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The Joe Walker Podcast

Joe Walker

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Joe Walker hosts refreshingly in-depth conversations with founders, scientists, scholars, economists, and public intellectuals.

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Episodes (135)

The Geostrategic Case for Compute in Australia — Janet Egan [Compute Series]

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Aug 26, 20261:44:14pending

Australia's Plan to Turn Compute Into Sovereign AI — Dr Andrew Charlton MP [Comp...

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Aug 16, 20262:00:26pending

Compute in Australia: Announcing my new podcast series

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Aug 16, 20266:45pending

"Just because I consulted doesn't mean I didn't dominate": How prime ministers r...

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Jun 23, 20261:36:42pending

How Can Australia Get a Piece of the AI Action? — Danielle Wood

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Jun 3, 20261:38:48pending

How Australia Actually Selects and Integrates Migrants — Mike Pezzullo [Immigrat...

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May 21, 20263:22:39pending

"Bigger and Different": The Six Decades That Remade Australia — Mark Cully [Immi...

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May 21, 20262:27:53pending

"We've built an economy that requires 2 million temporary migrants" — Martin Par...

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May 19, 20262:18:34pending

2025 Retrospective — A Listener (Zac Gross) Interviews Me

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Dec 31, 20251:18:49pending

Cabinet is Australia's Operating System — Here's How It Works (Glyn Davis & Terr...

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Dec 22, 20252:31:34pending

Why Great Powers Sleepwalk to War — A Masterclass with Prof. Hugh White

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Nov 25, 20254:31:32pending

Australia's last great act of economic courage — Peter Costello

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Nov 2, 20251:38:34pending

The Discovery of The Bacterium Behind 5% of All Cancers — Barry Marshall

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Aug 26, 20252:21:24pending

Australia’s ‘Great Stagnation’: Everything You Need to Know About The Productivi...

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Aug 14, 20252:57:47pending

Francis Fukuyama — AGI and the Recommencement of History

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Jul 31, 20251:18:11pending

Laura Deming — On Pausing Biological Time & Preserving the Continuous Self

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May 20, 20251:17:02pending

Eight Things I Learned From My Aussie Policy Series

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May 11, 202548:09pending

Ken Henry — What Killed the Reform Era? [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

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May 1, 20252:18:26pending

Sam Roggeveen — Why the US Won't Fight China for Dominance (and What it Means fo...

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Apr 2, 20251:54:31pending

Peter Tulip — What Will It Actually Take to Solve the Housing Crisis? [Aus. Poli...

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Mar 25, 20251:45:01pending

Judith Brett — How a Benthamite Political Culture Shaped Australia's Electoral S...

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Mar 14, 20251:25:55pending

Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton — How Australia Gets It Done [Aus. Policy Serie...

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Mar 4, 20251:57:40pending

Andrew Leigh — Inequality and Egalitarianism [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

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Feb 14, 20251:29:23pending

Abul Rizvi — Inside Immigration Policy [Aus. Policy Series - LIVE]

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Jan 31, 20251:42:05pending

Behind the Scenes of My Interview Research Process — Andy Matuschak Crashes My C...

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Jan 25, 20251:42:51pending

Eugene Fama — For Whom Is The Market Efficient?

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Dec 31, 202455:18pending

Richard Butler — Nuclear Diplomacy at the End of History

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Nov 29, 20242:31:33pending

Larry Summers — AGI and the Next Industrial Revolution

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Oct 21, 202448:52pending

Nassim Taleb — Meditations on Extremistan

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Sep 19, 20242:05:05pending

Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural A...

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Aug 13, 20242:23:59pending

Lucy Turnbull — Urbanism, YIMBYism, and Solutions to Australia's Housing Crisis...

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May 30, 202446:43pending

Bryan Caplan — The Economics of Housing Abundance

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May 13, 20241:50:14pending

2023 Retrospective — A Listener Interviews Me

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Dec 29, 20231:47:48pending

David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), & The...

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Dec 19, 20231:55:40pending

Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India

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Nov 28, 20232:45:00pending

Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences

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Nov 1, 20231:51:50pending

Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets

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Sep 19, 20231:54:39pending

Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next)

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Aug 30, 20231:41:45pending

Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm

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Aug 16, 20234:24:06pending

Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution

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Aug 1, 20232:03:50pending

Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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Jul 25, 20233:42:20pending

Ken Henry — An Economic Odyssey

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May 9, 20234:35:09pending

Palmer Luckey — Science (Non)fiction

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Apr 25, 20231:39:19pending

Daniel Kahneman — Dyads, And Other Mysteries

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Apr 13, 20231:13:07pending

Talent Is That Which Is Scarce — Tyler Cowen

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Dec 31, 202248:21pending

Intellectual Exoskeletons — Andy Matuschak

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Dec 23, 20222:08:54pending

Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker

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Dec 14, 202252:32pending

Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch

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Apr 24, 20221:39:02pending

The Lessons Of Afghanistan — William Dalrymple

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Sep 5, 202158:12pending

The Race That Stopped The Nation — Richard Holden & Steven Hamilton

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Aug 30, 20211:55:17pending