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Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Timothy Williamson: The Logician Who Says Vagueness Has Exact Answers
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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The Waltz
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Brian Armstrong
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Iason Gabriel: Value Alignment and the Ethics of Advanced AI Systems
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Tony Hawk
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Working Definition episode 3: Freedom, with Tyler Cowen
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Debate with Vitalik Buterin — Will “d/acc” Protect Humanity from Superintelligent AI?
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Trump’s tech bros: The enigma of Peter Thiel
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Ep 114: Flying Cars Are About to Change the World — Joby CEO JoeBen Bevirt
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Richard Ngo - A State-Space of Positive Posthuman Futures (Worthy Successor, Episode 8)
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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AI, data centers, and power economics, with Azeem Azhar
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Claude Cooperates! Exploring Cultural Evolution in LLM Societies, with Aron Vallinder & Edward Hughes
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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AI in 2030, Scaling Bottlenecks, and Explosive Growth
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Ajeya Cotra on AI safety and the future of humanity
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Nora Belrose - AI Development, Safety, and Meaning
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Nov 30, 2024 |
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The Road to Autonomous Intelligence with Andrej Karpathy
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Joscha Bach - AGI24 Keynote (Cyberanimism)
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Nick Bostrom - AGI That Saves Room for Us (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 1)
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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#189 – Rachel Glennerster on why we still don’t have vaccines that could save millions
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May 31, 2024 |
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THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManus
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May 18, 2024 |
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David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case Against Longtermism
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May 13, 2024 |
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Peter Thiel on Political Theology
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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An even deeper atheism
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Biden's Executive Order and AI Safety with Flo Crivello, Founder of Lindy AI
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Tyler Cowen: From Avant-Garde to Pop (Bonus DJ Episode)
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Tom Holland: Dominion
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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How quickly is AI advancing? And should you be working in the field? (with Danny Hernandez)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Samo Burja - The Great Founder Theory of History
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Will Everyone Have a Personal AI? With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Predictable updating about AI risk
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Jeff Hawkins (Thousand Brains Theory)
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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#63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance
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May 14, 2023 |
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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind
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May 11, 2023 |
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#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
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May 07, 2023 |
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168 - How to Solve AI Alignment with Paul Christiano
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May 02, 2023 |
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Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Is our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon Blackburn
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Effective Accelerationism and the AI Safety Debate with Bayeslord, Beff Jezoz, and Nathan Labenz
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Robin Hanson, George Mason University | Deflecting The Sacred
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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#59 – Chris Miller on the History of Semiconductors, TSMC, and the CHIPS Act
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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The 1000x Developer
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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“Bibi: My Story,” Benjamin Netanyahu On His Life And Times | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Can effective altruism be redeemed?
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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#143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Ex-Logger Aims to Beat Elon Musk in Electric Trucks
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Tyler Cowen on Effective Altruism (University of St Andrews)
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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#112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and René Girard
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Peter Thiel – The End of The Future
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Can Effective Altruism really change the world?
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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Peter Thiel on the Bible
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Peter Thiel: “The State Contains Violence”
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Peter Thiel – The Tech Curse
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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#134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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Kenneth Stanley - Greatness Without Goals
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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John Vervaeke & Anna Riedl – The paradigm shift in rationality
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Peter Thiel: Zero to One
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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What Tyler Cowen Thinks About Basically Everything
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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Episode #158 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - The Ascetic Ideal
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Samuel Scheffler: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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Roger Crisp on Virtue
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Roger Crisp on Utilitarianism
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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#102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Shklar on Hypocrisy
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May 19, 2021 |
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The Feeling of Value - Sharon Hewitt Rawlette
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May 16, 2021 |
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With Emergent Ventures, Tyler Cowen puts money where his mind is
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May 05, 2021 |
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Richard Hamming: You and Your Research
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Rawls on Justice
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Patrick Deneen - Liberalism & The Meaning of Freedom
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Culture, innovation, and the collective brain
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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Bentham on Pleasure
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Butler on Machines
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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#16 – SJ Beard on Parfit, Climate Change, and Existential Risk
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Utilitarianism
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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GPT-3: What's Hype, What's Real on the Latest in AI
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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Helen's History of Ideas
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Elijah Millgram, "John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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The Spreadsheet of Life and Death
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Episode #142 ... Richard Rorty
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Democracy For Young People
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Agnes Callard on Philosophy, Progress, and Wisdom
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Patrick Collison on Fast Grants, R&D funding and effective altruism
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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John Collison – Growing the Internet Economy
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Dan Sperber on "The Argumentative Theory of reason"
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Rory Sutherland on Alchemy
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Tyler Cowen: Arguments against Stubborn Attachments
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Tyler Cowen's stubborn attachments
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Bernard Williams: The Human Prejudice
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Adrian Moore on Bernard Williams on Ethics
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Tyler Cowen discusses Stubborn Attachments
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reasonhthttps://www.dan.sperber.fr/
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May 31, 2020 |
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Why we need worst-case thinking to prevent pandemics
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May 31, 2020 |
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Tyler Cowen on "Defending big business against its critics"
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May 30, 2020 |
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Jerry Muller on the Tyranny of Metrics
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May 30, 2020 |
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Joshua Greene on Moral Tribes, Moral Dilemmas, and Utilitarianism
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May 30, 2020 |
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Toby Ord - We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves Without the Wisdom to Ensure That We Don't
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May 30, 2020 |
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Book Review: Hoover
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May 30, 2020 |
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#78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress
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May 30, 2020 |
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Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics
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May 30, 2020 |
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Hobbes on the State
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May 30, 2020 |
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Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox
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May 30, 2020 |
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Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall
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May 30, 2020 |
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Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses
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May 30, 2020 |
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An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik)
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May 30, 2020 |
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13 Minutes to the Moon: 1. ‘We choose to go’, Apollo 11
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May 30, 2020 |
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Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power
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May 30, 2020 |
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Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia
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May 30, 2020 |