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My conversation with Michael Levin, a biologist at Tufts University whose research explores bioelectricity, regeneration, morphogenesis, and how cells collectively process information to build and repair bodies. Timestamps: 0:00 - Causes and downstream effects of aging 3:31 - Bioelectric patterns and memory in regeneration 9:30 - Cracking the bioelectric... show more

Arjun Khemani

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Arjun Khemani3 days ago

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Riva3 days ago

@drmichaellevin two legends

sandipan3 days ago

@drmichaellevin Interesting

Sophie 🌟3 days ago

@drmichaellevin the cells-as-collectives thing still messes with me. regeneration isn't just tissue, it's a decision loop the body already knew how to run

Paul Brigner 🛡️3 days ago

@drmichaellevin This was super interesting. Thanks @arjunkhemani

OMID🛡3 days ago

@drmichaellevin Thanks Arjun for the great content. Keep it up!

Aaron Newman3 days ago

@drmichaellevin amazing!

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Maxime Desalle3 days ago

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nick3 days ago

@drmichaellevin loving these convos, arjun

Shorya Kumar3 days ago

@drmichaellevin how to work with you @drmichaellevin

along2 days ago

@drmichaellevin 这个工作让我想起了我做大语言模型，我把一些一整个内容学进去之后呢，是我只提示一小部分内容，它其实就能复现其他的内容。

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Ashlee Vance

63,172 views • 10 months ago

Join my conversation with Elon Musk on AGI timelines, energy, robots, and why abundance is the most likely outcome for humanity's future, alongside my Moonshot Mate NOTDAVID! (00:00) - Navigating the Future of AI and Robotics (04:54) - The Promise of Abundance and Optimism (10:02) - Energy: The Key to a Sustainable Future (15:00) - The Role of Education in a Changing World (41:07) - Health, Longevity, and the Future of Humanity (50:51) - AI's Impact on Labor and Employment (55:05) - Universal High Income: A New Economic Paradigm (57:58) - Navigating the Singularity and AI's Acceleration (01:02:30) - The Role of AI in Healthcare and Surgery (01:08:22) - Ethics and AI: Programming Values into Machines (01:14:18) - The Future of Space Exploration and AI's Role (01:33:30) - The Chip Shortage Crisis (01:42:46) - Simulation Theory and Consciousness (01:48:18) - The Search for Extraterrestrial Life (01:58:28) - The Future of Robotics and AI Integration

Join my conversation with Elon Musk on AGI timelines, energy, robots, and why abundance is the most likely outcome for humanity's future, alongside my Moonshot Mate NOTDAVID! (00:00) - Navigating the Future of AI and Robotics (04:54) - The Promise of Abundance and Optimism (10:02) - Energy: The Key to a Sustainable Future (15:00) - The Role of Education in a Changing World (41:07) - Health, Longevity, and the Future of Humanity (50:51) - AI's Impact on Labor and Employment (55:05) - Universal High Income: A New Economic Paradigm (57:58) - Navigating the Singularity and AI's Acceleration (01:02:30) - The Role of AI in Healthcare and Surgery (01:08:22) - Ethics and AI: Programming Values into Machines (01:14:18) - The Future of Space Exploration and AI's Role (01:33:30) - The Chip Shortage Crisis (01:42:46) - Simulation Theory and Consciousness (01:48:18) - The Search for Extraterrestrial Life (01:58:28) - The Future of Robotics and AI Integration

Peter H. Diamandis, MD

6,237,260 views • 8 months ago

This week on Complex Systems, Cate Hall and I talk about agency, cultivating it in oneself, environments/orgs which seem to suppress or encourage it. Also a bit about walking roads less travelled. 00:00 Intro 02:38 Exploring the concept of agency 03:08 Selection effects in different fields 03:45 The changing demographics in tech and startups 06:52 The rise of systematization in poker and startups 17:27 The role of mental habits in developing agency 22:25 The value of feedback and continuous improvement 25:33 The power of admitting ignorance 27:29 Growth mindset and personal improvement 28:18 Using AI for creative pursuits 31:25 The value of human interaction 34:22 The unique traits of professional gamblers 39:40 Understanding and developing agency 43:41 Triggers for increased agency 51:02 Wrap

This week on Complex Systems, Cate Hall and I talk about agency, cultivating it in oneself, environments/orgs which seem to suppress or encourage it. Also a bit about walking roads less travelled. 00:00 Intro 02:38 Exploring the concept of agency 03:08 Selection effects in different fields 03:45 The changing demographics in tech and startups 06:52 The rise of systematization in poker and startups 17:27 The role of mental habits in developing agency 22:25 The value of feedback and continuous improvement 25:33 The power of admitting ignorance 27:29 Growth mindset and personal improvement 28:18 Using AI for creative pursuits 31:25 The value of human interaction 34:22 The unique traits of professional gamblers 39:40 Understanding and developing agency 43:41 Triggers for increased agency 51:02 Wrap

