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Re: What podcasts are you listening to?

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Revisionist History - The recent Alabama Murders story was a super interesting look into the death penalty. The Colin & Samir show - interviews with Youtube creators. Recent John Johnson interview about doing stand up comedy for youtube was hilarious. Lsat 12 months I listened to lots of Peter Attia, for health and aging information but not listening to him anymore because I found the Epstein emails problematic. Late…

> Corecursive, because I'm making it. That's very cool. > Working on new episode about social media algorithms. Will it not just be mainly recommender algorithms? I.e., machine learning? Or do you have other specific algorithms in mind?

It will touch on EdgeRank, Youtube's next video selection and TikTok's innovations on that. And also on HNs post gravity.

But the big thing its about is how simple recommenders can lead to compelling and addictive consumption.

Re: What podcasts are you listening to?

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- North Star Podcast by David Perell (He stopped this, but I am finishing all the episodes. My favourite podcast.)

- How I write by David Perell

- Darknet diaries

- Syntax FM

- CoRecursive

- Under the radar

- Ladybug podcast (catching up on their old episodes. Glad to see they are back but haven't listened to their latest episodes.)

Re: What podcasts are you listening to?

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Conversations With Tyler: he tends to ask some of the most creative and interesting questions. For a specific episode recommendation, I really enjoyed "Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism". He also has an older interview with Paul Graham (pg), but I don't think the questions were as deep or challenging.

Dwarkesh Patel: he gets extremely high quality guests and he doesn't just roll over completely when the guest makes a claim, at least he's willing to ask follow-up questions. His guest lectures with Sarah Paine are outstanding for helping to contextualize your understanding of the world order of the past 100 years from an American perspective.

Wookash Podcast: very technical and focused on more advanced programming topics. For specific episode suggestions I suggest the recent ones with Anton Mikhailov where they talk about ~~ECS~~ arrays of things.

Two's Complement: a podcast by the guy who made the Godbolt Compiler Explorer. It doesn't release very frequently but it provides interesting perspectives. Just

Ezra Klein Show: this is one of the guys that wrote the Abundance book, which I think was a much-needed message. Most recently he had an interview with Clark from Anthropic, but it's from a fairly normie / non-AI-obsessed perspective.

I have to rant about podcasts:

My biggest issue with most podcasts is that it often feels like there's very little effort put into preparing for the discussion and there's not many interesting follow-up questions. I think you can challenge people's claims in good faith to make for more interesting discussions. At least ask some reasonable follow-up questions when the guest makes outrageous claims! A lot of podcasts are just an advertising platform for people to talk about their new book; if you can listen to a guest give the same conversation with a different host then that's probably a sign that the questions are bad and shallow, so you shouldn't keep listening to that podcast.

One of the issues with asking deeper questions is that anything truly interesting or new will probably require having thought about the topic a lot ahead of time. Otherwise you just end up getting a very shallow answer because people can't usually think through complex topics on the fly so the best you can hope for is to get a pre-cached or partially computed answer. It would be great to have a podcast dedicated to exploring more challenging and underexplored questions which are shared with guests ahead of time so both parties can have time to think and explore. Most famous people just go on podcasts to play their "greatest hits" without saying anything substantially different or new.

Re: What podcasts are you listening to?

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I’ve been rotating between a few distinct vibes lately: Latent Space: Absolutely essential for keeping up with the breakneck speed of LLMs and the actual engineering behind them. Hard Fork: Good for a high-level weekly pulse on tech policy and Silicon Valley shifts without being too dry. The Changelog: Still the gold standard for open-source deep dives. Also, if you’re into the 'local-first' movement we were discussing earlier, some of the older episodes of Software Engineering Daily regarding distributed systems are still incredibly relevant for today's edge-computing challenges.

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Maybe marginally related, I used to listen to a lot of podcasts, especially when I had a severe issue in my eye and I couldn't read. I used to listen to nonfiction, lifestyle, health, tech and history (I do not follow politics in podcasting). At least after the pandemic (ca. 2023) one thing that I noticed is that a lot of podcasts now has some rotation of the same guests, they are more tied with the world events (e.g…

Yeah, many podcasts are either: (1) an advertising platform for a guest's new book, (2) a platform for the guest to play their "greatest hits" without engaging critically or exploring new ideas, or (3) a platform for the host to tell you their half-baked opinion about $CURRENT_EVENT in order to keep the slop machine running.

Re: What podcasts are you listening to?

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Revisionist History - The recent Alabama Murders story was a super interesting look into the death penalty. The Colin & Samir show - interviews with Youtube creators. Recent John Johnson interview about doing stand up comedy for youtube was hilarious. Lsat 12 months I listened to lots of Peter Attia, for health and aging information but not listening to him anymore because I found the Epstein emails problematic. Late…

Colin and Samir have some really in-depth videos with MrBeast which help document and explain his rise in fame, influence, and prominence. He's one of the most dedicated optimizers of our time, and he's been responsible for shaping the YouTube meta for years at this point. At this point a significant portion of his brain is probably fully allocated towards optimizing for the most engaging YouTube videos possible. The "24 hours with MrBeast" video helped contextualize his fame to me, it's really rock-star level. It's a shame that not many people engage with him on a more technical level, I think he would have a lot of interesting insights over which to nerd out about.

Re: What podcasts are you listening to?

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The Adventure Zone, Hardcore History, The Rest is History, Fall of Civilisations, The All in Pod, Planet Money, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, Noclip Crewcast, The Retro Hour, The WAN Show and a bunch of podcasts in Spanish and Norwegian that I doubt anymore would care about.

Are there many podcasts in Spanish and Norwegian?

In Spanish tons and tons pick your country and flavor. In Norwegian many more than I expected. Some very good retro game ones that I enjoy.

Re: What podcasts are you listening to?

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Culture:

- The Slate Culture Gabfest - probably the most consistently fun podcast on my list. It's like sitting down at a table with your smartest friends from grad school to talk about movies, books, and music. The endorsements at the end are always good

- Switched on Pop

- If Books Could Kill

News/Current Events:

- Slate Political Gabfest

- Slate Money

- CBC World Report

- NPR Up First

History:

- Well, There's Your Problem - "a podcast about engineering disasters... with slides"

- The History of Rome

- Revolutions

- We're Not So Different

- The Fall of Civilizations

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