Infinite Loops 🎙
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What happens when every NBA team works from the same data? Former Phoenix Suns Assistant GM Ryan Resch on why dashboards show lagging indicators, and why the edge comes from proprietary questions built on public data. On Infinite Loops with Jimmy Soni.
Infinite Loops 🎙114,677 görüntüleme • 24 gün önce
"The only way we actually solve problems is by experiencing them and mitigating them." Julie Fredrickson (Julie Fredrickson) is the Managing Partner of Chaotic Capital and advocated for Montana's Right to Compute Act, the first state law of its kind. The conversation covers what the encryption wars and nuclear power teach about regulating AI, why human data may become the most valuable asset online, and how to think clearly when AI can persuade at scale. Out now on Infinite Loops, with host Jim O'Shaughnessy. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 1:08 AI Moves Into the Real World 2:32 Is Compute Free Speech? 4:05 Lessons From the Encryption Wars 6:30 Pro-AI Is Not Anti-Safety 8:50 The Case for Rational Optimism 13:21 If Julie Ran AI Policy 15:50 Jim's Case for Sensible Regulation 17:47 Is AI Still in Its Invention Phase? 20:28 How AI Crawlers Change the Web 23:19 Amazon Blocks Meta's Muse 24:20 Why Chatbots Recommend CeraVe 27:53 Being Human as a Job 33:23 Zero-Knowledge Proofs 34:44 Lost Patents and Ancient Scrolls 38:28 Who Owns AI's Data? 40:45 The Statistic Nobody Could Source 42:52 Tracing Where Information Comes From 44:55 Astroturfing Since Jericho 47:45 1984 and Cognitive Security 52:09 Asking AI Where He Was Wrong 54:46 Why Jim Quit TV News 59:32 Being Early on Nuclear 1:02:22 A Reactor Built in a Year 1:04:17 Nuclear Fear and the Precautionary Principle 1:09:07 Aligned to What? Open Source AI 1:11:33 2,089 Days of Writing 1:17:17 What an LLM Found in Her Writing 1:19:39 Using AI as an Honest Critic 1:22:52 What Investors Are Missing 1:26:34 Two Ideas for the World
Infinite Loops 🎙16,394 görüntüleme • 8 gün önce
Markets change. Human nature doesn’t. Cliff Asness (Clifford Asness) joins Infinite Loops to discuss the gamification of markets, and why extreme valuations keep returning despite decades of data. We explore how trading apps change behavior, why speculation feels productive, and what gets lost when investing becomes entertainment. If you care about long-term thinking in a short-term world, this episode is for you. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 1:10 Losses Hurt More than the Wins 6:20 Dot-Com Bubble vs. the 2020 Tech Bubble 13:30 Meme Stocks, Robinhood, and Gamified Investing 21:40 Asness Doesn’t Know Which Stocks He Owns 29:10 Quant Discipline, Models, and Looking Stupid 38:30 Market Crisesand Volatility 52:10 Human Nature as the Last Investing Edge 1:04:40 AI and “Surrendering to the Machines” 1:23:50 Forecasting Bubbles 1:37:40 Private Equity and Volatility Laundering 1:55:30 What Asness Would Change If He Ran the World
Infinite Loops 🎙184,180 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
Jason Buck (Jason C. Buck 🪳🏴☠️), founder and CIO of Mutiny Funds, joins Infinite Loops to explore risk, religion, failure, resilience, the Cockroach Portfolio, and why being less certain may be the ultimate edge. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 4:32 Jason Buck’s Unusual Career Path 10:26 The Crash That Changed Everything 15:23 Does Alpha Really Exist? 16:52 Why Diversification Should Hurt 26:05 The Cockroach Portfolio 30:38 Firing Potential Clients 50:21 Right About the Crash, Wrong Trade 1:17:13 Walking Through Nihilism 2:02:12 Enjoy Your Burrito
Infinite Loops 🎙53,692 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
You don’t know people as well as you think. Polina Pompliano studies the world’s highest performers—and what she’s found challenges how we think about success, creativity, and human behavior. From mental models to media bias to the hidden motivations driving people, this is a deep dive into how great thinkers actually see the world. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – Intro 02:12 – How Polina Breaks Down High Performers 06:02 – Rationality vs Emotion 10:03 – Creativity and Logic 15:30 – The Power of Storytelling 19:00 – Building The Profile 22:29 – The Mask vs The Real Person 30:48 – Growing Up in Bulgaria 36:03 – What Freedom Actually Means 40:17 – Why We’re All in Ideological “Cults” 01:00:15 – What She Learned From Profiling People
Infinite Loops 🎙50,994 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
