E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, ri...

(0:00) Michael Kratsios joins the show! (01:56) Is this administration anti-science? The Nature poll, DEI grants, and $8B down the drain (8:16) Climate science cuts: RCP 8.5 gets pulled and the "climate emergency" narrative collapses (13:45) $47B at NIH, Eroom's Law, and golden t ...  Show more

(00:00) Besties are back! (00:13) Dario's two-part essay: regulatory capture, doomerism, and the data center backlash (10:25) FINRA for AI vs. MPAA for AI: SROs, thinking tokens, and the "DMV for AI" (30:12) Is an open source ban coming? Harnesses, FDI, jobs, and recursive self-i ...  Show more

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Harris speaks with Garry Kasparov about Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine. They discuss Putin's larger objectives, the perception of the war inside Russia, whether US and EU foreign policy is to blame, the expansion of NATO, American weak ...

Sanctions, energy supplies, cyber-attacks - how bad could the economic fallout be if the situation in Ukraine spirals out of control?How likely would Russia be to simply cut the gas supply off to Europe in the middle of winter for example? Ed Butler asks Jane Collin, editor of th ...  Show more

David and Helen talk to Shashank Joshi, Defence Editor of the Economist, about what Vladimir Putin hopes to get out of the Ukraine crisis and what anyone can do to stop him. Is some sort of invasion inevitable? Is Russia’s goal to sow dissent or to achieve regime change? What lev ...  Show more

Jeffrey Sachs on how to save the United States from getting sucked into utterly catastrophic wars with Iran and Russia. (00:00) Introduction (03:47) Why Is Ukraine So Central to the Deep State’s Plan? (09:31) The Origins of the West’s Hatred of Russia (42:33) The Russia/Ukraine P ...  Show more