight - Payments UNpaused, CD Laddering, & Caseless Crazies #678
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Time for a Friday Flight- our sampling of the week’s financial news and what it means for your personal finances. There are a lot of headlines out there, but we boil it down to specific takeaways that will allow you to kick off the weekend informed and help you to get ahead with your money. In this episode we explain some relevant and helpful stori…
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: An Earn to Learn Pledge, published by Ben West on June 2, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.tl;dr: create an equivalent of GWWC for building career capital. We've thought about this idea …
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LW - Think carefully before calling RL policies "agents" by TurnTrout
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Think carefully before calling RL policies "agents", published by TurnTrout on June 2, 2023 on LessWrong.I think agentic systems represent most of AI extinction risk. I want to think clearly…
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AF - Think carefully before calling RL policies "agents" by Alex Turner
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Think carefully before calling RL policies "agents", published by Alex Turner on June 2, 2023 on The AI Alignment Forum.I think agentic systems represent most of AI extinction risk. I want t…
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LW - Uncertainty about the future does not imply that AGI will go well by Lauro Langosco
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Uncertainty about the future does not imply that AGI will go well, published by Lauro Langosco on June 1, 2023 on LessWrong.Subtitle: A partial defense of high-confidence AGI doom prediction…
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LW - Yudkowsky vs Hanson on FOOM: Whose Predictions Were Better? by 1a3orn
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Yudkowsky vs Hanson on FOOM: Whose Predictions Were Better?, published by 1a3orn on June 1, 2023 on LessWrong.TLDRStarting in 2008, Robin Hanson and Eliezer Yudkowsky debated the likelihood …
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LW - Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities by jenn
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities, published by jenn on June 1, 2023 on LessWrong.From late 2020 to last month, I worked at grassroots-level non-profits in…
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LW - Change my mind: Veganism entails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes by Elizabeth
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Change my mind: Veganism entails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes, published by Elizabeth on June 1, 2023 on LessWrong.IntroductionTo me, it is obvious that veganism introduces chal…
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EA - Probably tell your friends when they make big mistakes by Chi
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Probably tell your friends when they make big mistakes, published by Chi on June 1, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Big mistakes = Doing something that is actively harmful or useless by…
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