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Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning

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30:04

Ed West: visitor from a dying empire

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/11/01

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday Razib talks to Ed West, a British journalist and author. He has served as deputy editor of UnHerd and The Catholic Herald, and has written columns for The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph. He runs the Substack newsletter Wrong Side of History, where he explores culture, politics, and the longue durée of Western history. West is the author of books including Small Men on the Wrong Side of History and The Diversity

30:03

Noah Smith: Japanese and American politics

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/10/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday Razib talks to Noah Smith, an American economist-turned-blogger known for his commentary on economics and public policy. His blog, Noahpinion, is one of the most popular on Substack. He earned a PhD in economics at University of Michigan and served as an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook  University before leaving academia to become a full-time writer. He wrote a column for Bloomberg until 2021, when he

20:00

Coltan Scrivner: the evolution and psychology of horror

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2025/10/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday, Razib talks to Coltan Scrivner, a behavioral scientist, horror entertainment producer, and author, whose work centers on the psychological and evolutionary roots of our fascination with darkness, horror, and true crime. He is affiliated with the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. Scrivner also serves as the executive director of the Nightmare in the Ozarks Film Festival and founded the Eureka

20:00

Nate Soares: we are doomed (probably)

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2025/10/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday Razib talks to Nate Soares the President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). He joined MIRI in 2014 and has since authored many of its core technical agendas, including foundational documents like Agent Foundations for Aligning Superintelligence with Human Interests. Prior to his work in AI research, Soares worked as a software engineer at Google. He holds a B.S. in computer science and economics

14:58

Alexander Cortes: broscience, health science and...

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2025/10/02

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Alexander Cortes. Cortes is a trainer, fitness influencer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder, along with his wife, of Ferta, a company that aims to “optimize your reproductive health and conceive naturally.” Born and raised in California, Cortes began his career in the fitness industry as a personal trainer in 2010. Over the next few years he expanded his

15:02

Kat Rosenfield: after the vibe shift

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/09/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday on Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to Kat Rosenfield. She is an American novelist, journalist, and culture critic known for both her fiction and commentary on contemporary political debates. She began her career in publishing and as a reporter for MTV News before branching out into broader cultural criticism, contributing to outlets such as The New York Times, Wired, Vulture, Reason, and UnHerd. As a novelist,

20:00

Eric Kaufmann: a cultural revolution in winter

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/09/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday Razib talks to Eric Kaufmann, a Canadian professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, where he directs the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. He earned his BA from the University of Western Ontario and his MA and PhD from the London School of Economics. Prior to his current role, he held positions at the University of Southampton and Birkbeck, University of London, which he left in October 2023. He is

15:01

Ryan P. Williams: the Claremont Institute standing...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/09/12

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday Razib talks to Ryan P. Williams. He is president of The Claremont Institute, a position he has held since 2017. He is also a contributor to The Claremont Review of Books and started The American Mind. Williams earned a B.A. in political science and Economics from Hillsdale College and an M.A. in politics from Claremont Graduate University. He has taught American politics and political philosophy as an adjunct

14:58

Chad Orzel: the state of physics and academia in 2025

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2025/09/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comChad Orzel is a physicist and science writer who has been blogging for nearly twenty-five years. He’s the author of four books, Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects, How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog, How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog, Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist and A Brief History of Timekeeping. The last is a mix of cultural and engineering history, archeology and

83:47

Jonathan Anomaly and James Lee: is eugenics in our...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/08/28

Recently, the new embryo-selection start-up Herasight has been in the news, finally coming out of stealth. Part of the buzz is because of the public involvement of well-known geneticists and academics like Alex Young and Joe Pickrell in Herasight’s algorithm development. Additionally, Noor Siddiqi, the CEO of Orchid, a competitor to Herasight (and onetime advertiser on this podcast), was a guest on Ross Douthat’s show Interesting Times, triggering another round of conversations around

