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Revisionist History - The recent Alabama Murders story was a super interesting look into the death penalty.

The Colin & Samir show - interviews with Youtube creators. Recent John Johnson interview about doing stand up comedy for youtube was hilarious.

Lsat 12 months I listened to lots of Peter Attia, for health and aging information but not listening to him anymore because I found the Epstein emails problematic.

Latent Space gets a lot of play from me.

Darknet diaries is always great.

Corecursive, because I'm making it. Working on new episode about social media algorithms.

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Colin and Samir have some really in-depth videos with MrBeast which help document and explain his rise in fame, influence, and prominence. He's one of the most dedicated optimizers of our time, and he's been responsible for shaping the YouTube meta for years at this point. At this point a significant portion of his brain is probably fully allocated towards optimizing for the most engaging YouTube videos possible. The "24 hours with MrBeast" video helped contextualize his fame to me, it's really rock-star level. It's a shame that not many people engage with him on a more technical level, I think he would have a lot of interesting insights over which to nerd out about.

I agree, even more generally, in that if you think about any medium from a creator perspective there is so much more depth to it.

Pop music is not my thing, but I read a book about it, and the max martins and production function of these giant hits, and its endlessly fascinating optimization problems.

Seconding Latent Space. Very high signal. I listen to the audio version but it's on YouTube here as well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWEAb1SXhjlfkEF_PxzYH...

> Corecursive, because I'm making it.

That's very cool.

> Working on new episode about social media algorithms.

Will it not just be mainly recommender algorithms? I.e., machine learning?

Or do you have other specific algorithms in mind?

It will touch on EdgeRank, Youtube's next video selection and TikTok's innovations on that. And also on HNs post gravity.

But the big thing its about is how simple recommenders can lead to compelling and addictive consumption.

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