Tinkered Thinking on White Mirror
14 Nov 2025
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Tinkered Thinking is the pseudonym of the author behind White Mirror, a collection of stories that e...
Alec Nevala-Lee on Luis Alvarez
05 Nov 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks again with Alec Nevala-Lee. Arbesman previously hosted Neval...
Nick Foster on "Could Should Might Don’t"
29 Oct 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Nick Foster, a designer and futurist who has worked wit...
David Edmonds on Death in a Shallow Pond
22 Oct 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with David Edmonds, cohost of the Philosophy Bites podcast a...
Rohit Krishnan on Training AI to Write Better
15 Oct 2025
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n this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Rohit Krishnan, one of the most playful and insightful t...
Linda Liukas on Teaching Kids to Code Through Play
08 Oct 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Linda Liukas, author of the beloved Hello Ruby children...
Molly Mielke on What Makes a Founder Worth Betting On
01 Oct 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Molly Mielke. Despite her youth, Molly has already buil...
Daniel Temkin on Esoteric Programming Languages
24 Sep 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Daniel Temkin, a writer and artist working in the digit...
Parker Owens on Parker's Brick Builds
17 Sep 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Parker Owens, whose passion for Lego has grown into som...
Kristoffer Tjalve on The Internet Phone Book
10 Sep 2025
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Samuel Arbesman is joined once again by Kristoffer Tjalve. The two previously spoke about the poetic...
Edward Ashton on The Fourth Consort
03 Sep 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Edward Ashton. Edward Ashton is a science fiction write...
Neal Agarwal on neal.fun
27 Aug 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Neal Agarwal. Neal has been building online playthings ...
Julian Gough on the Evolution of Universes
20 Aug 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Julian Gough — a writer, musician, and now researcher...
Étienne Fortier-Dubois on Tech Trees
13 Aug 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Étienne Fortier-Dubois, a writer and programmer whose ...
Chris Ferrie on Writing "Quantum Physics for Babies"
06 Aug 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Chris Ferrie, an associate professor of quantum informa...
Evan Armstrong on Launching The Leverage and Rethinking Tech Media
30 Jul 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Evan Armstrong, the writer behind The Leverage, a newsl...
Gabe Henry on "Enough is Enuf"
23 Jul 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman sits down with writer Gabe Henry, whose latest book Enough is Enuf ...
Daryl Gregory on Simulation Theory and the Great American Glitch Tour
16 Jul 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman sits down with novelist Daryl Gregory, celebrated author of n...
Kenneth Stanley on the Disruptive Power of Open-Endedness
09 Jul 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Kenneth Stanley, a renowned computer scientist and AI r...
Clive Thompson on the Ramifications of “Vibe Coding”
02 Jul 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with journalist and author Clive Thompson. Known for his tho...
Alec Nevala-Lee on Buckminster Fuller
25 Jun 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman sits down with Alec Nevala-Lee, author of numerous books, including...
Eliot Peper on developing lore around AI agents
18 Jun 2025
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In this episode of The Orthogonal Bet, host Samuel Arbesman welcomes back return guest Eliot Peper. ...
Anna Gat on Building Interintellect’s Global Agora
11 Jun 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Anna Gat, founder and CEO of Interintellect. Descr...
Samuel Arbesman on The Magic of Code
10 Jun 2025
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It’s not every day that we get to fete the launch of a new book by one of our colleagues at Lux Ca...
Michael Rosen on Golems, Dybbuks & the Four Quadrants of AI
04 Jun 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Michael Rosen, a nonresident senior fellow at the ...
Nick Bowden on Building a Real World SimCity
28 May 2025
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In this episode of The Orthogonal Bet, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Nick Bowden, CEO of Replica—...
Lu Wilson on Art of Creative Coding
21 May 2025
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In this episode of The Orthogonal Bet, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Lu Wilson, a programmer and ...
Sara Walker on "Life As No One Knows It"
14 May 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Sara Imari Walker, a theoretical physicist and astrobio...
Peter Bebergal on the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons
07 May 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Peter Bebergal. Peter is a writer and the author of num...
Samantha John on Hopscotch the easy bake oven of code
30 Apr 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Samantha John, co-founder of Hopscotch—a delightful p...
Torie Bosch on the 26 Lines of Code That Changed the World
23 Apr 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman sits down with Torie Bosch—now an editor at STAT News and formerl...
