#25 - AJ Jacobs - The Power of Social Experim...

Free speech is often treated as a political issue. But what if it’s the foundational technology that makes peaceful civilization possible in the first place?I sat down with Greg Lukianoff — free speech advocate, first amendment attorney, and longtime leader of FIRE.org — to explo ...  Show more

Which LLM is best at POKER? What about the social deception game Werewolf? This week I'm collaborating with ⁠ @googledeepmind ⁠ and ⁠ @kaggle ⁠ to explain their new “AI Game Arena” project, designed to test all the top LLMs at various games. The Game Arena is a massive research p ...  Show more

In this episode of Remarkable People, join host Guy Kawasaki as he engages in a hilarious and interesting conversation with AJ Jacobs, bestselling author and immersive journalist. Together, they explore Jacobs' latest adventure: living for one year according to the original me ...

Award-winning neuroscientist and entrepreneur Anne-Laure Le Cunff joins Google to talk about her book, "Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World." Her book is a guide for how to live a more experimental life, turn uncertainty into curiosity, and ...

Tim Urban is a blogger who writes about a wide range of topics, from science and technology to psychology and philosophy. He is known for creating minimalist stick-figure illustrations to help explain complex concepts in a simple way. His musings are collected on his website, ‘Wa ...  Show more

WIRED FOR WHY: How We Think, Feel and Make Meaning. (Self-Published 2025) spans eighteen chapters exploring everything from how we manage to stay alive against all odds, to why language separates us from other species, to whether death might be a metaphor. It's a journey through ...  Show more