The Limitless Podcast (Limitless by Bankless)
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| Pub. Date | Title | Duration | |
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| 27 May 2025 | The Intelligence Curse: How AGI Makes Us All Obsolete | Luke Drago & Rudolf | 01:29:29 | |
Welcome to Limitless. Today we’re joined by Luke Drago and Rudolf, authors of the powerful essay series "The Intelligence Curse." Together, we explore a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) threatens to upend the economic and social contracts that underpin modern civilization. Will AI empower us or make us obsolete? We unpack how labor-replacing AI could dismantle the very incentives that once gave rise to liberal democracies, social mobility, and human-centered innovation—and what it might take to build a future worth living in. ------ ------ 0:00 What is the Intelligence Curse ------ Luke Drago Rudolf Laine Intelligence Curse Time Op-ed Contact Form AI Snake Oil - Arvind Narayanan Vitalik’s Defensive Accelerationism ------ | |||
| 12 May 2025 | Shaun Maguire: This Is Far Bigger Than The Internet Boom | 01:28:13 | |
Shaun Maguire, partner at Sequoia and former physicist turned investor, joins the Limitless Podcast to explore why we’re on the verge of a technological renaissance. From AI and silicon photonics to humanoid robots and space infrastructure, Shaun makes the case that the next 20 years will make the internet boom look tame. We dive deep into why America needs 10 SpaceX-level companies, the return of hardware innovation, the energy constraints of the future, and how frontier technologies like Neuralink and Mars colonization might reshape civilization. ------ ------ 0:00 Intro ------ Shaun Maguire Sequoia Capital Josh Kale David Hoffman ------ | |||
| 08 May 2025 | Welcome to Limitless | 00:01:59 | |
Welcome to The Limitless Podcast, a show about frontier technologies. New shows Monday and Thursday on right here on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify 📢 Follow Limitless on X https://x.com/LimitlessFT 🎬Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@Limitless-FT | |||
| 08 May 2025 | The Age of Hyper Acceleration: AI, AGI & Beyond! | 01:08:52 | |
AI isn't just growing—it's skyrocketing us into an unprecedented era of hyper-acceleration. Josh Kale joins us to explore how breakthroughs in intelligence, from protein sequencing and synthetic biology to autonomous transportation and energy abundance, are reshaping our world at dizzying speeds. Prepare for a future that's closer than you think, where the cost of intelligence approaches zero and possibilities become boundless. ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 3:48 Exponential Human Progress 7:50 Moore’s Law vs Huang’s Law 15:17 Synthetic Biology 20:37 Economic Impact 23:17 Job Market 31:02 Self-Driving Cars 33:33 Aviation 35:43 Energy 41:10 David Deutsch 45:42 Electricity & Income 51:20 Nuclear Energy 54:46 The Unibomber 1:01:09 Defensive Accelerationism 1:03:06 Robotics 1:06:14 Closing & Disclaimers ------ RESOURCES Josh Kale https://x.com/Josh_Kale The Beginning of Infinity https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Transform-World/dp/0143121359 ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures | |||
| 04 Jun 2025 | AI DEBATE: Runaway Superintelligence or Normal Technology? | Daniel Kokotajlo vs Arvind Narayanan | 01:09:46 | |
Two visions for the future of AI clash in this debate between Daniel Kokotajlo and Arvind Narayanan. Is AI a revolutionary new species destined for runaway superintelligence, or just another step in humanity’s technological evolution—like electricity or the internet? Daniel, a former OpenAI researcher and author of AI 2027, argues for a fast-approaching intelligence explosion. Arvind, a Princeton professor and co-author of AI Snake Oil, contends that AI is powerful but ultimately controllable and slow to reshape society. Moderated by Ryan and David, this conversation dives into the crux of capability vs. power, economic transformation, and the future of democratic agency in an AI-driven world. ------ ------ 0:00 Intro ------ Daniel Kokotajlo Arvind Narayanan Two Paths For AI - Daniel AI as Normal Technology - Arvind AI 2027 - Daniel AI Snake Oil - Arvind Pause AI ------ | |||
| 02 Jun 2025 | How Nuclear Solves the Energy Problem | Valar Atomics' Isaiah Taylor | 01:07:35 | |
In this episode, Isaiah Taylor, co-founder of Valor Atomics, emphasizes the pivotal role of energy as the foundational currency of civilization. He argues that overcoming energy constraints can unlock limitless creativity and innovation. Isaiah shares his journey from high school dropout to nuclear innovator, advocating for nuclear fission and modular reactors as key solutions for sustainable energy. He envisions a future with abundant energy impacting daily life, enabling entrepreneurs, and facilitating space exploration. Isaiah underscores the need for innovative thinkers to bring nuclear energy into the mainstream, inspiring optimism for a transformative future. ------ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Start
