Episode #2344
Amjad Masad
Books mentioned
Infinite Jest
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The Three-Body Problem
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Starting Strength
Mentioned by Amjad Masad · at 02:32:02 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, discusses his path from early computing in Jordan to building an AI-powered coding platform. The conversation ranges across technology’s societal effects, AI’s future, free speech, the Gaza conflict, and personal disciplines like jiu-jitsu.
What they talked about
- Video games and surgeon performance
- Quitting drinking and fitness
- Replit and AI-assisted programming
- Fascism as reaction to communism
- Managerial revolution theory
- Morphic resonance and consciousness
- COVID vaccine criticism and institutional trust
- Alzheimer's research fraud
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