ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Byron Reese closes the loop from stories to dice to rocks that think. Probability gave us numbers for future events; computer chips gave us machines that can model thousands of possible futures.
We get into Agora, the superintelligence built from accumulated human knowledge, then connect SimCity, spreadsheets, Tesla fleet learning, and my daughter’s stuffed-animal classroom to the same idea: models help us test what-if scenarios and choose a better future.
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