The economics of putting germicidal light in every room, with Misha Gurevich and Vivian Belenky of Aerolamp
In this episode, Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Misha Gurevich, CEO of Aerolamp, and Vivian Belenky, its chief scientist and a researcher at Columbia, to discuss why UVC, a wavelength of ligh...
6 Elo 1h 16min
Cheap cognition, supercharged surveillance, and AI risks, with Garrison Lovely
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Garrison Lovely, journalist and author of Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us and How to Stop It, to map the three-sided debate over ...
30 Heinä 1h 20min
What you're actually getting paid in, with Leila Clark
In this episode, Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Leila Clark, founder of Stardrift and formerly a software engineer at Jane Street, to discuss her essay "What Are You Getting Paid In?" They c...
23 Heinä 1h 4min
What LLMs can and can't do for writers, with Clara Collier of Asterisk Magazine
Patrick McKenzie is joined by returning guest Clara Collier, editor-in-chief of Asterisk Magazine, to discuss how working writers and reporters actually use LLMs. Patrick walks through the machinery b...
16 Heinä 1h 35min
YouTube economics now, with Justin Kuiper
In this episode of Complex Systems, Patrick McKenzie (patio11) is joined by Justin Kuiper, a longtime writer for MatPat's Game Theory family of channels and now creator of Proof Positive, to discuss t...
9 Heinä 1h 19min
The structural footprint of a bank run
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) reads his 2023 essay "Deposit Franchises as Natural Hedges," written seven weeks into that year's banking crisis, making the case that deposit franchises are a natural hedge...
2 Heinä 40min
Forty ways to pay for coffee in Japan
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) reads his 2021 essay "Payments in Japan," tracing how Japanese consumers navigate a landscape with dozens of competing payment methods at once: credit cards, electronic mone...
25 Kesä 35min
The factory behind your home loan
Patrick McKenzie reads from his 2022 Bits About Money essay on mortgages, making the case that a mortgage is best understood as a manufactured product, not a simple loan between a bank and a customer....
18 Kesä 26min
