The Orthogonal Bet by Lux Capital

The Computing Historian Recovering Ideas We Threw Away

Paul Rony on Lessons from Computer History

Apr 8 • The Orthogonal Bet

The Free Retreat Where Programmers Go to Escape — or Master — AI

Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock on the Recurse Center

Apr 1 • The Orthogonal Bet

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March 2026

Your Brain is NOT a digital computer

Corey Maley on the philosophy of science and computation

Mar 26 • The Orthogonal Bet

Beyond Slop

Why AI Art Is Getting Worse as It Gets Better

Mar 18 • The Orthogonal Bet

The Repugnant Conclusion

David Edmonds on the life and philosophy of Derek Parfit

Mar 6 • The Orthogonal Bet

February 2026

Edward Ashton on "After The Fall"

Edward Ashton on Domestication, the Great Filter, and Life After the Fall"

Feb 25 • The Orthogonal Bet

The Internet Was Never Inevitable

In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Lori Emerson, a professor of Media Studies at University of Colorado Boulder and the founding director of…

Feb 18 • The Orthogonal Bet

Can AT Protocol Fix Monolithic Platforms?

Brendan Schlagel on learning communities

Feb 11 • The Orthogonal Bet

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Roleplaying the Future

Scenario planning for high-uncertainty decisions

Feb 4 • The Orthogonal Bet

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January 2026

How Societies Collapse

Are We Already in a Slow Collapse?

Jan 28 • The Orthogonal Bet

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Dexter Palmer on Escaping the Literary Pigeonhole

From Retro Futurism to Historical Fiction

Jan 21 • The Orthogonal Bet

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The Case for Crazy Philanthropy

In this episode, Samuel Arbesman speaks with Stuart Buck , executive director of the Good Science Project—a think tank devoted to better understanding…

Jan 14 • The Orthogonal Bet

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