Manifold

Embryo Selection and Frontier Genomics with Dr. Alex Young – #111

07 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Alex Young, a statistical geneticist and assistant professor in the Human Genetics department at UCLA, joins Steve Hsu to discuss the cutting edge...

Iran War is the First Missile War (crossover with Seeking Truth From Facts podcast) – #110

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Steve and Alf discuss the Iran War, emphasizing what itreveals about modern missile and anti-missile technology, drones, andthe implications for a US-...

Dreamers and Doomers: Our AI future, with Richard Ngo – #109

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Ngo is an independent AI researcher and philosopher known forhis work on AGI safety and alignment. He recently resigned fromOpenAI, where he w...

China, Acceleration, and Nick Land - with Matt Southey – #108

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Southey is an editor for an AI safety organization. He wrote his PhD dissertation on the philosophy of Nick Land. Matt's "A Brief History of Acce...

Shenzhen is the Technology Capital of the World, with Taylor Ogan – #107

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live in Shenzhen with Taylor Ogan, the founder and CEO ofSnowbull Capital, which invests in Chinese technology companies.Taylor on X:https://...

AI DOOM: Jesse Hoogland of Timaeus

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second episode of our series based on interviews for the documentary film, Dreamers and Doomers, about the SF Bay Area in the last days be...

Dreamers and Doomers: Jeremy Nixon at AGI House – #105

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Nixon is a prominent AI researcher, entrepreneur, and the co-founder of AGI House, a leading "hacker house" community for artificial intelligen...

Industrial Maximalism and Its Discontents: Dan Wang on US-China Competition – # 104

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Links:Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Futurehttps://www.amazon.com/Breakneck-Chinas-Quest-Engineer-Future/dp/1324106034Dan's 2025 annual lett...

Geopolitics 2026, crossover with Seeking Truth From Facts podcast – #103

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Steve and Alf discuss geopolitical events of 2025 and what they expect in 2026.Links:Manifold episode with Han Feizi, Letter From Beijinghttps://www.m...

Polygenics and Machine SuperIntelligence; Billionaires, Philo-semitism, and Chosen Embryos – #102

01 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a two-part episode. The first ~30m covers the most important 2025 breakthroughs in polygenic embryo screening, while the second 30m focuses sp...

Theoretical Physics With Generative AI – #101

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

All but the last 20 minutes of this episode should be comprehensible to non-physicists.Steve explains where frontier AI models are in understanding fr...

Jeffrey Epstein, Israel, and Elite Power, with Murtaza Hussain – #100

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Murtaza Hussain is a reporter for Drop Site News, which has brokenimportant stories based on recently obtained Epstein emails. Hussainreports that Eps...

Jian Lian on China's Industrial Policy and Global Strategy – #99

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jian Lian is an expert on China's political economy, industrial development, and technological development. He graduated from Peking University with a...

Scott Horton on the Russia Hoax and Ukraine War – #98

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Horton is the author of Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. Horton is a libertarian an...

AIs Win Math Olympiad Gold: Prof. Lin Yang (UCLA) – #97

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lin Yang is a professor of computer science at UCLA. Recently, he and his collaborator built an AI pipeline using commercial models such as Gemini, Ch...

The Global AI Race: Z.ai and the View from Beijing — #96

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Zixuan Li is Director of Product and genAI Strategy at Z.ai. He was educated at Renmin and Tsinghua University in China, and at MIT and Carnegie Mello...

Seeking Truth From Facts: Weeks Where Decades Happen — #95

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a co-release with the Seeking Truth From Facts podcast: https://substack.com/@seekingtruthfromfactsThe theme of this episode derives f...

Kyle Chan on the Future of US-China Competition — #94

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle Chan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Sociology at Princeton University. His research focuses on industrial policy, clean tec...

Joleen Liang: 40M+ kids educated by adaptive AI — #93

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Joleen Liang is Co-founder of Squirrel AI, which pioneered adaptive learning at scale, first in China and now in the US. By 2021 its technology ha...

