{"id":9356,"date":"2025-11-22T20:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T02:04:48","slug":"podcasts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=9356","title":{"rendered":"Podcasts!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 9-year-old named Kai (&#8220;The Quantum Kid&#8221;) and his mother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MhQ1TvsfQ3k\">interviewed me<\/a> about closed timelike curves, wormholes, Deutsch&#8217;s resolution of the Grandfather Paradox, and the implications of time travel for computational complexity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MhQ1TvsfQ3k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is actually one of my better podcasts (and only 24 minutes long), so check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a podcast I did a few months ago with &#8220;632nm&#8221; about P versus NP and my other usual topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EYyOSD4qdJQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those who <em>still<\/em> can&#8217;t get enough, here&#8217;s an interview about AI alignment for the &#8220;Hidden Layers&#8221; podcast that I did a year ago, and that I think I forgot to share on this blog at the time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5F9HB-46leo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What else is in the back-catalog?  Ah yes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/audio\/play\/w3ct6yf5\">the BBC interviewed me about quantum computing<\/a> for a segment on Moore&#8217;s Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you may have heard, Steven Pinker recently wrote a fantastic popular book about the concept of common knowledge, entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-Everyone-Knows-That-Knowledge\/dp\/1668011573\"><em>When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows&#8230;<\/em><\/a>  Steve&#8217;s efforts render largely obsolete my 2015 blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=2410\">Common Knowledge and Aumann&#8217;s Agreement Theorem<\/a>, one of the most popular posts in this blog&#8217;s history.  But I&#8217;m willing to live with that, not only because Steven Pinker is Steven Pinker, but also because he used my post as a central <em>source<\/em> for the topic.  Indeed, you should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardhanania.com\/p\/humor-the-causes-of-war-and-everything?utm_source=podcast-email&amp;publication_id=98102&amp;post_id=175559520&amp;r=8vlkn&amp;utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&amp;utm_content=watch_now_button&amp;triedRedirect=true\">watch his podcast with Richard Hanania<\/a>, where Steve lucidly explains Aumann&#8217;s Agreement Theorem, noting how he first learned about it from this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 9-year-old named Kai (&#8220;The Quantum Kid&#8221;) and his mother interviewed me about closed timelike curves, wormholes, Deutsch&#8217;s resolution of the Grandfather Paradox, and the implications of time travel for computational complexity: This is actually one of my better podcasts (and only 24 minutes long), so check it out! 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