Long-form interviews and conversations with tech, AI, and finance leaders (30min+)
Archaeological researcher Raul Bilecky documents the catastrophic looting of Peru's ancient sites while presenting evidence of deep, precision-cut megalithic structures that predate known civilizations, arguing that academic gatekeeping and government corruption are systematically destroying or ignoring humanity's true history.
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David Plawn explains how investors are leveraging AI to solve fundamental research bottlenecks—specifically information overload, idea generation, and position monitoring—while emphasizing that effective AI use requires treating prompts like delegating to a smart but context-lacking analyst and calibrating accuracy requirements based on the research stage.
Individuality requires navigating the tension between necessary social conformity and personal resentment, while maintaining psychological sanity through disciplined routine and genuine relationships that challenge and transform you.
Elon Musk argues that terrestrial power constraints will make Earth-based AI data centers economically unviable at scale within 36 months, predicting that orbital data centers powered by space-based solar will become the cheapest solution due to unlimited energy availability, higher solar efficiency, and regulatory arbitrage, requiring massive investments in Starship launches and domestic chip manufacturing.
Chance Finucane warns that the S&P 500's free cash flow multiple has stretched to nearly 30x (vs. 20x historical average) as big tech spends heavily on AI with uncertain returns, positioning 2026 as a likely year of rotation from overvalued hyperscalers toward commodities and diversified sectors with significant volatility expected.
Bitcoin's crash to $68,000 represents a strategic accumulation opportunity as the asset tests its 2021 all-time high support, with technical indicators suggesting a floor between $58,000 (production cost/200 WMA) and $49,000 worst-case, while extreme fear and $650M in liquidations signal potential capitulation.
The SpaceX-XAI merger at $1.25T signals the end of the 'stay private forever' era, as AI's insatiable compute demands exhaust private capital and force mega-companies toward IPOs, while traditional SaaS stocks collapse amid existential doubts about recurring revenue durability.
Ross Douthat interviews pro-life activist Lila Rose about the movement's trajectory post-Roe, where she argues abortion constitutes murder of distinct human life from conception while critiquing feminism's reliance on the sexual revolution, and insists that abolishing abortion requires robust government support for pregnant women.
Despite coordinated fear-mongering campaigns by effective altruists and AI companies seeking regulatory capture, current large language models are technically plateauing rather than achieving true AGI. However, the rise of multi-step 'functional AGI' coding agents is creating a 'vibe coding' revolution that will displace resistant software engineers while empowering adaptable knowledge workers and enabling a new decentralized entrepreneurial class.
Ido Portal reframes movement as an open, decentralized system of self-inquiry that extends far beyond exercise, emphasizing sensory awareness, breaking habitual postures, and introducing playfulness to unlock physical and cognitive freedom.
Aspiring AI researchers should build small language models from scratch to master fundamentals, then specialize deeply in narrow areas like RLHF or character training, while carefully weighing the trade-offs between academia's intellectual freedom and frontier labs' high compensation but intense 996 work culture.
Google's plan to nearly double capital expenditures to $180 billion reignited market fears over AI infrastructure costs, while software stocks cratered on existential business model concerns and the GLP-1 weight-loss market saw Eli Lilly surge as rival Novo Nordisk collapsed.