Max Dama on HFT: Millisecond Algos and Bid/Ask Dynamics — #92

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Max Dama is the co-chairman of Headlands Technologies LLC, a global quantitative proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Ne...

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

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

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

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Manifold has its own Discord channel!  https://discord.gg/dvcHS6NXThe purpose of the channel is to create a community of listeners with shared intere...

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

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

Patrick McGee: Apple In China — #88

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick McGee is a longtime FT business reporter with extensive experience reporting on China. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Apple in China...

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

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

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

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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

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

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Collins is Founder of Tyrell Chemical. He studied at Tsinghua University and spent 20 years working for companies like General Motors in China, he...

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

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a co-release with the podcast Seeking Truth From Facts: https://seekingtruthfromfacts.substack.com/(00:00) - Introduction (01:11) - Ch...

Incels, Evo Psych, and Modern Literature with ARX-Han — #83

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Steve speaks with ARX-Han, an anonymous writer, about his book "Incel."(00:00) - Introduction (02:09) - Discussing the Novel 'Incel' (06:08) - Charact...

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

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Callum Williams is a senior economics writer for The Economist. He was educated at Oxford, Harvard, and Cambridge, and is the author of The Classical ...

Misha Laskin, Reflection.ai — From Physics to SuperIntelligence

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 con...

Taylor Ogan, Snow Bull Capital: China's tech frontier, the view from Shenzhen, Part 2

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Taylor Ogan is Chief Executive Officer of Snow Bull Capital, based in Shenzhen, China. His firm invests in Chinese technology companies, with a focus ...

Ken Liu: Art in the Age of AI — #79

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his novel translations and o...

US-PRC Tech War: DeepSeek AI and 6th Generation Fighters — #78

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

(00:00) - Introduction: AI, Miltech, and Balance of Power (00:32) - DeepSeek AI R1 model (02:36) - DeepSeek: top performance, 30x efficient compute (1...

Jim Haslam: Covid Origins and Coronavirus Genetic Engineering — #77

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Relevant links:Jim Haslam on X: https://x.com/jhas5Jim's Substack: https://jimhaslam.substack.com/Jim's book, "COVID-19: Mystery Solved," on Amazon: h...

Joscha Bach: Consciousness and AGI — #76

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joscha Bach is a German cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher known for his work on cognitive architectures, artificial intelligence, me...

Adventures in Physics, Trump, and more, with the Information Theory podcast — #75

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is an interview I did with the new podcast Information Theory. The host of Information Theory is an anonymous technologist trained in phy...

Pascal Lottaz: Neutrality, Geopolitics, and International Conflict — #74

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pascal Lottaz is Associate Professor at Kyoto University’s Faculty of Law & HakubiCenter. His research area is Neutrality Studies - the study of...

Letter from Shanghai: Reflections on China in 2024 — #73

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

(00:00) - Overview: 3 weeks in China (02:33) - The China knowledge problem: Grappling with Reality (06:54) - Physics seminars in Shanghai and Beijing ...

Letter from Beijing, with Han Feizi — #72

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Han Feizi is the pseudonym of a columnist for Asia Times, who covers the Chinese economy, technology, and US-China competition. The author lives in Be...

Seeking Truth From Facts: Israel and Iran, Missile Defense, China Economic Development

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a crossover episode with the Seeking Truth From Facts podcast. (00:00) - Iranian missile attack vs Israel and missile defense (13:10) - Is th...

Samo Burja: Intellectuals, Culture. and the Technosphere — #70

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Samo Burja founded Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm that investigates the political and institutional landscape of society. He is a Senior Researc...

Deus Ex Machina: A Man, Machines, and God

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a crossover episode in which https://x.com/loubohan interviews me for his podcast Deus Ex Machina.I was obviously in an exuberant mood for thi...

