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Ep. 268 - Pascal's Mugging, Doomsday Clocks, and the AGI Debate

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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The Exponential Decay Wins the Polynomial Blowup

A gamma function combines an exponential decay with a polynomial blowup. It's also a very mathematically nice distribution, particularly if you're looking at positive numbers. Next week we'll talk to an engineer from the company ASML who does semiconductor manufacturing. In other words, Moore's Law forward.

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