In the inaugural episode of the cleverly named Virginia’s Podcast, which complements the cleverly named Virginia’s Newsletter, I talk with Dean Ball. Dean writes the excellent Hyperdimensional on Substack and is a research fellow in the Artificial Intelligence and Progress Project at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. It’s a wide-ranging conversation and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Check out the show notes for an outline of the conversation and links to some of the things we mention. There’s also a transcript, thanks to Substack’s AI, which is astoundingly good at making a transcript. In the future, I plan to make transcripts a paid feature but I’m including everyone initially. I welcome your comments and ideas for the podcast.Show Notes:When I created the podcast, Substack showed the show notes in a sidebar, along with the transcript. But I don’t see where they might be so I’m adding them after the fact.Writing by Dean Ball: “California’s Effort to Strangle AI”: “How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence” National Affairs: “Learning to Love the Inscrutable” (review of How Life Works): Other references: SB 1047: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047 Virginia’s review of Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson: Fei-Fei Li’s Stanford page The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li: The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich Hayek The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek Rationalism in Politics by Michael Oakeshott Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser Virginia’s article on materials libraries Brian Potter, Construction Physics: Patrick McKenzie, patio11 How Life Works by Philip Ball Get full access to Virginia's Newsletter at vpostrel.substack.com/subscribe