Seeking Truth From Facts: Alf & Steve Hsu — #68

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a crossover episode in which Alf of the Seeking Truth from Facts podcast interviews Steve Hsu about the Chinese economy and political system, ...

Letter from Reykjavik: Genomics, Chess, Hyperscaling genAI, and Quantum Black Holes — #67

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is a short episode recorded at the end of a trip to Caltech (LA), Frankfurt, and Reykjavik.Black hole information and replica wormholes at Caltec...

Robin Hanson: Prediction Markets, the Future of Civilization, and Polymathy — #66

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Hanson is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He has worked in a variety of fields, including Physics, AI, Economics, and Futur...

China Today: Myths and Realities — #65

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Steve discusses China myths and realities with Victor, a tech founder who ran a company in Beijing for 7 years. Among the topics covered: economic gro...

Ivy League Anonymous: Great Awokening and Campus Radicals — #64

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier episode, Harvard Veritas:https://www.manifold1.com/episodes/harvard-veritas-interview-with-a-recent-graduate-anonymous-18Chapter markers:(00:0...

AI Global Odyssey: REAL Situational Awareness — #63

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Steve talks about AI in light of his recent travels to SF, Singapore, Manila, Berkeley, and Silicon Valley.Chapters:(00:00) - Overview: SF, Singapore,...

Philippe Lemoine: Bad Covid Science, Ukraine Analysis, and Philosophy — #62

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Philippe Lemoine is a PhD candidate at Cornell University in philosophy and a widely-read public intellectual. We discuss philosophy, the scientific r...

John Seo: Catastrophe Bonds and the Investor Choice Problem — Manifold #61

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr John Seo is co-founder and a managing director at Fermat Capital Management, LLC. He has over 30 years’ experience in fixed income bond and deriv...

Molson Hart: China and Amazon, Up Close — #60

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Molson Hart is the CEO of Viahart, an educational toy company. He has deep experience selling products manufactured in China, using Amazon and other p...

Jaan Tallinn: AI Risks, Investments, and AGI — #59

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jaan Tallinn is a billionaire computer programmer and investor. He was a co-founder of Skype, and has invested in companies like DeepMind and Anthropi...

Glenn Luk: China’s economic evolution, GDP, and high speed rail — #58

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Glenn Luk has worked as an investment banker, private equity investor, and startup founder. He has closely analyzed aspects of the Chinese economy, in...

Casey Handmer: Terraform Industries and a carbon-neutral future — #57

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Casey Handmer (PhD, Caltech, general relativity) is the founder of Terraform Industries. He is one of the most capable and ambitious geo-engineers on ...

Russell Clark: Japan, China, and USD reserve status — #56

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Russell Clark is a hedge fund investor who has lived and worked in both Japan and China. He writes the widely followed Substack Capital Flows and Asse...

Stephen Grugett: Predicting the Future with Manifold Markets — #55

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Grugett is the co-founder of Manifold Markets, the world's largest prediction market platform where people bet on politics, tech, sports, and ...

Ray McGovern: CIA, JFK, Deep State, and Ukraine Crisis — #54

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Raymond McGovern is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst, serving from 1963 to 1990. His CIA career began under President John F. Kenned...

Lecture: Fermi Paradox, AI, Simulation Question — #53

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Steve discusses DNA and the origin of life on Earth, the Fermi Paradox (is there alien life?), AI and its implications for the Simulation Question: co...

Utah AG Sean Reyes: “Sound of Freedom” and Human Trafficking — #52

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Reyes is Utah’s Attorney General and a producer for the movie “Sound of Freedom.” Steve and Sean discuss his personal story, human traffick...

Military Technology and U.S.-China War in the Pacific — #51

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

TP Huang returns for the third time to discuss the US-China strategic competition in terms of military technology.Previous episodes with TP include:Ch...

Louis-Vincent Gave: Understanding China’s Economy, and U.S. Competition — #50

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Louis-Vincent Gave of Gavekal discusses China's economic growth, its focus on education, and the global implications of its economic and political pol...