Jason Crawford on The Techno-Humanist Manifesto
16 Apr 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Jason Crawford, a writer and thinker who explores the i...
John Hendrix on "The Mythmakers"
09 Apr 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with John Hendrix. John is a writer and illustrator whose wo...
Nadia Asparouhova on ANTIMEMETICS
02 Apr 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Nadia Asparouhova. Nadia is a writer and thinker who ex...
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang on REST & SHORTER
26 Mar 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Alex Pang, author of several influential books on rethi...
Lawrence Lundy-Bryan on how data-driven VC is over
19 Mar 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Lawrence Lundy-Bryan, a partner at the venture capital ...
Nadia Drake on The Arecibo Message our "Selfie of Humanity"
12 Mar 2025
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On November 16, 1974, the first message meant for the stars was broadcast into space, using a series...
Niko McCarty on Building Asimov Press and Writing for Ambitious Readers
05 Mar 2025
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In this episode of The Orthogonal Bet, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Niko McCarty, the founding e...
Dave Jilk on AI, Poetry, and the Future of AGI
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Dave Jilk. Dave is a tech entrepreneur and w...
Henry Oliver on Embracing Second Acts
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with the writer Henry Oliver. Henry is the author...
Dominic Falcao on How Deep Science Ventures Redefines Deep Tech Innovation
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Dominic Falcao, a founding director of Deep Scienc...
Max Bennett on A Brief History of Intelligence
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with writer, researcher, and entrepreneur Max Bennet...
Lev Grossman on The Role of Complexity in World-Building
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with novelist Lev Grossman. A longtime fan of Lev...
Alex Miller on The Wonders of Graph Paper and Algorithmic Art
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Alex Miller, a software developer and arti...
J. Doyne Farmer on Complexity Economics
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with J. Doyne Farmer, a physicist, complexity sci...
Tarin Ziyaee on Artificial Life and Robotic Evolution
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Tarin Ziyaee, a technologist and founder, ab...
Omar Rizwan on Connecting Online Communities to In-Person Programming
15 Feb 2025
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In this conversation, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Omar Rizwan, a programmer currently wor...
Eli Altman on The Art of Naming
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman Sam speaks with Eli Altman, the managing director of A H...
Alex Komoroske on How to Navigate Complexity Within a Large Organizations
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman Sam speaks with Alex Komoroske, a master of system...
Adrian Tchaikovsky on Bio Trajectories and the Importance of Long-Term Thinking
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Adrian Tchaikovsky, the celebrated novelist ...
John Strausbaugh on The Harsh Realities of the Soviet Space Program
15 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with John Strausbaugh, a former editor of New York Pres...
Michael Levin on Understanding Embodied Intelligence
14 Feb 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Michael Levin, a biologist and the Vannevar Bush ...
Laurel Schwulst on The Quest to Build the Fruitful Web
14 Feb 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Laurel Schwulst. Laurel operates within many role...
Eliot Peper on The Art of Cultivating Curiosity
14 Feb 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Eliot Peper. Eliot is a science fiction novelist ...
Hilary Mason on Building a Fractal Combinatorial Trope Machine
14 Feb 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Hilary Mason, co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door, a star...
Amy Kuceyeski on Using Computational Biology to Understand How the Brain Works
14 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Amy Kuceyeski, a mathematician and biologist...
What the Microsoft Outage Reveals about Complex Systems
14 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman delves into the recent CrowdStrike/Microsoft outage, providing...
Kristoffer Tjalve on The Poetic Web
14 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Kristoffer Tjalve. Kristoffer is hard to categoriz...
Alice Albrecht on What AI Can Learn from Human Cognition
14 Feb 2025
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In this episode, host Samuel Arbesman speaks with Alice Albrecht, the founder and CEO of Re...
Philip Ball on ‘How Life Works'
14 Feb 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Philip Ball, a science writer, and formerly a lon...
Ben Reinhardt on How to fund R&D that is for the public good?
14 Feb 2025
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In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Ben Reinhardt, an engineer, scientist, and the fo...
Chaim Gingold on SimCity, Maxis and the ambitious modeling of everything
14 Feb 2025
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In this episode, Sam speaks with game designer and researcher Chaim Gingold, the author of ...
Robin Sloan on His Epic Sci-Fi Novel Moonbound, Worldbuilding, and AI
11 Feb 2025
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In this episodeSam Arbesman speaks with Robin Sloan, novelist and writer and all-around fun thinker....
Introducing: The Orthogonal Bet
11 Feb 2025
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My name is Samuel Arbesman and this is my personal philosophy: The world is combinatorially weird an...