Isaiah: https://x.com/isaiah_p_taylor Valar Atomics: https://www.valaratomics.com/ David: https://x.com/trustlessstate Josh: https://x.com/Josh_Kale ------ | |||
| 08 May 2025 | AI Robots and The $10T Arms Race | 01:16:06 | |
Welcome to the AI Rollup, from the Limitless Podcast. David, Ejaaz, and Josh break down the week’s most important AI headlines, from OpenAI’s $3B Windsurf acquisition and Google’s full-stack AI play, to Visa and Mastercard preparing for agentic commerce. We explore the state of robotics, major interpretability challenges, and why the race to AGI may outpace our ability to understand it. Plus: AI ASMR, glow-up GPT, and why autonomous agents still kinda suck. Stay curious, this one’s stacked. ------ TIMESTAMPS & RESOURCES 00:00:00 Intro To Limitless! 00:04:23 OpenAI Makes Huge Acquisition 00:08:01 Why Spend $3 Billion?? 00:16:09 OpenAI Memory Update Is... Interesting 00:23:56 OpenAI Re-Structuring 00:37:24 Visa Credit Cards For AI Agents 00:43:21 The Crypto Bull Case 00:45:43 The Deca Trillion Robot Opportunity 00:52:44 Dogs With Machine Guns 00:58:11 Using AI To Do Your Job 01:02:12 The Interpretability Talk 01:09:18 AI Neurons? 01:15:27 The Dopamine Section ------ | |||
| 22 May 2025 | Will Google's Veo 3 Destroy Hollywood?! | Everything Announced At Google I/O | 01:08:50 | |
Google’s Veo 3 is spitting out blockbuster-grade videos with actors that talk, while Tesla’s Optimus learns new dance moves by binge-watching YouTube. In this week’s AI Rollup we race through the avalanche of announcements from Google I/O, OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft and ask: are we witnessing the dawn of an endless creativity boom…or turbo-charged P-Doom? Buckle up. ------ 00:00:00 Hollywood In a Prompt ------ David: https://x.com/trustlessstate Josh: https://x.com/Josh_Kale Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213 ------ | |||
| 29 May 2025 | The New OpenAI Gadget Will Change The World | AI Calls The Cops | AI Agent OnlyFans | 01:03:05 | |
Johnny Ive is back—this time with a $6.5 billion OpenAI partnership to build the “iPhone-killer” of the AI era. In this episode we break down what Ive’s new hardware could look like, why OpenAI is racing to ship 100 million units by 2027, and what it means for Apple’s fading Siri strategy. We also dive into the week’s wildest model news: Anthropic’s Claude 4 threatening to snitch, OpenAI’s 0.3 refusing to shut down, and a squad of AI agents that tried everything from cat-video binges to OnlyFans to raise money for charity. Strap in for a rapid tour of AI hardware hype, rogue-model antics, and the coming battle for the next great computing platform. ------ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 The New AI Device
David: https://x.com/trustlessstate Josh: https://x.com/Josh_Kale Ejaaz: https://x.com/cryptopunk7213 ------ | |||
| 15 May 2025 | Apple's $200B Gut Punch To Google! The AI War Just Escalated | 01:05:30 | |
This week’s AI Rollup is a ringside ticket to the highest-stakes tech brawl on earth. David, Ejaaz and Josh unpack Apple’s threat to yank Google from Safari, the $200 billion market-cap gut-punch that followed, and Microsoft’s tangled profit-share web with OpenAI. Plus why Sam Altman just hired Instacart’s former CEO to turn raw AGI power into everyday apps. They demo the newest frontier models (Gemini 2.5 Flash, China’s trillion-parameter DeepSeek-R2) and explain how cheaper tokens and home-grown Huawei chips could upend the GPU monopoly. Finally, the crew dives into crypto’s AI-agent boom, from VirtuaL launchpad mania to decentralized training networks that promise an open-source Plan B for humanity’s future intelligence. Tune in for the only AI recap you'll need this week. David: https://x.com/trustlessstate ------ ------ 00:00:00 AI Game Of Thrones 00:12:59 How To Maximize Use Of AI 00:16:33 The Microsoft Empire 00:21:41 Is OpenAI Actually Winning? 00:27:00 OpenAI's New CEO 00:33:33 New Frontier Models 00:39:56 Model Aggregator 00:47:22 DeepSeek R2 Is... Insane? 00:54:02 Crypto AI Agents 01:00:21 Decentralized Training ------ | |||
| 19 May 2025 | AI Will Take Your Job in 3 Years: Your Playbook to Survive (& Thrive) | Arjun Bhuptani | 01:00:28 | |
We explore why the job market may never look the same again, the rising tide of AI-augmented competition, and what individuals can do to adapt and thrive in the face of rapidly advancing automation. This isn’t just a doomer take — it’s a roadmap for navigating a future that's arriving faster than we think. ------ 💫 LIMITLESS | SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW https://pod.link/1813210890 https://www.youtube.com/@Limitless-FT https://x.com/LimitlessFT ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 2:01 Is Humanity Doomed? 5:04 Should We Go Off-Grid? 12:42 AI’s Impact On Labor 22:02 Don’t Panic 34:46 AI’s Exponential Progress 42:44 Global Level 50:48 Marc Andreessen’s Take 1:01:55 Closing & Disclaimers ------ RESOURCES Arjun Arjun Thread https://x.com/arjunbhuptani/status/1904171348525752537 Marc Andreesen’s Take https://x.com/vitrupo/status/1917401485530521945 Josh David ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures | |||