The Brandon Adams Podcast

About The Brandon Adams Podcast

As AI evolves, humans must relearn faster than their tools improve. The AI Metagame is a podcast from 5HC.ai about strategic adaptation: how smart people unlearn, rebuild, and find durable advantage when the ground keeps shifting. I will be doing weekly interviews with major figures on the AI learning journey and how you can position your organization for AI success. You can find me on social @badams78 (twitter) and @brandonadams78 (insta). Find 5HC at www.5HC.ai

Publisher

Brandon Adams

Category

news · technology · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Oct 2019

Latest episode

19 May 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 57 episodes have a transcript.

1. 19 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The AI Metagame: Episode 05 with Nate Silver and Raf Michalowski

   Host Brandon Adams interviews forecaster Nate Silver and digital media builder Raf Michalowski about AI slop and the future of the content industry.

2. 7 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The AI Metagame: Episode 04 with Lev Milman

   Episode 4 | The 600,000-Claim Brain: How Lev Milman Uses AI to Map Reality How do you stay ahead of the curve when the "curve" is moving at the speed of light? In this episode, we sit down with Lev Milman, a former U20 US Chess Champion and macro trader, to explore his radical, AI-driven approach to information processing and belief updating. Lev has constructed a massive digital knowledge base consisting of over 600,000 atomic claims about the world. He doesn't just "read the news"—he has built a sophisticated "information funnel" that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to ingest, grade, and de-duplicate content from over 1,300 RSS feeds, hundreds of YouTube channels, Twitter, Discord, and academic journals. We dive into: The "Greater" and the "Deduper": How Lev uses AI to filter out 80% of incoming noise and focus only on information with high novelty and belief-update potential. Hyper-Speed Learning: Lev’s workflow for "listening" to thousands of words of summarized research at 4.5x speed using custom text-to-speech setups, often while multitasking. The Chess Champion’s Edge: How a childhood spent studying chess for 10 hours a day wired his brain for the deep, contingency-based reasoning required to navigate the AI frontier. Actionable Intelligence: Moving from curiosity-driven learning to a practical framework where information is rated by how much it changes his decisions in fields like AI development and health. Lev makes a compelling case that in the AI era, the ultimate competitive advantage isn't just knowing more—it's having a superior system for updating what you believe.

3. 19 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The AI Metagame: Episode 03 with Haralabos Voulgaris

   Host Lex Fridman interviews professional gambler Haralabos Voulgaris about leveraging AI for market advantage and the critical role of physical infrastructure in the AI race.

Inside a recent episode

[…] So that's the beauty of these platforms, like in Twitter is another one, right? Where people can, you know, build content and just get automatically monetized. But these platforms, when they when they when they tie together distribution and monetization, they kind of create these perverse incentive structures, right? And you see that on YouTube, well, you see it on YouTube with me, right? And then you see it a lot on Twitter where, you know, people operating accounts, they're not interested in spreading truth, they're interested in engagement, right? So that means rage -baiting, saying things that aren't true, right? […]

Who has been a guest on The Brandon Adams Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Nate Silver
• Raf Michalowski
• Haralabos Voulgaris
• Bryan Pellegrino
• Kory Kilpatrick

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

82 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 32 / 100

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Quality

44

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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