Charles Miller: Satellite Technology and the Future of Mobile Connectivity — #49

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Miller is co-founder and CEO of Lynk. He is a serial space entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in the space industry.Lynk - https://lynk....

China's EV Market Dominance and the Challenges Facing Tesla — #48

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

TP Huang is a computer scientist and analyst of global technology development. He posts often on X: https://twitter.com/tphuang.0:00 Introduction2:21 ...

Taylor Ogan, Snow Bull Capital: China's tech frontier, the view from Shenzhen — #47

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Taylor Ogan is Chief Executive Officer of Snow Bull Capital, based in Shenzhen, China.Follow him on X @TaylorOgan.Steve and Taylor discuss: 0:00 Intr...

Bharat Karnad: India geostrategy, nuclear arsenal, and assassination of Homi Bhabha, the Oppenheimer of India — #46

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bharat Karnad is an Emeritus Professor in National Security Studies at the Center for Policy Research in Delhi. He was a member of India's first Natio...

Yasheng Huang: China's Examination System and its impact on Politics, Economy, Innovation — #45

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Yasheng Huang is the Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His new book is The Rise and...

Huawei and the US-China Chip War — #44

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

TP Huang is a computer scientist and analyst of global technology development. He posts often on X: https://twitter.com/tphuang.Steve and TP discuss:0...

Meritocracy, SAT Scores, and Laundering Prestige at Elite Universities — #43

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Steve discusses 10 key graphs related to meritocracy and university admissions. Predictive power of SATs and other factors in elite admissions decisio...

Aella: Sex Work, Sex Research, and Data Science — #42

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Aella is a sex worker, sex researcher, and data scientist.Aella on X: https://twitter.com/Aella_GirlInterviews with ex-prostitutes on the pimp life (L...

AI on your phone? Tim Dettmers on quantization of neural networks — #41

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Dettmers develops computationally efficient methods for deep learning. He is a leader in quantization: coarse graining of large neural networks to...

Paul Huang, the real situation in Taiwan: politics, military, China — #40

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Huang is a journalist and research fellow with the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation. He is currently based in Taipei, Taiwan.Sample articles:Taiw...

Richard Hanania & Rob Henderson: The Rise of Wokeness and the Influence of Civil Rights Law — #39

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Hsu, Richard Hanania, and Rob Henderson were scheduled for a June 2023 panel as part of the University of Austin (UATX) Forbidden Courses series...

Richard Sander (UCLA Law) on the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling — #38

01 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.Steve and Richard discuss the recent Sup...

AI Cambrian Explosion: Conversation With Three AI Engineers — #37

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Steve talks to three AI engineers from his startup SuperFocus.AI.0:00 Introduction1:06 The Google memo and open-source AI 14:41 Spar...

David Goldman: US-China Competition, AI, Electric Vehicles, and Manufacturing — #36

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

David Paul Goldman is an American economic strategist and author, best known for his series of online essays in the Asia Times under the pseudonym Spe...

Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models: Oxford Lecture — #35

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode is based on a lecture Steve gave to an audience of theoretical physicists at Oxford University. The topic is artificial intelligen...

Simone Collins: IVF, Embryo Selection, Dating on the Spectrum, and Pronatalism — #34

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In collaboration with her husband Malcolm Collins, Simone is an author (The Pragmatist's Guide to Life, Relationships, Sexuality, Governance, and Craf...

Katherine Dee: Culture, Identity, and Isolation in the Digital Age — #33

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Katherine Dee is a writer, journalist, and internet historian.Steve and Katherine discuss:0:00 Introduction1:15 Katherine’s early life and backgroun...

Marc Martinez: "Dream Big" and the Golden Age of Bodybuilding — #32

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Marc Martinez is the director of Dream Big, a documentary about Gold's Gym and the golden age of bodybuilding in Venice and Santa Monica in the 1970s....

