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Bryan Caplan is a George Mason University economist who challenges conventional thinking on democracy, education, parenting, and immigration, using theory, empirical evidence, and public bets to examine voter irrationality and the signaling value of college degrees.
Scott Aaronson is a theoretical computer scientist studying quantum computers, from the boundaries of BQP to statistical watermarks for AI text. His work joins rigorous thinking about information and computation with a practiced instinct for debunking scientific hype.
Robin Hanson is a George Mason University economist and co-author of The Elephant in the Brain, studying hidden status motives, social signaling, and cultural drift while proposing futarchy, a system that grounds government decisions in prediction markets.
Adam Gleave is FAR AI’s CEO and an AI alignment researcher who showed that unpredictable adversaries can defeat trained reinforcement-learning agents. The finding sharpens his work on machine vulnerabilities, governance, and career paths for a mature safety discipline.
Travis VanderZanden helped scale Lyft and Uber before founding Bird and popularizing dockless electric scooters as substitutes for short car trips. His experience frames questions about startup scaling, urban infrastructure, and a later move into cryptocurrency.
Tyler Cowen is an economist and Marginal Revolution co-author whose Great Stagnation theory links slower American growth to exhausted easy breakthroughs. His broader frameworks connect talent identification, economic analysis, and cultural understanding across unusually varied subjects.
Anton Troynikov is CEO and co-founder of American Terawatt and co-founder of Chroma. His work examines AI memory, embeddings, retrieval, long-context reliability, and practical machine-learning infrastructure.
Alex Albert is a researcher and developer relations leader known for early prompt-engineering work and Jailbreak Chat. At Anthropic, he helps developers build safely with Claude, joining prompting, security, tool integration, product development, and practical code shipping.