Patrick McKenzie

33,081 views • 1 year ago

The next decade may be the most consequential longevity window of our lives. In a brand-new episode of the FoundMyFitness podcast, I sit down with immunologist and aging researcher Dr. Derya Unutmaz (Derya Unutmaz, MD) to explore a provocative possibility: AI may accelerate medicine fast enough to change what aging, cancer, and disease prevention look like within our lifetimes. Derya is not making these predictions from the sidelines. OpenAI has repeatedly featured his work as evidence that frontier models can contribute to real scientific discovery—including a case study in which GPT-5 helped his lab solve a three-year-old immunology mystery. We discuss how AI is already compressing months of biological analysis into hours, how digital twins could personalize treatment and shorten clinical trials, and whether disease could be predicted years before symptoms appear. We also get into: • Why he believes the next 10 years could add decades to human lifespan • Why cancer is so difficult to cure—and why he thinks that may change • When avoiding AI support could become medically irresponsible • What supercentenarians reveal about engineering greater resistance to aging • How cellular reprogramming might restore younger biological function • How to begin building a simple “mini digital twin” from your own health data You do not have to agree with every timeline to appreciate the stakes. This is one of the most ambitious conversations we have had about the future of biology and medicine. The episode is available now on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. Links in the comments below. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:27 - Add 50 years to your life? 5:35 - Months of analysis in minutes 11:06 - Trials in weeks, not years 13:42 - How safe is safe enough? 17:57 - Have we hit AGI? 23:39 - The case for AI optimism 29:51 - Crossing the intuition threshold 36:32 - Is avoiding AI malpractice? 42:35 - Can AI catch cancer's next move? 46:09 - Which AI models to trust 51:45 - Claude vs. GPT in diagnosis 55:15 - Generalist vs. specialist AI 58:41 - Cancer's self-vs-self problem 1:02:35 - The end of cancer? 1:06:46 - A dog's custom cancer vaccine 1:08:47 - Can AI prevent overtreatment? 1:11:44 - Predicting disease years early 1:18:06 - Biology goes exponential 1:23:15 - Why prevention beats reversal 1:29:07 - Engineering aging resistance 1:34:23 - One gene, many outcomes 1:38:28 - Reverse-engineering the lucky 1:40:38 - From Dolly to Yamanaka factors 1:45:12 - Full-body rejuvenation 1:53:00 - What if AI thinks for a month? 1:55:42 - The biosecurity dilemma 2:00:28 - Limits of epigenetic clocks 2:06:51 - The cells that won't retire 2:09:38 - Can brain aging be reversed? 2:16:06 - The ultimate longevity prompt 2:18:06 - How to build a digital twin 2:27:42 - The personal health wiki 2:30:50 - When lab ranges mislead

Dr. Rhonda Patrick

240,837 views • 2 months ago

Ray Peat's Energy, Gilbert Ling's Magnetic Jelly Cell, and Weiping Yu's Uon Particle @CO2_O2_Synergy joins me for a conversation on high altitude living, the findings of Gilbert Ling, the biology behind lunchroom dramas, how energy functions in cells, the Yin Yang of estrogen and progesterone, why society is downstream from thyroid, reducing lactic acid, and more. Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 3:51 Health effects of higher altitude 6:23 Similarity of thyroid supplementation and high altitude 9:20 Australia's lockdowns 11:13 Gilbert Ling 19:10 How lunchroom dramas start 24:52 Learned helplessness 28:44 The shrinking of the internet 30:08 Ling's findings on cell structure 35:59 How energy is stored in the cell 40:41 Magnetism and disordered cells 45:28 Estrogen and progesterone 46:35 Captured science 52:21 Ray Peat's ideas of politics and energy 53:25 Childlike wonder and how we lose it 58:38 Simplifying physics 1:00:11 Electric universe vs Dr Yu's model 1:01:00 A new map towards a new world 1:04:25 Incarnational action vs gnostic science 1:05:00 Lactic acid and cortisol's role in cancer 1:08:31 Why Ray Peat recommends milk 1:10:16 Should PUFA-filled people eat sugar? 1:11:05 Closing

