My favorite podcast episode this year comes from the Into The Impossible podcast, featuring guest Joscha Bach and host Prof Brian Keating.
Tons of high-quality questions, answers, and back-and-forth dialogue. The only section I strongly disagreed with was the guest’s comments on chess 😂
“I’ve seen a lot of good minds get consumed by chess. They spend years learning the deep structure of the game, but often fail to transfer that discipline into anything useful in the real world.Instead of using those brain cycles to solve problems in physics, AGI, cooking, dancing, or relationships, they pour their intelligence into a mechanical little universe that rewards them with status in a very small community.”
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