# The Peterman Pod

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/shows/peterman-pod/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

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The Peterman Pod is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Ryan Peterman, with a new episode every week.

3 moments cut from one episode, mostly on science & math and evals & benchmarks.

Also [No. 16 of 18 tech podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/tech-podcasts/#peterman-pod).

- [Ryan Peterman](https://realalpha.app/hosts/)

**New episodes**

Weekly

**Latest**

Oct 19, 2026

**Moments cut**

3

**Episodes cut**

1

What its moments are about

- Science & math 3
- Evals & benchmarks 1
- Frontier models 1
- Scaling laws 1

## Best moments from The Peterman Pod

From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.

1. The Peterman Pod · Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min
   **[Why AI is best at finding counterexamples to conjectures](https://realalpha.app/s/why-ai-is-best-at-finding-counterexamples-to-conjectures/)**
   Aaronson explains that AI excels at disproving long-held conjectures because it has no preconceptions and the search parallelizes. He then shows how critics keep moving the goalposts.
2. The Peterman Pod · Oct 12, 2026 · 4 min
   **[Why AI disclosure matters: the path to a proof is the value](https://realalpha.app/s/why-ai-disclosure-matters-the-path-to-a-proof-is-the-value/)**
   > “You care not just about the destination, but about the journey, right? How did you get there okay”
   The Peterman Pod [29:32](https://realalpha.app/v/ORlscppGGh4/?t=1772)
3. The Peterman Pod · Oct 12, 2026 · 4 min
   **[OpenAI's $15M Navier-Stokes proof and how credit will work](https://realalpha.app/s/openais-15m-navier-stokes-proof-and-how-credit-will-work/)**
   > “They put like 15 million dollars of compute into solving this one million dollar problem.”
   The Peterman Pod [16:17](https://realalpha.app/v/ORlscppGGh4/?t=977)

## The guest we’ve cut

- [Scott Aaronson](https://realalpha.app/people/scott-aaronson/) Professor of computer science, UT Austin 3 moments

## Recent episodes

- The Peterman Pod
  **[Microsoft Distinguished Eng: His Principal Engineer Promotion Story | David Fowler](https://realalpha.app/v/a2G58axJZOc/)**
  David Fowler · Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft
  8.6K views · Oct 21
- The Peterman Pod
  **[The Story Behind Creating DNS | Paul Mockapetris](https://realalpha.app/v/LT4iVeUoL18/)**
  Paul Mockapetris · Creator of DNS
  14.6K views · Oct 19
- The Peterman Pod
  **[Scott Aaronson: The Mathocalypse, Will Intelligence Matter Anymore?](https://realalpha.app/v/ORlscppGGh4/)**
  Scott Aaronson · Quantum Computing Researcher
  [23:03](https://realalpha.app/v/ORlscppGGh4/?t=1383) of 1:01:03 · Oct 12

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