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Podcast: ChinaTalk
Episode: CSET: How to Break the Think Tank Mold
Description: Dewey Murdick, director of CSET, discusses how the organization has brought a new level of rigor to hot topics ranging from chips to immigration and AI safety policy. We also discuss:
CSET's Map of Science and the fate of Google Scholar
Being beholden to the checkbooks of funders
Topics that make policymakers' eyes roll - but shouldn't
The optimal employment conditions for growing temperate, nice, low-ego, tasty fruit
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