15:03

Jason Richwine: immigration moratorium now

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/08/21

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn last week’s episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib spoke with Alex Nowrestah, a vice president at the Cato Institute and a strong advocate for expanding legal immigration. This week, he turned to the other side of the debate with Jason Richwhine, a resident scholar at the Center for Immigration Studies and a vocal supporter of sharply reducing immigration.Richwine earned undergraduate degrees in mathematics and

14:59

Alex Nowrasteh: an immigration libertarian in Trump's...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/08/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comThree years ago, Razib recorded two podcasts with two immigration experts on different sides of the issue, Alex Nowrestah and Jason Richwhine. While Nowrasteh, who works for the libertarian Cato Institute as Vice President for Economic and Social Policy Studies, supports higher levels of legal immigration, Richwine, a Resident Scholar at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), favors lower levels of inflows into the US

9:58

John Hawks: varieties of humankind all mixed-up

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/08/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday on Unsupervised Learning, Razib talks to John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist who has been a researcher and commentator in human evolutionary biology and paleoanthropology for over two decades. With a widely read weblog (now on Substack), a book on Homo naledi, and highly cited scientific papers, Hawks is an essential voice in understanding the origins of our species. He graduated from Kansas State University in 1994

15:03

Noah Millman: from finance to the culture industry

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2025/08/01

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday Razib talks to Noah Millman. Millman is an American screenwriter and filmmaker, as well as a political columnist and cultural critic based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the film and theater critic for Modern Age; previously he was a columnist for The Week (2015–2022) and a senior editor at The American Conservative (2012–2017). Millman writes the newsletter Gideon’s Substack, and his work has also appeared in outlets

15:01

Cesar Fortes-Lima: the Fulani out of the Green Sahara

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2025/07/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to human geneticist Cesar Fortes-Lima about his paper from earlier this year, Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel. Fortes-Lima has a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, and his primary research areas include African genetic diversity, the African diaspora, the transatlantic slave trade, demographic inference, admixture dynamics and mass

15:02

Jack Despain Zhou: in defense of tracking

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/07/19

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Jack Despain Zhou, executive director of the Center for Educational Progress (CEP). Despain Zhou is a graduate of Western Governors University, and is completing his J.D. at Temple University. A former cryptographic analyst for the US Air Force, Despain Zhou is better known as a former producer for Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog at Blocked and Reported under the

80:34

Nikolai Yakovenko: the $200 million AI engineer

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/07/12

On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, in the wake of Elon Musk’s xAI Grok chatbot turning anti-Semitic following a recent update, Razib catches up with Nikolai Yakovenko about the state of AI in the summer of 2025. Nearly three years after their first conversations on the topic, the catch up, covering ChatGPT’s release and the anticipation of massive macroeconomic transformations driven by automation of knowledge-work. Yakovenko is a former professional poker player and research scientist at

15:00

David Van Ofwegen: a peripatetic philosopher across...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/07/09

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comToday on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to David van Ofwegen, a philosophy teacher based in Thailand. Razib and Ofwegen first met by chance while he was traveling in the US in 2003. A Dutch national, educated at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and then the University of Hawaii, specializing in the philosophical underpinnings of Social Darwinism, Ofwegen has been based in Thailand for the last 15 years.Razib

14:47

Claire Lehmann: after the Intellectual Dark Web

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/06/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to returning guest Claire Lehmann. Lehmann has an undergraduate degrees in psychology and English from the University of Adelaide. She was enrolled in a graduate program in psychology, but left it after becoming disillusioned with moral relativism, she went on to found the online magazine Quillette to reflect a more traditionally pro-reason and pro-evidence-based

15:08

Nathan Cofnas: Judaism's group evolutionary strategy...

Razib Khan"s Unsupervised Learning ·

2025/06/20

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.razibkhan.comOn this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to philosopher of science Nathan Cofnas, whose specialty is biology and ethics. An American, Cofnas is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Columbia University, and his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Oxford. His Substack is here.First, they

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