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Content Creator Interviews
Sam Denby discusses finding video ideas, building Half as Interesting, designing Jet Lag games, Nebula's subscription model, private-equity acquisitions of YouTube channels, and creating a sustainable creative career.
Content Creator Interviews
fal Podcast host Matt Workman speaks with Plot Party founder Sophia Xing about China's microdrama boom, one-person AI production, vertical-drama economics, Hollywood adoption, emotional storytelling, and lowering the barriers to filmmaking.
Jacob Effron interviews Redwood Research CEO Buck Shlegeris about the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, reward hacking, agent cooperation, independent safety evaluation, chain-of-thought monitoring, and AI takeover risk.
Princeton cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths presents experiments on how language models represent colors, numbers, and categories, why next-token prediction produces predictable failures, and when reasoning helps or hurts. The Foresight Institute seminar concludes with questions on training data, alignment, and human-AI collaboration.
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