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Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

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Dialectic with Jackson Dahl

@DialecticPod

Conversational portraits of original people by @jacksondahl. bit.ly/DLCTspot youtube.com/@Dialectic apple.co/4hpS4U7 jdahl.substack.com

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Jul 29
53: Zhengdong Wang - Feeling the Wave
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Jackson Dahl
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Jul 29
Dialectic 53: @zhengdongwang - Feeling the Wave Zhengdong Wang is an AI researcher who writes annual letters from the frontier. I particularly loved his 2025 letter, in which he describes 'the compute theory of everything' and feeling the wave crash over him as we march up the
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Aug 7
Do you believe your children will have a better life than you? @ciaomack on why the answer to that question predicts the entire economy: "The ability for the individual to believe that their children's future will be better than their future is really important for societies."
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Aug 28, 2025
Ep. 27 - Mackenzie Burnett - Accounting for America Mackenzie Burnett (@ciaomack) is the co-founder and CEO of @AmbrookAg, financial software for independent businesses starting with farms and ranches. We trace her arc from a policy-first upbringing (USDA household,
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Aug 7
The best time to propagate a religion was 2,000 years ago. The second-best time is now at @OpenAI or @AnthropicAI. @nabeelqu on why the people writing the personalities of frontier AIs might be the most culturally powerful people alive: "Somebody like @AmandaAskell at
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Jun 29
50: Tyler Cowen & Nabeel Qureshi - An Appetite for More
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Aug 6
"Say who you are. Really say it. Say it for the kids who aren't born yet, who won't be born for 500 years." "Say the thing you're ashamed of. Say the thing that you think is so awful about yourself that you don't want anyone in the world to know it, and say it." - @jackconte
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Jul 21
52: Jack Conte - Draw the Next Page
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Aug 6
.@tylercowen on never crying at art "I don't think I have very deep emotional responses. I think it's pleasure, and I feel I learn a lot from it, and then when I go out and look at other works of art or just the world, I see a lot more—that people may not who don't live with
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