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AI Podcasts

December 13, 2025

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Parsimony and Self-Consistency: Adopt these principles as guiding forces in AI design. Build models that not only compress data efficiently but also maintain a high degree of self-consistency to ensure accurate and reliable world models.
  2. Focus on Abstraction, Not Just Memorization: Prioritize developing systems that can abstract knowledge beyond mere memorization. Move beyond surface-level compression and aim for models that can discover and reason about the underlying principles of the world.
  3. Understand and Reproduce the Brain’s Mechanisms: Focus on understanding and reproducing the mechanisms in the human brain that enable deductive reasoning, logical thinking, and the creation of new scientific theories to truly push AI to the next level.
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December 10, 2025

Nav Kumar: Trishool, AI Alignment, Subnet 23, Mechanistic Interpretability, Rogue LLMs | Ep. 75

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Prioritize AI Safety Research:** Invest aggressively in understanding and mitigating AI risks to safeguard humanity against potential rogue LLMs.
  2. **Support Decentralized AI Alignment:** Champion decentralized platforms like Bit Tensor and initiatives like Trishool that promote open and transparent AI alignment research.
  3. **Embrace Mechanistic Interpretability:** Drive the development of tools that enable us to understand and control the internal workings of AI models, ensuring alignment with human values.
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December 10, 2025

Everyone Needs an Assistant. Here’s Why.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Delegation as a Foundational Skill: Whether you leverage AI or human support, mastering delegation is paramount for unlocking personal and professional potential.
  2. Prioritize Time Ownership: Recognize time as your most valuable asset and design your life and calendar around your highest goals.
  3. Start Small, Scale Intentionally: Begin with affordable AI tools and gradually incorporate human assistance as your budget and needs evolve, building trust and compounding leverage over time.
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December 8, 2025

Building The Chip That Could Unlock AGI | Naveen Rao

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Embrace Analog:** Explore and invest in analog computing solutions to overcome the energy limitations of current digital AI systems.
  2. **Prioritize Causality:** Shift focus towards AI models that incorporate time and causality, potentially unlocking more advanced and human-like intelligence.
  3. **Support Hardware Innovation:** Invest in and foster startups like Unconventional AI that are tackling fundamental challenges in AI hardware.
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December 8, 2025

Why AI Will Have To Run On Blockchains

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Blockchain is essential for AI to ensure censorship resistance and uninterrupted accessibility.
  2. Trustworthy AI agents require on-chain governance to manage assets securely and transparently.
  3. AI agents can drastically accelerate blockchain adoption and optimize corporate processes.
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December 7, 2025

Tensor Logic "Unifies" AI Paradigms [Pedro Domingos]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tensor Logic provides a unified framework for AI, bridging the gap between symbolic AI and deep learning, offering improved reasoning, transparency, and efficiency.
  2. The language addresses the limitations of current AI systems, enabling reliable deduction and facilitating structure learning through gradient descent, paving the way for more interpretable and controllable AI.
  3. Tensor Logic has the potential to advance AI education by providing a single language for teaching the entire gamut of AI. Its gradual adoption path allows developers to integrate it into existing workflows.
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December 6, 2025

Crypto’s Agentic Future: AI, ZK & Money Networks at Bankless Summit

Bankless

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace X42 for Mass Adoption: Leverage the X42 standard to facilitate stablecoin adoption by integrating it into AI agent workflows, making crypto payments seamless and incentivizing business adoption.
  2. Design Bot-Friendly Markets with Auctions: Implement orderflow auctions and programmable privacy to create efficient and equitable markets, preventing front-running and spam while promoting transparency.
  3. Build with ZK for Scalable Computation: Utilize zero-knowledge technology to offload complex computations and enhance application privacy, unlocking new possibilities in DeFi and beyond.
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December 4, 2025

Akshat Jagga: Dippy AI Companions, Image/Video/Voice Inference, Embedded Ads, World Models | Ep. 73

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Media Inference: Dippy's strategic shift to media inference underscores the rising demand for multimodal AI experiences, presenting significant opportunities for innovation and monetization beyond text-based interactions.
  2. Prioritize Specialized Models: Focus on developing specialized AI models tailored to specific use cases, leveraging proprietary data to create unique value propositions that outperform generic, multimodal solutions.
  3. Monetize with Embedded Ads: Explore embedding personalized, context-aware advertisements within AI interactions as a viable and scalable monetization strategy, acknowledging the limitations of subscription-based models for mass consumer adoption.
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December 5, 2025