Gilles Saint-Paul: The Yellow Vests, French Politics, and Hypergamy — #31

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gilles Saint-Paul is Professeur à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in Engineering and received his PhD from MIT i...

Bing vs. Bard, US-China STEM Competition, and Embryo Screening — #30

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Steve discusses the competition between Microsoft and Google, the competition between the U.S. and China in STEM, China’s new IVF policy, and a Scie...

ChatGPT, LLMs, and AI — #29

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Steve discusses Large Language Model AIs such as ChatGPT. 0:00 How do LLMs work?10:22 Impact of ChatGPT15:21 AI landscape24:13 Hallucination and Focu...

Dominic Cummings: Vote Leave, Brexit, COVID, and No. 10 with Boris — #28

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dominic Cummings is a major historical figure in UK politics. He helped save the Pound Sterling, led the Vote Leave campaign, Got Brexit Done, and gui...

Sahil Lavingia: Founding Gumroad, The Minimalist Entrepreneur, and our AI LLM future — #27

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sahil Lavingia founded Gumroad at the age of 19 and built it into a leading digital commerce platform. He is the author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur...

Geoffrey Miller: Evolutionary Psychology, Polyamorous Relationships, and Effective Altruism — #26

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Geoffrey Miller is an American evolutionary psychologist, author, and a professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico. He is known for his r...

Anna Krylov: The Politicization of Science in Academia — #25

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anna I. Krylov (Russian: Анна Игоревна Крылова) is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California (USC), working...

Abdel Abdellaoui: Genetics, Psychiatric Traits, and Educational Attainment — #24

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Abdel Abdellaoui is Assistant Professor of Genetics in the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam.Abdel Abdellaoui is a gene...

Richard Sander on SCOTUS Oral Arguments: Affirmative Action and Discrimination against Asian Americans at Harvard and UNC

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.Sander has studied the structure and eff...

Discovering the Multiverse: Quantum Mechanics and Hugh Everett III, with Peter Byrne — #22

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Byrne is an investigative reporter and science writer based in Northern California. His popular biography, The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III -...

Jeffrey Sachs: Lessons from the COVID Commission, Lab Leak Questions, and Nord Stream — #21

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development. Profe...

Rob Henderson: A Journey from Foster Care to the US Military to Elite Academia — #20

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Henderson grew up in foster homes in California, joined the Air Force at 17, attended Yale on the G.I. Bill, and is currently a Gates Fellow at Ca...

Lyle Goldstein on U.S. Strategic Challenges: Russia, China, Ukraine, and Taiwan — #19

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Lyle Goldstein recently retired after 20 years of service on the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (NWC). During his career at NWC, he f...

Harvard Veritas: interview with a recent graduate (anonymous) — #18

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The guest for this episode is a recent graduate of Harvard College, now pursuing a STEM PhD at another elite university. We have withheld his identity...

Richard Lowery: The War for American Universities — #17

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Lowery is a professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. In this conversation, he describes the ...

Tim Palmer (Oxford): Status and Future of Climate Modeling — #16

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Palmer is Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, and a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin Institute.He is interested in the predicta...

Kishore Mahbubani: A Nuanced View of Asia & China's Rise — #15

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kishore Mahbubani is Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.  Kishore enjoyed two distinct careers: i...

Greg Clark: Genetics and Social Mobility — #14

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gregory Clark is Distinguished Professor of Economics at UC-Davis. He is an editor of the European Review of Economic History, chair of the steering c...

John Mearsheimer: Great Powers, U.S. Hegemony, and the Rise of China — #13

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This interview with John Mearsheimer was conducted in 2020 on the original Manifold podcast with Corey Washington and Steve Hsu. Parts of the conversa...

Theodore A. Postol: Nuclear Weapons, Missile Technology, and U.S. Diplomacy — #12

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Theodore A. Postol is professor emeritus of Science, Technology, and International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is widely...