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Dialectic

41: Henrik Karlsson: Strolling Through Life's Labrynths

Transcript and all linked references: https://dialectic.fm/henrik-2 Henrik Karlsson (Substack, X) is a writer and essayist. His newsletter, Escaping Flatland, explores attention, agency, relationships, and the inner life of making things. He is one of my favorite essayists, and I spoke to him previously on Dialectic 19: Cultivating a Life that Fits in Spring 2025. We met again in Copenhagen, this time on video. Our first conversation focused on designing your life iteratively and relationships. This time is about the messiness of creativity and problem-solving. We circle a central theme of navigating through the woods...

Mar 23, 2026

46 min read

Monetary Matters with Jack Farley

A Fertilizer Crisis is Brewing (Quickly) | StoneX’s Josh Linville on How Iran War & Strait of Hormuz Closure Has Shut of Critical Fertilizer Chemical Feedstocks That Threaten Global Grain Supply

Sponsor: Teucrium Corn Fund (NYSE Arca: CORN): https://teucrium.com/corn In this episode of Monetary Matters, StoneX Vice President Josh Linville explains how the Iran War and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have triggered a global fertilizer crisis that is currently crippling agricultural economics. With urea prices effectively doubling in just a few months, Josh warns that the market is facing a supply shock far more severe than the 2022 crisis because current grain prices aren't high enough to offset these surging input costs. The geopolitical bottleneck in the Persian...

Mar 22, 2026

28 min read

Monetary Matters with Jack Farley episode artwork

Dwarkesh Podcast

Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

We begin the episode with the absolutely ingenious and surprising way in which Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion.People sometimes say that AI will make especially fast progress at scientific discovery because of tight verification loops.But the story of how we discovered the shape of our solar system shows how the verification loop for correct ideas can be decades (or even millennia) long.During this time, what we know today as the better theory can actually make worse predictions.And the reasons it survives this epistemic hell is...

Mar 20, 2026

21 min read

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI

What happens when AI agents can design experiments, collect data, and improve — without a human in the loop? Andrej Karpathy joins Sarah Guo on the state of models, the future of engineering and education, thinking about impact on jobs, and his project AutoResearch: where agents close the loop on a piece of AI research (experimentation, training, and optimization, autonomously). 00:00 Andrej Karpathy Introduction 02:55 What Capability Limits Remain? 06:15 What Mastery of Coding Agents Looks Like 11:16 Second Order Effects of Natural Language Coding 15:51 Why AutoResearch 22:45 Relevant Skills in...

Mar 20, 2026

22 min read

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups episode artwork

The Hope Axis by Anna Gát

Say it Plainly

This week on The Hope Axis, I’m very happy to welcome Alastair Benn, deputy editor of Engelsberg Ideas. In this conversation, we talk about Scottish identity and language, the challenges of writing clearly in a “post-literate” age, and the editorial philosophy behind Engelsberg Ideas.We also discuss the idea of Bildung and Benn’s view of the editor as a mentor who helps writers turn strong ideas into clear, readable essays. Hope you enjoy.For the full transcript of our conversation, click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IZLw1IkUsu5Q5A-AbAf_mAJZKCUAkQjd/view?usp...

Mar 15, 2026

24 min read

The Hope Axis by Anna Gát episode artwork

Dialectic

41: Henrik Karlsson: Strolling Through Life's Labrynths

Transcript and all linked references: https://dialectic.fm/henrik-2 Henrik Karlsson (Substack, X) is a writer and essayist. His newsletter, Escaping Flatland, explores attention, agency, relationships, and the inner life of making things. He is one of my favorite essayists, and I spoke to him previously on Dialectic 19: Cultivating a Life that Fits in Spring 2025. We met again in Copenhagen, this time on video. Our first conversation focused on designing your life iteratively and relationships. This time is about the messiness of creativity and problem-solving. We circle a central theme of navigating through the woods...

Mar 23, 2026

46 min read

Monetary Matters with Jack Farley

A Fertilizer Crisis is Brewing (Quickly) | StoneX’s Josh Linville on How Iran War & Strait of Hormuz Closure Has Shut of Critical Fertilizer Chemical Feedstocks That Threaten Global Grain Supply

Sponsor: Teucrium Corn Fund (NYSE Arca: CORN): https://teucrium.com/corn In this episode of Monetary Matters, StoneX Vice President Josh Linville explains how the Iran War and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have triggered a global fertilizer crisis that is currently crippling agricultural economics. With urea prices effectively doubling in just a few months, Josh warns that the market is facing a supply shock far more severe than the 2022 crisis because current grain prices aren't high enough to offset these surging input costs. The geopolitical bottleneck in the Persian...

Mar 22, 2026

28 min read

Dwarkesh Podcast

Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery

We begin the episode with the absolutely ingenious and surprising way in which Kepler discovered the laws of planetary motion.People sometimes say that AI will make especially fast progress at scientific discovery because of tight verification loops.But the story of how we discovered the shape of our solar system shows how the verification loop for correct ideas can be decades (or even millennia) long.During this time, what we know today as the better theory can actually make worse predictions.And the reasons it survives this epistemic hell is...

Mar 20, 2026

21 min read

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI

What happens when AI agents can design experiments, collect data, and improve — without a human in the loop? Andrej Karpathy joins Sarah Guo on the state of models, the future of engineering and education, thinking about impact on jobs, and his project AutoResearch: where agents close the loop on a piece of AI research (experimentation, training, and optimization, autonomously). 00:00 Andrej Karpathy Introduction 02:55 What Capability Limits Remain? 06:15 What Mastery of Coding Agents Looks Like 11:16 Second Order Effects of Natural Language Coding 15:51 Why AutoResearch 22:45 Relevant Skills in...

Mar 20, 2026

22 min read

The Hope Axis by Anna Gát

Say it Plainly

This week on The Hope Axis, I’m very happy to welcome Alastair Benn, deputy editor of Engelsberg Ideas. In this conversation, we talk about Scottish identity and language, the challenges of writing clearly in a “post-literate” age, and the editorial philosophy behind Engelsberg Ideas.We also discuss the idea of Bildung and Benn’s view of the editor as a mentor who helps writers turn strong ideas into clear, readable essays. Hope you enjoy.For the full transcript of our conversation, click here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IZLw1IkUsu5Q5A-AbAf_mAJZKCUAkQjd/view?usp...

Mar 15, 2026

24 min read