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Inhalt bereitgestellt von Pradyumna Prasad. Alle Podcast-Inhalte, einschließlich Episoden, Grafiken und Podcast-Beschreibungen, werden direkt von Pradyumna Prasad oder seinem Podcast-Plattformpartner hochgeladen und bereitgestellt. Wenn Sie glauben, dass jemand Ihr urheberrechtlich geschütztes Werk ohne Ihre Erlaubnis nutzt, können Sie dem hier beschriebenen Verfahren folgen https://de.player.fm/legal.
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I talk to the most interesting people about economic growth
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×I spoke to Pramit Bhattacharya an independent data journalist about India's statistical system. We talked about How did Indian statisticians adapt their statistical methods to account for India's informal sector? How are India's GDP numbers constructed? Why it's so hard to outright manipulate GDP numbers The case for optimism…
I talked with Harry Law of the University of Cambridge and Google DeepMind about AI regulation We talked about Me vs Harry on open source AI regulation Being humble when regulating AI Why a "Manhattan Project for X" is overrated
I spoke with Derek Wong about the adaptive markets hypothesis, macro investing and investing in cryptocurrency markets We talk about Why investors should consider the financial markets as a complex adaptive system How investing in China is very different from investing in the West How he invests in crypto without fundamental anchors…
I spoke to Adam Ozimek and Connor O'Brien from the Economic Innovation Group about the policy and politics of high skilled immigration in America. We talked about Why reforming high skilled immigration in the US is so difficult The lump of labour fallacy in immigration Reforming immigration through place-based visas…
I spoke with Devashish Dhar , the author of the excellent book India's Blind Spot which talks about India's urbanisation crisis and solutions to it. We talk about Why does India have a much lower reported rate of urbanisation than the rest of the world? Explaining the global bias against cities “Extremely high levels of traffic is caused by poor land policy” Why are there so many floods in Indian cities? How to climate-proof Indian cities “India’s biggest unfulfilled promise is local government” and much more!…
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1 Ep 52: Tyler Cowen on Singapore, AI and Economic Growth 1:07:01
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I interviewed one of the most interesting thinkers today, Tyler Cowen . We talked about Why there are such few Singaporean famous people What Singapore can do to get more weird Why he's sceptical of an AI-driven singularity What happens to kids in a post-GPT world What happens to public intellectuals in a post-GPT world Why he's optimistic on Kenyan economic growth And so much more!…
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1 Ep 51: Why AI won't kill us all ft. Rohit Krishnan 1:05:52
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I spoke to Rohit Krishnan the author of the blog Strange Loop Canon about why he is sceptical about the idea that AI will kill us all We talked about Why he’s sceptical of AI regulation proposals Why AI “timelines” are not as meaningful as you think AI deployment is harder than you think! The value of incrementalism in AI policy Why he thinks instrumental convergence is unlikely to happen…
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1 Ep. 50: mRNA vaccines in India ft. Soham Sankaran 1:01:43
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I spoke to Soham Sankaran who runs PopVax , an Indian mRNA vaccine company. Their goal is to build low-cost broadly-protective vaccines to protect against the entire sarbecovirus species. Read Soham's experience here (https://chronicles.popvax.com/p/three-meetings-and-six-million-funerals) as a complement to this episode. Also check out their jobs page (https://jobs.popvax.com/) for opportunities. This episode includes How he started PopVax and (went bankrupt in the process) Why there hasn't been a successful Indian mRNA vaccine yet Why developing countries can't afford drugs for rare diseases What they're doing to fix it Their biggest constraints…
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I talked to Dwarkesh Patel of the Lunar Society Podcast about many topics. We talked about: Why do AI researchers and rationalists disagree about existential risk? What would happen if Robert Moses ran San Francisco? Is localism overrated? What does Effective Altruism get right and wrong? Which politicians would he like to interview…
I talked to Faris Abdurrachman about Indonesia and it's nickel boom. We talked specifically about Why Indonesia banned exports of raw nickel Who gets the value from nickel exports Indonesia's new sovereign wealth fund
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1 Ep 46: Growth teams with Kartik Akileswaran 1:23:27
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I spoke to Kartik Akileswaran who runs Growth Teams - an initiative which helps build state capacity for economic growth in developing countries. We talked about - Why implementation is a binding constraint for economic policy - How industrial policy helps reduce information constraints for investors - Underrated growth reforms…
I spoke to Matt Korda who works at the Federation of American Scientists on nuclear weapon policy. We have an exciting discussion about the role of nuclear weapons, their growth and the dangerous arms races that are starting Some highlights of the show: The advent of “exotic” nuclear weapon systems China’s nuclear strategy has changed dramatically! Why nuclear experts are most worried about South Asia The new game theory of a multipolar nuclear world…
I talked to Anupam Manur , a professor of economics about India's trade policy before 1991. We talked about: The scarcity mindset about foreign exchange reserves The controversial 1966 devaluation How did the pre-1991 import licensing system work? “The financial account was almost non existent” “Hindustan Motors and Toyota were set up at the same time but in 15 years Toyota sold 280 times the cars” “Productivity growth was almost absent before 1991”…
I spoke to Professor Richard Jones , about how science funding in the UK could improve. Some interesting questions we talked about are “Penny wise, pound foolish” in science funding Creating markets for technological advances How he’d invest a billion £ to accelerate scientific innovation?
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I talked to Tiago Santos , a diplomat, about his book Why Not Parliamentarism . Tiago and I explore some questions here What makes parliamentary democracies superior to presidential ones? The creeping presidentialisation of parliamentary democracies The optimal rate of constitutional amendments
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