Hear This Idea
By Fin Moorhouse and Luca Righetti
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Episodes: 82
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Hear This Idea is a podcast showcasing new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. Each episode has an accompanying write-up at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes.
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#76 – Joe Carlsmith on Scheming AI
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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#75 – Eric Schwitzgebel on Digital Consciousness and the Weirdness of the World
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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#74 – Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley on Barriers to Bioweapons
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Bonus: 'How I Learned To Love Shrimp' & David Coman-Hidy
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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#73 – Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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#72 – Richard Bruns on Indoor Air Quality
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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#71 – Saloni Dattani on Malaria Vaccines and Missing Data in Global Health
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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#70 – Liv Boeree on Healthy vs Unhealthy Competition
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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#69 – Jon Y (Asianometry) on Problems And Progress in Semiconductor Manufacturing
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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#68 – Steven Teles on what the Conservative Legal Movement Teaches about Policy Advocacy
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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#67 – Guive Assadi on Whether Humanity Will Choose Its Future
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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#66 – Michael Cohen on Input Tampering in Advanced RL Agents
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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#65 – Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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#64 – Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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#63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance
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May 13, 2023 |
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#62 – Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering, Value Diversity, and Grand Futures
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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#61 – Rory Stewart on GiveDirectly and Massively Scaling Cash Transfers
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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#60 – Jaime Sevilla on Trends in Machine Learning
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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#59 – Chris Miller on the History of Semiconductors, TSMC, and the CHIPS Act
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Bonus: Preventing an AI-Related Catastrophe
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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#58 – Carl Robichaud on Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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#57 – Greg Nemet on Technological Change and How Solar Became Cheap
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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#56 – Dewi Erwan on BlueDot Impact and Scaling High-Impact Organisations
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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#55 – Jassi Pannu and Joshua Monrad on Pandemic Preparedness
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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#53 – Tessa Alexanian and Janvi Ahuja on Synthetic Biology and GCBRs
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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#52 – Michael Aird on how to do Impact-Driven Research
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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#51 – Kevin Esvelt and Jonas Sandbrink on Risks from Biological Research
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Bonus: 50th Episode Celebration
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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#50 – Doyne Farmer on Complexity and Predicting Technological Progress
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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#49 – Ajay Karpur on Metagenomic Sequencing
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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#48 – Spencer Weart on the Discovery of Global Warming
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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#47 – Jason Crawford on Progress Studies
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May 12, 2022 |
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#46 – Cristina Bicchieri on Social Norms and The Grammar Of Society
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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#45 – Lord Bird on the UK Future Generations Bill
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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#44 – Sam Hilton on Charity Entrepreneurship, Exploratory Altruism, and Longtermist Policy
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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#43 – Glen Weyl on Pluralism, Radical Markets, and Social Technology
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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#42 – Habiba Islam on Planning a High-Impact Career and Ambitious Altruism
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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#41 – Michael Bhaskar on Big Ideas and the Great Stagnation
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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#40 – Mike Hinge on Feeding Everyone in a Disaster
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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#39 – Keith Frankish on Illusionism about Consciousness
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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#38 – Christoph Winter on the Legal Priorities Project
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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#37 – Gillian Hadfield on Regulatory Markets, Silly Rules, and why Humans Invented Law
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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#36 – Bryan Caplan on Causes of Poverty and the Case for Open Borders
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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#35 – Ben Todd on Choosing a Career and Defining Longtermism
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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#34 – Anders Sandberg on the Fermi Paradox, Transhumanism, and so much more
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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#33 – Jeffrey Sachs on Sustainable Development
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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#32 – Matt Ives on Solar Power and Experience Curves
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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#31 – Armond Cohen on Climate Change and the Clean Air Task Force
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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#30 – Isabelle Boemeke on Nuclear Power
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May 31, 2021 |
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#29 – Phil Trammell on Economic Growth under Transformative AI
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May 17, 2021 |
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#28 – Anna Alexandrova on Measuring Well-Being and Alternatives to Technocracy
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May 03, 2021 |
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#27 – Eva Vivalt on Evidence-Based Policy and Forecasting Social Science
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Bonus: Longtermism Discussion (w/ Increments podcast)
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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#25 – Julia Shvets on Overconfidence, Rank Incentives, and Lab vs Field Experiments
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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#24 – Nikhil Krishnan on the History and Future of Analytic Philosophy
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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#23 – Marcus Daniell on High Impact Athletes, EA Outreach, and the Point of Sport
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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#22 – Sebastian Joy on ProVeg, Movement Building, and Corporate Engagement
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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#21 – Bruce Friedrich on Protein Alternatives and the Good Food Institute
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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#20 – Leah Edgerton and Manja Gärtner on Animal Charity Evaluation
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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#19 – Peter Singer on Speciesism, Lockdown Ethics, and Controversial Ideas
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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#18 – Luke Freeman on Giving What We Can and Community Building
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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#17 – Sriya Iyer on the Economics of Religion
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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#16 – SJ Beard on Parfit, Climate Change, and Existential Risk
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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#15 – Jessie Munton on Prejudice, Perception, and Search Engines
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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#14 – Carolina Alves on Heterodox Economics, Diversity in Academia, and the Global South
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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#13 – Jaime Sevilla Molina on on Forecasting, Cultural Persistence, and Quantum Computing
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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#12 – Sanjay Joshi on Charity Evaluation and Nonprofit Entrepreneurship
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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#11 – Eve McCormick on Effective Altruism
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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#10 – Toke Aidt on Corruption and Political Economy
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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#9 – Neel Nanda on Effective Planning and Building Habits that Stick
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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#8 – George Rosenfeld on Effective Giving and Building a Charitable Movement
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Apr 11, 2020 |
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#7 – Diane Coyle on Tech Giants and Digital Monopolies
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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#6 – Dan Williams on Political Misinformation, Self-Delusion, and Signalling
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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#5 – Kent Berridge on Dopamine, Addiction and Neuroscience
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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#4 – Tads Ciecierski-Holmes on Gym Membership and Behavioural Economics
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Jan 25, 2020 |
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#3 – Vasileios Kotsidis on Rational Choice Theory and the Repugnant Conclusion
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Jan 25, 2020 |
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#2 – Tobias Cremer on Right-wing Populism and Christianity
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Jan 25, 2020 |
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#1 – Victoria Bateman on the Industrial Revolution and Economic History
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Jan 25, 2020 |
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What is Hear This Idea?
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Jan 25, 2020 |