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Danny In The Valley

By: The Sunday Times
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  • After more than a decade in London, Danny Fortson returns to Silicon Valley to meet the techies trying to change the world - and make loads of money while doing it.

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Episodes
  • Conservation X Labs’ Alex Deghan: “Why go to Mars? it’s a failed version of earth”

    Conservation X Labs’ Alex Deghan: “Why go to Mars? it’s a failed version of earth”
    Jul 19 2024
    The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Alex Deghan, founder of Conservation X Labs, to talk about avoiding the sixth mass extinction (3:00), getting near a tipping point in the Amazon (11:40), raising money from tech billionaires (14:40), growing up in northern Idaho (17:50), almost dying from malaria (20:00), rebuilding science in Iraq (23:30), close calls (30:40), setting up the first national park in Afghanistan (33:10), optimism (39:15), air conditioning (42:15), and building their own products (47:10).

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    51 mins
  • UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “AI is a misinformation amplifier”

    UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “AI is a misinformation amplifier”
    Jul 12 2024
    The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Hany Farid, a digital forensic professor, to talk about launching a cybersecurity startup called Get Real Labs (3:00), the growing capability of AI to create totally believable images (6:45), and video (9:00), the Slovakia election example (12:00), the end of shared truth (15:30), why we might learn the lessons from social media regulation failures (20:50), how AI could make things far worse, pre and post election in America (23:45), and how he managed to start a company while also being a university professor (27:00).

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    34 mins
  • Deep Sky’s Fred Lalonde - Holiday replay!

    Deep Sky’s Fred Lalonde - Holiday replay!
    Jul 6 2024
    Happy July 4th! Running back one of our favorite episodes from last summer - Fred Lalonde of Deep Sky, who speaks eloquently about the need to bury every ton of CO2 emitted since the Industrial Revolution. Enjoy!

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    1 hr and 15 mins
Economics
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