These are short, spoken reflections in the spirit of Montaigne, on judgment, folly, and daily life to science, history, and society. Each entry links to its own recording. You can browse them by theme below.
a couple of the sound clips with the TV in the background are pretty silly, but I was just getting started.
Tech
#1-[tech.ai]-Why the Attention Mechanism May Be the Last Big Innovation for Data-Driven AI
#9-[tech.ai]-Why Worrying About a Singularity is Stupid
#3-[tech.ai]-Why We Imagine Future AI Falling In Love, But Never Converting To Religion
#4-[tech]-Why Tech Leaders Insist They Can See the Future
#6-[tech.ai]-Why LLMs Are a Terrible Candidate for AGI
#7-[tech.battery.ai]-Why Challenges To Improving Batteries Reveals a Deep Problem with “AI-driven science”
#12-[tech.ai]-On the Evasive Response Pattern of GPT-5
History
#18-[history]-On Water Games in the Ancient Roman Coliseum Never Happening
Personal
#8-[personal]-Risk Is At The Center Of Everything
Science
#16-[science.nature]-On First Domesticating
#5-[science]-Why Aliens Will Never Visit Our
Social
#2-[social.psych]-On Trapped Social Scripts
#10-[social.psych]-On the Inability to Acknowledge Someone Sitting Beside You in Public
#11-[social.psych]-On Why We Feel Bad Walking In and Out of a Business Without Making a Purchase
#13-[social.psych]-On Knowing When To Complain About Service
#14-[social]-On the Tradeoff Between Rewatching and First Watching a Movie
#17-[social.criminal]-On Serial Killers Having No Conscience
#15-[social]-When People In Conversation Pronounce the Same Word Differently