AI & Central Planning Are Propping Up the Economy | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bet on sectors backed by government policy and secular themes like metals and mining to lower internal volatility and stay ahead of potential inflation.
  2. Be wary of the market structure, especially with highly concentrated assets like MAG7, as high-frequency trading can amplify price abnormalities and systemic risks.
  3. Watch for policy shifts and potential bottlenecks in capacity build-out, commodities, and labor in the AI and energy sectors, which could catalyze significant market changes.
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Crypto Podcasts

May 27, 2025

Travis Millott: Tao Templar, Bittensor Subnets, Dynamic Tao, Mining, Crypto Education | Ep. 44

Ventura Labs

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Dynamic Tao is High-Risk: Approach investments with extreme caution; the market is volatile, and significant capital loss is a tangible risk.
  2. Embrace Unpredictable Innovation: Bittensor's core value lies in its capacity to generate unforeseen, groundbreaking solutions from a global, permissionless, and competitive talent pool.
  3. Substrate Chain Decentralization is Critical: The successful decentralization of Bittensor's foundational layer is a paramount upcoming milestone for its long-term viability, security, and censorship resistance.
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May 26, 2025

The Bitcoin Treasury Playbook With Tyler Evans & Josh Solesbury

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Global Takeover: Bitcoin treasury strategies are rapidly globalizing, creating new Bitcoin-proxy investment vehicles in numerous capital markets.
  2. Investor Vigilance: While "Bitcoin plus" returns are alluring, investors must critically assess MNAV multiples and beware of highly leveraged companies lacking strong, transparent leadership.
  3. Reverse Tokenization is Real: Crypto assets are increasingly entering traditional finance via these public companies, fundamentally changing institutional access and perception.
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May 26, 2025

Why Analysts Are Valuing ETH All Wrong

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **L1s are Money, Not Stocks:** Stop trying to fit square pegs (L1s) into round holes (DCF models for companies). Their value accrues like money, through network effects and demand for their monetary properties.
  2. **RSOV is Your New Lens:** Use RSOV to gauge the "stickiness" of capital in an L1 ecosystem. A growing RSOV suggests a strengthening monetary base and potentially a rising valuation floor.
  3. **ETH's RSOV Story:** ETH, when viewed through the RSOV lens, appears undervalued relative to assets like Bitcoin, especially considering catalysts like EIP-4844 ("proto-danksharding") and the growth of its L2 ecosystem, which drives ETH's use as a store of value.
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May 23, 2025

Entering Ethereum’s New Era | Tomasz Stańczak

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Aggressive Scaling is Non-Negotiable: The EF is committed to exponential L1 scaling to support a vastly larger on-chain economy.
  2. TradFi Integration is Here: Ethereum is the prime venue for tokenizing real-world assets, bridging traditional finance with decentralized systems.
  3. A Renewed "Winning" Culture: The EF is adopting a more proactive, delivery-focused approach to ensure Ethereum's continued leadership and impact.
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May 23, 2025

Entering Ethereum’s New Era | Tomasz Stańczak

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Aggressive Execution: The Ethereum Foundation is adopting a "winning" mindset, prioritizing product delivery, engineering excellence, and rapid scaling (e.g., 3x annual gas limit increases).
  2. Deepening Capital Markets: Ethereum is solidifying its position as the primary settlement layer for RWAs and the burgeoning on-chain finance sector, attracting significant institutional interest.
  3. Innovation Frontier: Expect new waves of innovation in NFTs (tied to RWAs and AI) and enhanced L2 interoperability, driven by advancements like real-time ZK proofs.
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May 23, 2025

What’s Next for Our Precious Stablecoins?

blocmates.

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Stablecoin Shake-Up Looms: Circle's potential sale to Coinbase or Ripple could either fortify Tether's dominance or usher in a new, more controlled USDC, fundamentally altering the competitive landscape.
  2. Decentralization vs. Control: The Sui network freeze post-hack forces a hard look at crypto's soul—is absolute decentralization viable, or will pragmatic interventions become the norm?
  3. Institutional Inflows Demand Real Value: Beyond Bitcoin, the survival and growth of stablecoins and altcoins hinge on delivering tangible utility and robust security, not just speculative narratives.
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