Ryan Sean Adams

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4,484 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 14 May

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David and I read a paper and a thread corresponding to that paper.

It's called The Simple Economics of AGI.

And one of the writers of that paper is on the podcast today.

His name is Christian Catalini.

He's an economist.

He is an MIT scientist.

Fun fact, David, he was actually one of the creators of the original Diem project over at Facebook.

Do you remember that?

We just interviewed him.

He's been in cryptocurrency for over a decade.

In fact, about 10 years ago, he wrote a paper called Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain.

So he was all over crypto when it was new, and now he's coming back to AI, talking about economics yet again.

Really important episode.

I think it's on everyone's mind.

The core argument of this paper is that the scarce resource is no longer intelligence, the things between our ears, our brains.

It's verification and the human capacity to check on AI and its output.

There's a lot of implications following from that idea.

So let's get right to the episode.

But before we do, I want to thank the sponsors that made this possible.

Some exciting news.

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