The Sunday Times’s tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Augustus Doricko to talk about becoming a Thiel fellow (3:15), looking for the proof of God (5:45), starting his first company (9:30) cloud seeding (11:30), the history of cloud seeding (13:30), on whether silver iodide is safe (17:00), how it would work in practice (20:30), how it could go wrong (27:30), geo-engineering (30:45), why now (23:15), the Dubai example (35:00), and finding God (38:45).
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Primer’s Sean Gourley: “AI is the biggest change to war since the internal combustion engine”
Earth’s Tom Harries: “Turning people into soil”
UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell: “ChatGPT is a wake-up call”
Character.ai's Noam Shazeer: "Replacing Google - and your mom"
Forum Mobility’s Matt LeDucq: “Electrifying trucking”
Giant's Cameron McLain: "Buddhism, music and venture capital"
Now's Lara Hodgson: "Don't follow your passion"
Mammoth’s Trevor Martin: “Programming the code of life”
Formic’s Saman Farid: “A robot arm can do the work of eight humans”
TrueMed’s Calley Means: “Sugar, kids, and the crime of the century”
Frore's Seshu Madhavapeddy: "Centuries-old tech and the tyranny of heat"
Akili's Eddie Martucci: "The world's first prescription video game"
Benedict Evans: “What Chat GPT is - and isn’t”
Kernel's Bryan Johnson: “Dinner at 11:00 am and reversing age”
SciFi Foods' Joshua March: "Brewing a $1 lab-grown burger”
Neoplants' Lio Mora & Partick Torbey: "A houseplant that eats carcinogens"
Obvious Ventures’ Andrew Beebe: “Do stuff that matters”
Mayfield's Navin Chaddha: “The best companies get bought, not sold”
Blackrock Neurotech's Marcus Gerhardt: "An inflection point for brain-computer interfaces"
Checkerspot’s Charles Dimmler: “Using algae to make skis”
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