My podcast with Curt Jaimungal

Available in twenty-six languages:

It is available on standard podcast sites as well.

Curt lists the following as topics we covered:

– Tariffs and US-Canada trade relations
– Canada becoming the 51st state
– Trump administration’s tactics with Canada
– Economic philosophy vs. pure economics
– University/academic life benefits
– Grant system problems and bureaucracy
– Mental health in graduate students
– Administrative burden growth
– Tenure’s impact on risk-taking and creativity
– Age and innovation across fields
– Problems with grant applications
– AI’s role in grant applications and academic review
– Deep research and O1Pro capabilities
– AI referee reports
– Public intellectual role
– Information absorption vs. contextualization
– Reading vs. active problem solving
– Free will and determinism
– Religious beliefs and probabilities
– UAP/UFO evidence and government files
– Emotional stability and stress response
– Personality traits and genetics
– Disagreeableness in successful people
– Identifying genuine vs. performative weirdness
– Nassim Taleb’s ideas and financial theories
– Academic debate formats
– Financial incentives and personal motivation
– New book project on mentoring
– Podcast preparation process
– Interviewing style and guest preparation
– Challenges with different academic fields
– Views on corporate innovation
– Current AI transformation of academic life

Curt has a very impressive YouTube site where he interviews people about their “Theories of Everything.”  Here is the related Substack.