Ray Peat's Energy, Gilbert Ling's Magnetic Jelly Cell, and Weiping Yu's Uon Particle @CO2_O2_Synergy joins me for a conversation on high altitude living, the findings of Gilbert Ling, the biology behind lunchroom dramas, how energy functions in cells, the Yin Yang of estrogen and progesterone, why society is downstream from thyroid, reducing lactic acid, and more. Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 3:51 Health effects of higher altitude 6:23 Similarity of thyroid supplementation and high altitude 9:20 Australia's lockdowns 11:13 Gilbert Ling 19:10 How lunchroom dramas start 24:52 Learned helplessness 28:44 The shrinking of the internet 30:08 Ling's findings on cell structure 35:59 How energy is stored in the cell 40:41 Magnetism and disordered cells 45:28 Estrogen and progesterone 46:35 Captured science 52:21 Ray Peat's ideas of politics and energy 53:25 Childlike wonder and how we lose it 58:38 Simplifying physics 1:00:11 Electric universe vs Dr Yu's model 1:01:00 A new map towards a new world 1:04:25 Incarnational action vs gnostic science 1:05:00 Lactic acid and cortisol's role in cancer 1:08:31 Why Ray Peat recommends milk 1:10:16 Should PUFA-filled people eat sugar? 1:11:05 Closing

David Gornoski

16,908 views • 2 years ago

Aidan Gomez (Aidan Gomez) is a computer scientist, co-author of the seminal paper ‘Attention Is All You Need,’ and the CEO of Cohere. In this episode, we discussed his upbringing in the cabin his grandfather built in Codrington, a small town North of Brighton, and the values that were instilled in him through his family. We explored his path from Codrington to his undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, emailing Geoffrey Hinton, and joining Google Brain where he co-wrote the paper on transformers. We discussed how he met his co-founders Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst, and his insights on what it means to build a meaningful, successful company in Canada. Aidan shares his conviction about what is at stake — for Canada and for the world at large. This is a conversation about family, values, and what it means to live with conviction. The Other Stuff is hosted by internetVin — filmmaker, entrepreneur, and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New. The Other Stuff #29 — Aidan Gomez: Empathy and Conviction — Timestamps 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:10 The Malleability of Toronto 00:11:06 Growing Up in Codrington 00:13:50 The Story of Aidan Gomez’s Family 00:27:23 Introduction to the Internet 00:30:39 Values and Work Ethic 00:35:46 University of Toronto’s AI Scene 00:40:48 Emailing Geoffrey Hinton 00:42:16 Google Brain 00:45:15 Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting 00:49:48 The Beauty of Research 00:54:24 One Model to Rule Them All 00:59:54 Meeting Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst 01:04:00 The Birth of Cohere 01:06:56 Twitter Influencers and Alex Friedland 01:11:48 Being the CEO 01:12:51 Building for Canada 01:15:01 Three Fundamental Ingredients of Building a Company 01:21:39 Working with the Canadian Government 01:24:39 Reflexivity in Canada 01:36:22 What Is Evil? 01:42:40 The Role of AI in the World

Aidan Gomez (Aidan Gomez) is a computer scientist, co-author of the seminal paper ‘Attention Is All You Need,’ and the CEO of Cohere. In this episode, we discussed his upbringing in the cabin his grandfather built in Codrington, a small town North of Brighton, and the values that were instilled in him through his family. We explored his path from Codrington to his undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, emailing Geoffrey Hinton, and joining Google Brain where he co-wrote the paper on transformers. We discussed how he met his co-founders Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst, and his insights on what it means to build a meaningful, successful company in Canada. Aidan shares his conviction about what is at stake — for Canada and for the world at large. This is a conversation about family, values, and what it means to live with conviction. The Other Stuff is hosted by internetVin — filmmaker, entrepreneur, and possibly the most curious man on Earth. Produced by New. The Other Stuff #29 — Aidan Gomez: Empathy and Conviction — Timestamps 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:10 The Malleability of Toronto 00:11:06 Growing Up in Codrington 00:13:50 The Story of Aidan Gomez’s Family 00:27:23 Introduction to the Internet 00:30:39 Values and Work Ethic 00:35:46 University of Toronto’s AI Scene 00:40:48 Emailing Geoffrey Hinton 00:42:16 Google Brain 00:45:15 Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting 00:49:48 The Beauty of Research 00:54:24 One Model to Rule Them All 00:59:54 Meeting Ivan Zhang and Nick Frosst 01:04:00 The Birth of Cohere 01:06:56 Twitter Influencers and Alex Friedland 01:11:48 Being the CEO 01:12:51 Building for Canada 01:15:01 Three Fundamental Ingredients of Building a Company 01:21:39 Working with the Canadian Government 01:24:39 Reflexivity in Canada 01:36:22 What Is Evil? 01:42:40 The Role of AI in the World

The Other Stuff Podcast

45,297 views • 9 months ago