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Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
New Jan 07, 2026 1h 1m

Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work

At 22, Brendan Foody is both the youngest Conversations with Tyler guest ever and the youngest unicorn founder on record. His company Mercor hires the experts who train frontier AI models—from poet...

Conversations with Tyler 2025 Retrospective
Dec 23, 2025 59 min

Conversations with Tyler 2025 Retrospective

Help us keep the conversations going in 2026. Donate to Conversations with Tyler today. On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and producer Jeff Holmes look back on the past year on CWT and...

Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other
Dec 03, 2025 1h 32m

Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other

Help us keep the conversations going in 2026. Donate to Conversations with Tyler today. Dan Wang argues that China is a nation of engineers while America is a nation of lawyers, and this distincti...

Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI
Nov 26, 2025 1h 19m

Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI

Cass Sunstein is one of the most widely cited legal scholars of all time and among the most prolific writers working today. This year alone he has five books out, including Imperfect Oracle on the...

Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism
Nov 12, 2025 57 min

Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism

Register for the Austin listener meetup Donald S. Lopez Jr. is among the foremost scholars of Buddhism, whose work consistently distinguishes Buddhist reality from Western fantasy. A professor at ...

Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures
Sep 03, 2025 54 min

Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures

Seamus Murphy is an Irish photographer and filmmaker who has spent decades documenting life in some of the world's most challenging places—from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to Nigeria's Boko Ha...

Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies
Aug 13, 2025 1h 3m

Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies

In his third appearance on Conversations with Tyler, Nate Silver looks back at past predictions, weighs how academic ideas such as expected utility theory fare in practice, and examines the world o...

Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities
Jul 23, 2025 1h 7m

Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities

Helen Castor is a British historian and BBC broadcaster who left Cambridge because she wanted to write narrative history focused on individuals rather than the analytical style typical of academia....