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AI Podcasts

October 27, 2025

AI can learn logic. But can it learn folklore knowledge? - Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Folklore Knowledge is AI’s Next Frontier. The true test for advanced AI in abstract fields is not solving problems from a textbook but acquiring the unwritten, intuitive knowledge that experts possess.
  2. Automated Proof Verification Will Reshape Research. Within years, tools like Lean, powered by AI translators, will create a verifiable database of all mathematics, fundamentally changing how papers are published and refereed.
  3. Human + Machine is the New Paradigm. AI will become an indispensable assistant, automating routine work and pushing mathematicians to focus on what humans still do best: true creativity and formulating entirely new models.
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October 27, 2025

AI can learn logic. But can it learn folklore knowledge? - Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The "Folklore" Bottleneck:** AI's primary limitation isn't complex logic but its inability to access uncodified, expert intuition—the "folklore" that guides human problem-solving.
  2. **Automation Breeds Creativity:** As AI handles routine calculations and arguments, the value of human mathematicians will shift entirely to creative and abstract thinking, raising the bar for what constitutes a meaningful contribution.
  3. **Proof Verification Is the Next Revolution:** The most immediate and profound change in mathematics will be AI-driven, formally verified proofs, which will guarantee correctness and reshape the entire publishing and peer-review landscape.
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October 27, 2025

AI can learn logic. But can it learn folklore knowledge? - Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's Next Frontier is Unwritten Knowledge. AI has mastered logic, but its true test is acquiring the implicit, "folklore" knowledge that experts use intuitively but rarely write down.
  2. Human Mathematicians Will Become Purely Creatives. As AI automates routine calculations and arguments, the role of a mathematician will shift entirely to high-level abstraction, creative problem formulation, and intuition.
  3. Formal Verification Will Revolutionize Publishing. The combination of AI translators and formal proof assistants like Lean will soon make it possible to automatically verify all mathematical papers, fundamentally changing how research is validated and published.
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October 25, 2025

The Universal Hierarchy of Life - Prof. Chris Kempes [SFI]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Life is a Process, Not a Substance. Stop defining life by its carbon-based hardware. The most fundamental properties of life are functional and informational processes that can manifest on any substrate, including human minds (culture) or silicon (AI).
  2. Physics is the Great Equalizer. While the universe may teem with diverse biochemistries, all life is governed by the same physical constraints. These universal laws make life predictable at a macro level, creating evolutionary targets and forcing convergent solutions.
  3. Evolutionary Leaps Aren't Random. Major transitions in life’s complexity, like the emergence of multicellularity, are often responses to hitting a hard physical wall, frequently triggered by radical environmental change. Evolution innovates most profoundly when its back is against the wall.
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October 24, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 139 - Sundae Bar: Subnet 121

Hash Rate pod - Bittensor $TAO & Subnets

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The "App Store" for AI Has Arrived. Sundae Bar isn't just a subnet; it's a full-stack business aiming to be the Shopify for AI agents, handling everything from discovery and custom builds to payments and monetization.
  2. They Cracked the Custom Agent Puzzle. By integrating Leta Evals, Sundae Bar bypasses the need for a standardized benchmark. It can objectively grade bespoke agents, ensuring clients get high-quality, useful tools instead of gamed outputs.
  3. Main Street Meets Crypto. As a publicly listed company with a CEO from Red Bull, Sundae Bar is built to bridge the gap between complex AI infrastructure and real-world business needs, making it one of the most compelling vehicles for mainstream adoption in the Bittensor ecosystem.
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October 24, 2025

Why This Bull Market Feels Like a Bear! Downtober Explained

Bankless

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Altcoin Malaise Defines Sentiment: The real temperature check of the market isn't Bitcoin's price, but the performance of the "middle of the market." As long as altcoins lag, bearish sentiment will persist, even in a technical bull run.
  2. Gold's Rally is Bitcoin's Prologue: Watch the flow of capital into gold. As central banks de-dollarize and a staggering $7.5 trillion sits in money market funds, gold is the first stop. Bitcoin is the next logical destination for that capital seeking a digitally native, debasement-resistant asset.
  3. AI Agents Need Crypto Wallets: The convergence is here. AI models are already competing in trading competitions on-chain, and platforms like Coinbase are building the infrastructure (X42, MCP wallets) for AI agents to hold and spend crypto, creating a new machine-to-machine economy.
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October 23, 2025

Waiting for AI's phase change in mathematics - Ravi Vakil

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Wait for the "Wow" Moment.** Don't be fooled by incremental progress. The true AI revolution in math will be a qualitative "phase change"—a sudden leap in creative reasoning, not just better computation.
  2. **Think Native, Not Fluent.** The deepest impact will come from the next generation of mathematicians who use AI as a native language, not a retrofitted tool.
  3. **Value Understanding Over Proof.** The ultimate measure of AI's success in mathematics won't be its ability to solve problems, but its capacity to generate genuine "epiphanies" and deepen human understanding.
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October 23, 2025

Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. English is the New Programming Language. The era of wrestling with boilerplate code is ending. AI agents are empowering anyone to build software with natural language, transforming creative ideas directly into functional products.
  2. Autonomous Agents Are Already Here. Coherent, multi-hour task execution is now possible thanks to verification loops and multi-agent systems. Expect agents to soon handle entire development workflows with minimal human oversight.
  3. We’re Trapped in a "Good Enough" AGI Loop. The explosion of value in verifiable domains like coding is creating a powerful economic incentive to perfect narrow AI. This risks trapping us in a local maximum, delaying the quest for true, generalized intelligence.
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October 22, 2025

Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Creativity Over Code: As AI handles the "how" of software development, the most valuable skill will be the "what" and "why." The future belongs to creative orchestrators who can guide AI to build novel, emotionally resonant products.
  2. Invest in the Weird: The biggest consumer opportunities are born from ideas that initially seem odd or socially awkward. For investors and builders, the willingness to be embarrassed is a prerequisite for creating something truly new.
  3. From Intellect to Emotion: For 40 years, technology has focused on optimizing our minds and productivity. The next wave of AI-powered applications will focus on augmenting our emotional lives, from companionship to creativity.
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Crypto Podcasts

October 10, 2025

Why This Early Solana Investor Is Still All In | Viktor Fischer

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The L1 War Is Won.** Don't bet on new L1s. The network effects, developer mindshare, and ecosystem infrastructure of chains like Solana and Base have created an insurmountable moat.
  2. **DATs Are the Trojan Horse for TradFi.** Digital Asset Treasury companies are the key to unlocking Wall Street capital. Expect Solana DATs to drive a massive TVL re-rating in 2026 as their superior yield generation becomes undeniable.
  3. **SOL to $2,000 Is the Base Case.** This price target isn't based on meme-fueled hype, but on a model where Solana captures just 10% of the projected multi-trillion-dollar tokenized asset market by 2030.
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October 9, 2025

Andre Cronje: How the SEC Tried to Shut Me Down

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Regulation by Exhaustion: The SEC's primary weapon was not legal action but a relentless process designed to drain builders' time, energy, and will to continue.
  2. The Target Is Always Moving: Regulators will continuously shift their focus—from token to revenue to the product itself—until they find a viable angle of attack.
  3. Innovation Was the Real Target: This "shotgun approach" against hundreds of projects was a de facto industry crackdown that successfully chased many legitimate builders away, achieving a policy goal without ever going to court.
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October 8, 2025

The BTC/Gold Ratio Is Screaming "Higher"

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Stop Pricing in Fiat: The BTC/Gold ratio is the clearest signal of Bitcoin’s fundamental adoption, stripping away the distortion of dollar debasement.
  2. Mean Reversion Points to $150k+: The established BTC/Gold trend channel since 2023 is screaming higher. A simple return to the channel’s midpoint targets a $150k–$160k Bitcoin price by year-end.
  3. Gold's Rally is Bitcoin's Tailwind: Gold’s new role as a de-dollarization hedge for nations and the subsequent portfolio rebalancing from gold profits into BTC create powerful dual-demand drivers for Bitcoin.
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October 8, 2025

Steady Lads Live From TOKEN2049 in Singapore! w/ Dim Selk

Steady Lads Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Profit, Don't HODL. The current market is a trader’s paradise, not an investor’s dream. The strategy is to ride the seasonal Q4 pump and exit by January, refusing to get caught in another brutal bear cycle.
  2. Fade the Old, Farm the New. Capital is mercenary, flowing from established tokens to the next hot airdrop farm or launch. The relentless hunt for volatility means older coins are treated as exit liquidity for the next shiny object.
  3. Unlocks Are the Silent Killer. Before investing, map out the token unlock schedule. Even fundamentally sound projects with strong revenue face a massive gravitational pull on their price from insider and team unlocks.
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September 17, 2025

FinTech Meets Crypto: The Future of Global Payments

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Stablecoins Are Rebranding Crypto.** The FinTech industry is adopting stablecoin technology not as a niche crypto asset, but as the foundational layer for "FinTech 3.0," poised to overhaul global payments.
  2. **The EVM Is The New COBOL.** Specialized payments chains are standardizing the EVM as the backend for modern finance, creating high-throughput, compliant on-ramps that will bring trillions in TradFi volume on-chain.
  3. **Payments Are Just The Beginning.** Once the world rebuilds its payments infrastructure on stablecoins, the floodgates will open for the complete tokenization of all financial assets, forever blurring the line between crypto and finance.
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September 16, 2025

Collector Crypt: Onchain Capital Markets On Solana | Tuomas Holmberg

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Onchain Rails Create New Economies. By digitizing physical assets on high-performance chains like Solana, you eliminate friction around custody, settlement, and global access, unlocking novel business models like the Gotcha Machine.
  2. Real-World Logistics Are the Ultimate Moat. While anyone can build a smart contract, Collector Crypt’s defensibility comes from its physical supply chain—dealer relationships and automated acquisition tools that secure inventory below market price.
  3. Novel Oracles Unlock the Next Wave of DeFi. The future of onchain finance depends on reliably pricing illiquid, real-world assets. Developing proprietary oracles, like Collector Crypt’s, is the first step to building DeFi for everything.
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