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The Cognitive Revolution
The Cognitive Revolution is a long-form conversation show on research and big ideas, hosted by Nathan Labenz, with a new episode a few times a week.
11 moments cut from 4 episodes, 3 with an AI builder talking, mostly on biology & drugs and safety & alignment.
- New episodes
- A few times a week
- Latest
- Oct 22, 2026
- Moments cut
- 11
- Episodes cut
- 4
What its moments are about
- Biology & drugs3
- Safety & alignment3
- AI agents3
- Enterprise AI3
- Frontier models2
- Inference & cost2
Best moments from The Cognitive Revolution
From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.
An intent model lets AI generate enterprise code deterministically
“you press a button to deterministically, or you ask Claude to do it, you deterministically generate the code”
The Cognitive Revolution8:45 Resampling every token shows where answers collapse
“there will be certain points in reasoning that the model was initially sort of at a 50% chance of this answer and 30% chance of this answer.”
The Cognitive Revolution7:55 Why an AI takeover is much harder than the rogue-agent panic suggests
“Where I get off the train is I think takeover is a lot harder than maybe the literal statement suggests.”
The Cognitive Revolution1:11:20 Cell models need information-rich data and useful inductive bias
“So what I think is possible now is an information theoretic model of the cell.”
The Cognitive Revolution16:38 Most enterprise workloads do not need frontier models
“the reality for most organizations today is that they don't need frontier models for their enterprise workloads, like almost none of enterprise workloads.”
The Cognitive Revolution29:14 Reasoning models enumerate options, then pick from the soup
Bigelow argues modern reasoning models fix the backtracking problem by listing every option, then choosing. He says reasoning is almost a misnomer for this.
The best The Cognitive Revolution episodes
Ranked as our lists rank shows: a point for each best minute we cut from it, one more when an AI builder is talking, and one more when it cleared our views bar.
- 01Software That Never Breaks: OutSystems CEO Woodson on Building Enterprise-Grade Apps at AI Speed
- 02A World Model of Life: Biohub's Alex Rives on Virtual Cells, Measurement, & the $1.8B Data Push
- 03Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI
- 04How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
The 4 guests we’ve cut
- Woodson MartinCEO, OutSystems8 moments
- Alex Reeves8 moments
- Alan ChanSenior research fellow, GovAI3 moments
- Eric BigelowMember of Technical Staff, Goodfire2 moments
Recent episodes
The Cognitive RevolutionAI’s Physical Bottlenecks: GPU Markets and the Chip Investment Thesis
488 views · Oct 22
- The Cognitive Revolution
Frontier AI and the Fight Over How to Pace It | Zvi Mowshowitz
Zvi Mowshowitz
1.3K views · Oct 21
- The Cognitive Revolution
A World Model of Life: Biohub's Alex Rives on Virtual Cells, Measurement, & the $1.8B Data Push
Alex Rives · Head of Science, Biohub
14:36of 1:04:00 · Oct 20 - The Cognitive Revolution
Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI
Alan Chan · Research Fellow, GovAI
1:10:05of 2:17:48 · Oct 14 - The Cognitive Revolution
How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
Eric Bigelow · Researcher, Goodfire
6:30of 2:00:51 · Oct 10 - The Cognitive Revolution
Software That Never Breaks: OutSystems CEO Woodson on Building Enterprise-Grade Apps at AI Speed
Woodson Martin · CEO, OutSystems
7:29of 1:10:12 · Oct 7
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