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#063 Turning Discoveries Into Companies with Sam Arbesman of Lux Capital

Apr 25, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

4min

Who Are Your Heroes?

5min

The Half-Life of Facts

3min

The Importance of Verifiable Viability in Science

5min

The Lindy Effect and the Half Life

4min

The Uncertainty of Science

2min

The Future of Business Models

3min

The Importance of Timing the Transition Between Research and Startup

3min

The High-Dimensional Space of Research Organizations

2min

10.

The Role of DARPA in Speculative Technologies

4min

11.

The Importance of a Tech Tree

3min

12.

The Importance of Thinking and Switch

3min

13.

How Tech Transfer Offices Fit Into the Alternative Research World

3min

14.

The Disadvantages of University Tech Transfer

4min

15.

The Future of Education

5min

16.

The Semiotic Physics of Language Models

3min

17.

What Is Your Role as a Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital?

2min

18.

Lux's 10 Year History

4min

19.

The Evolution of Fitness

2min

20.

How to Corner the Market on Academic Excellence

2min

21.

The Space Between Physics and Complexity Science and Artificial Life

2min

22.

The Influence of Neil Stevenson on Sci-Fi

2min

23.

Banks's Culture Novels

3min

24.

The Lens Report: A Snarky Humerice Look at the Headlines That Fill Your Timeline Every Day

3min

Topics:

(00:04:26) - Who are your influences?

(00:08:57) - When Facts Expire: The Half-life of Knowledge

(00:22:57) - The Playbook behind Boston Dynamics and DeepMind

(00:28:36) - Research Orgs other than Academia, Govt, and Industry

(00:31:00) - DARPA and Speculative Technologies

(00:39:08) - Ink & Switch

(00:41:13) - Challenges of University Tech Transfer Offices

(00:47:42) - Transforming the future of Education

(00:52:20) - Using AI tools in day-to-day life

(00:55:40) - Sam’s job at Lux Capital

(00:58:07) - Overperforming and Underperforming Technologies

(01:02:33) - What mental models do you use most frequently?

(01:03:45) - How to corner the market on a high-tech skillset

(01:05:40) - Industries you’re watching that no one else is paying attention to?

(01:07:41) - Sci-Fi book recommendations

Links for more on Sam:

Sam on Tedx: The Half-Life of Facts

Sam’s books

Sam’s Website

Companies Mentioned:

Boston Dynamics

DeepMind

DARPA

Speculative Technologies

The Foresight Institute

Books Mentioned:

Why Greatness Cannot be Planned by Ken Stanley

The Three-Body Problem Trilogy by Cixin Liu

Neal Stephenson Books

Culture series by Iain Banks

Babel by R. F Kuang

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Don Swanson - Undiscovered Public Knowledge

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