Introducing: The Life of David Rhoiney A sneak peek behind the scenes of a major new Infinite Media film & book project chronicling the extraordinary journey of Dr. David Rhoiney (SurgiFi). ___ David Rhoiney was born at the bottom. As an impoverished African American child, he survived seemingly unbearable hardships, from street violence to homelessness. Yet, despite the bleakest prospects, his adult years have been defined by a series of astonishing successes. This desperate yet brilliant boy became a complex, ambitious man who refused to let himself be beaten by the dire circumstances he found himself in. Now a qualified robotic surgeon, David has also excelled as a Division I athlete in basketball and track, a U.S. Navy cryptologist, a financial educator, a public speaker, and a web designer. This is a story of ambition, ruthlessness, sacrifice, hubris, intelligence, stubbornness, loss, and, ultimately, hope. This is the story of how David Rhoiney reached the top. ___ For the full story of this multimedia project and to sign up for updates and behind-the-scenes previews, just follow the link to our Substack in the thread. In the meantime, before filming kicks off in 2024, we’re excited to present an exclusive pre-production trailer produced by the talented filmmaker Zachary Tannar, who joined David's biographer @Ed_Wi11iam earlier this year to visit David at his home in Virginia. This teaser isn’t a trailer for the film but an early opportunity to become acquainted with David and his story—in his words, in his voice—so you can see for yourself the depth and drama of the story to come. Enjoy...👇👇
Infinite Loops 🎙185,485 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
On a February morning, Danielle Crittenden Frum’s world cleaved in two: the life before her daughter Miranda was found dead in her Brooklyn apartment, and the life after. She joins Infinite Loops for a raw, unflinching conversation about grief, love, loss, and learning to live after the worst thing happens. Her luminous memoir, Dispatches from Grief, is out now from Infinite Books. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 05:27 Childhood and Siloed Grief 12:03 The Smoking Ruin 18:53 Seeing the Body 25:22 Motherhood After Loss 34:34 False Comforts 42:02 Remembering Miranda 53:36 Advice for Grievers 01:03:12 Happiness Gurus 01:09:34 Pain and Love 01:18:36 Moving Miranda 01:27:21 Signs and Survival 01:39:25 EMDR and Trauma 01:46:19 Miranda’s Gifts
Infinite Loops 🎙26,111 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
Tomás Pueyo, the French-Spanish engineer and writer behind the successful "Uncharted Territories" Substack, joins us to dismantle the invisible forces that shape our history and future. We cover why humans are horrible at understanding exponential change, the geographical advantages of the U.S, why the Luddites might have been right, the "social media politician" of the future, why education is mostly signaling, and how air conditioning and mosquito eradication could change the destiny of nations. Timestamps: 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:26 Guest Introduction 0:01:35 Why Exponentials Baffle Humans 0:06:24 The Podcasting Arbitrage 0:09:46 Tomas's Experience of Virality 0:13:50 Why Democracies Don't Work 0:29:03 War, and The Innovations It Spawns 0:38:04 The Case Against Traditional Degrees 0:50:45 Why does Geography matter? 1:12:09 How Social Media Shapes Politicians 1:39:15 Tomas As World Emperor
Infinite Loops 🎙39,306 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
Start 2026 with a deep dive into the world of book publishing. Jimmy Soni ( Jimmy Soni ), CEO and EIC of Infinite Books, is back on Infinite Loops to discuss what’s broken in traditional publishing, how we’re fixing it, and why the world needs more “problem authors.” We also explore why most industries optimize for prestige instead of outcomes, how digital distribution has reshaped attention, and why authors and creators have more leverage than they realize. Enjoy and keep reading! TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 5:00 What Traditional Publishing Gets Wrong 9:30 Why Book Covers (and A/B Testing) Actually Matter 14:30 Prestige Industries and Resistance to Change 20:30 Authors, Power, and the Shift in Incentives 28:00 Writers’ Rooms, AI, and Rethinking the Creative Process 36:30 Long-Term Thinking in Publishing and Marketing 55:15 The Story Behind The Dao of Kobe 1:15:30 What It Means to Be a “Problem Author”
Infinite Loops 🎙32,864 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
The “good old days” were not as good as you think. Chelsea Follett (Chelsea Olivia Follett) joins Infinite Loops to explain why the past was far more brutal than nostalgia suggests — and why progress is real, fragile, and worth defending. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 02:24 Why We Romanticize the Past 04:00 Child Mortality and Modern Medicine 07:04 Rousseau and the Myth of Nature 09:00 The False View of History 12:24 Life Was Nasty, Brutal, and Short 22:02 Why Doomsday Predictions Persist 31:23 Science Is Never Settled 54:32 Freedom, Systems, and Progress 01:12:26 What Blocks Progress Today? 01:26:02 Chelsea’s Two Ideas for the World
Infinite Loops 🎙11,670 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
