Faster, Please! — The Podcast

✨ My interview with economist Tyler Cowen on the Age of AI (and more)

On this episode of Faster Please!—The Podcast, I am joined (again) by Tyler Cowen. Tyler is an economics professor at George Mason University and co-founder of the econom

🚀 The New Space Age meets the Age of AI: My interview with Phil Metzger

Thanks in large part to the massive drop in the cost of getting a pound or kilogram of stuff into orbit and beyond, many of the boldest Space Age dreams are now possible.

🏁 The Great AI Race as a clash over compute: my interview with analyst Ryan Fedasiuk

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: The AI race between America and China isn’t just about whose AI models are at the fro

💧⚡🖥️ A deep-dive on data centers: My interview with AI researcher Andy Masley

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: With the massive buildout of data centers has come an equally massive backlash. They’

📈 The business of AI: My interview with technology analyst and investor Azeem Azhar

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Artificial intelligence is expected to transform the economy, but what about the AI i

✨ Data center distortions: My interview with energy policy analyst Shuting Pomerleau

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: What problem does a data-center moratorium solve, exactly? As these warehouse-sized s

✨ My interview with Sebastian Mallaby, author of 'The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence'

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: If my podcast guest today is correct, the emergence of generative artificial intellig

✨💪 AI, jobs, and productivity: My chat with economist Erik Brynjolfsson

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Will artificial intelligence displace workers or make them more valuable? Probably pl

✨💪 The future of work in an age of AI: My chat with economist Daniel Rock

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly poised to change the workplace—the question is

🏗️ A hub for hard-tech startups: My chat with 'American Shenzhen' builder Joshua Farahzad

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: As a college sophomore, Josh Farahzad assembled a group of students from around the c

✨ The Age of AI, an update: My chat with policy analyst Dean Ball

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Anxiety is running rampant about the future of artificial intelligence and its place

🌎 Storm watch: My chat with climate policy expert Roger Pielke Jr.

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Headlines portend rising seas, raging storms, and a planet in crisis. It’s easy to fe

☄️Awaiting apocalypse: My chat with journalist and author Dorian Lynskey

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Since humanity’s beginning, we’ve been pondering about our end. From war, to disease,

⤴️ Beyond Abundance: My chat with Brink Lindsey about his new book, 'The Permanent Problem'

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: The human pursuit of progress stems from our desire for security and a higher quality

⚛️ A final (and lasting?) nuclear revival: My chat with nuclear energy advocate Jessica Lovering

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Headlines abound with news of the coming nuclear renaissance — a long-awaited era of

🪐 NASA and beyond: My chat with space policy analyst Casey Dreier

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: NASA is attempting the difficult task of juggling highly ambitious goals, but also po

✨🔬 Acceleration though AI-automated R&D: My chat (+transcript) with researcher Tom Davidson

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: What really gets AI optimists excited isn’t the prospect of automating customer servi

🚀 The trillion-dollar space race: My chat (+transcript) with journalist Christian Davenport

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, China’s spacefaring ambitions pose tough competition for America. With a focused, centralized program, Beijing seems

🤖 Thoughts of a (rare) free-market AI doomer: My chat (+transcript) with economist James Miller

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, Some Faster, Please! readers have told me I spend too little time on the downsides of AI. If you’re one of those folk

🛑 Why progress stops : My chat (+transcript) with economist Carl Benedikt Frey

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, For most of history, stagnation — not growth — was the rule. To explain why prosperity so often stalls, economist Car