🚨New episode🚨 Michael Dean architect-turned-writer, O’Shaughnessy Fellow, and creator of Essay Architecture, joins Infinite Loops to dive into the hidden structures of nonfiction, the 27 patterns for idea-form-voice, why editing rewires synapses, the risks of vibe-based writing and scoring essays with David Foster Wallace scoring the top three spots. Timestamps: 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:03 Guest Introduction 0:01:57 The Architecture of Essays: from Design School to Writing Frameworks 0:06:30 The Pattern Language: Idea, Form, and Voice 0:09:35 Local Nuance vs Global Stylekits 0:16:39 Fundamentals before breaking rules: Joyce, Picasso, the Beatles 0:19:55 Quality without a Name 0:25:35 Leveling the College Playing Field 0:32:27 The Two Sandboxes of Fundamentals and Amplification 0:36:38 Gamification, Play, and Motivation 0:51:35 Beyond the Five-paragraph Essay: Emerson and AI in Education 0:55:25 Scoring Great Essays: why David Foster Wallace takes Three Top Spots 1:02:51 Editing as Belief-Rewiring: Why Writers Avoid It and Why Math Helps 1:15:53 The King of Biases: Confirmation Bias 1:29:08 Dean as Emperor of The World
Infinite Loops 🎙22,719 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
New Infinite Loops with Saloni Dattani (Saloni)! There may be medical breakthroughs in the pipeline right now that work — but won’t reach patients for another decade. Saloni Dattani joins us to explain the hidden bottleneck slowing the future of medicine and why biology may be one of the most important fields to work in today. Listen now. TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 2:07 The Problem with Health Data 14:44 Clinical Trials Are the Bottleneck 25:05 AI and Drug Discovery 35:00 Why Science Journalism Fails 45:41 Medicine’s Next Great Leap 50:20 Fixing Medical Market Failures 57:10 The Leukemia Trial Breakthrough 1:06:18 Why Failed Research Matters 1:12:51 Science Is Never Settled
Infinite Loops 🎙11,818 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
🚨Our episode with Anne-Laure Le Cunff is now live! Anne-Laure Le Cunff is the founder of Ness Labs and author of Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World. She's a neuroscience PhD and writes a newsletter that has 100,000+ subscribers. She's used those insights to develop a new model of success — one built around conducting “tiny experiments” that help her build a life on her own terms. She joins me to discuss how we get trapped in cognitive scripts, the hidden dangers of productivity culture, how we can experiment our way to a better life and MUCH more! Timestamps 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:48 Guest introduction 0:05:15 How do you know you are bored out? 0:17:18 People who love us the most might turn out to be our biggest blockers 0:22:20 Don't confuse activity with effectiveness 0:27:39 We will do virtually anything to gain what is really an illusion of control 0:32:16 The map is not the territory, the menu is not the meal. And yet, words are magic spells 0:39:16 The Winner’s Script and the Loser’s Script 0:47:34 "You gotta run at the top speed if you just want to stay in place.” 0:50:27 Let go of the linear and replace it with the loop- a more cyclical approach for growth 0:55:20 Can you sit alone in a room for 15 minutes? 0:58:24 Procrastination is just a signal from your brain that something is not quite working right now 1:20:38 We know nothing 1:24:26 AI is a rocket ship for the mind 1:28:20 In 100 years, nobody will remember you
Infinite Loops 🎙22,154 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
"In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is." -- Bojan Tunguz👇👇
Infinite Loops 🎙31,622 görüntüleme • 3 yıl önce
New ep! John Kennedy (@jo_hn2) & the Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation US are tackling an overlooked crisis in American education: air quality. Using an ingeniously simple $60 box fan, they're on a mission to revolutionize the health and learning environments of students nationwide. Stick around until around the 30-minute mark for an Infinite Loops first: Jim O'Shaughnessy spontaneously offering John a $100k Fellowship on the spot! Jim & John also discuss the future of education—how we can reorganize it from the ground up to produce happy, healthy, and high-agency adults ready for the challenges of the 21st century. Timestamps 0:00:00 Intro 0:00:58 Main podcast 0:01:29 Nobody gets to choose the air they breathe... 0:05:19 Why has air quality been overlooked? 0:09:23 When Jim got stranded up a mountain 0:12:32 How do you scale a K-12 solution? 0:25:55 What would it cost to put a Cori-Rosenthal box in every New York classroom? 0:29:13 Surprise! Welcome to the O’Shaughnessy Fellowships 0:36:56 What would a model 21st century K-12 system look like? 0:43:30 How to overcome systemic inertia 0:52:07 Do Charter schools work? 0:55:31 Why public schools can’t mimic private school innovations 0:57:52 What exciting developments are happening in edtech? 1:02:15 What does public school look like in 2044? 1:10:27 John as World Emperor 👇👇
Infinite Loops 🎙20,965 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce