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Trump’s tech bros: The enigma of Peter Thiel

FT Tech Tonic (July 2025)

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Ep 114: Flying Cars Are About to Change the World — Joby CEO JoeBen Bevirt

Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist (June 2025)

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Richard Ngo - A State-Space of Positive Posthuman Futures [Worthy Successor, Episode 8]

The Trajectory (April 2025)

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AI, data centers, and power economics, with Azeem Azhar

Complex Systems with Patrick McKenzie (patio11) (February 2025)

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#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway

80,000 Hours Podcast (February 2025)

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Claude Cooperates! Exploring Cultural Evolution in LLM Societies, with Aron Vallinder & Edward Hughes

"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis (February 2025)

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AI in 2030, Scaling Bottlenecks, and Explosive Growth

Epoch After Hours (January 2025)

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Ajeya Cotra on AI safety and the future of humanity

AI Summer (January 2025)

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Nora Belrose - AI Development, Safety, and Meaning

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) (November 2024)

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The Road to Autonomous Intelligence with Andrej Karpathy

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups (September 2024)

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Joscha Bach - AGI24 Keynote (Cyberanimism)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) (August 2024)

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Nick Bostrom - AGI That Saves Room for Us (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 1)

The Trajectory (July 2024)

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Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives

Dwarkesh Podcast (July 2024)

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#189 – Rachel Glennerster on why we still don’t have vaccines that could save millions

80,000 Hours Podcast (May 2024)

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THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManus

Political Philosophy Podcast (April 2024)

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David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case Against Longtermism

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI (May 2024)

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Peter Thiel on Political Theology

Conversations with Tyler (April 2024)

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#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism

Making Sense with Sam Harris (April 2024)

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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's Mind

Dwarkesh Podcast (March 2024)

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An even deeper atheism

Joe Carlsmith Audio (January 2024)

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Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety

a16z Podcast (January 2024)

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Biden's Executive Order and AI Safety with Flo Crivello, Founder of Lindy AI

"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis (November 2023)

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Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover

Dwarkesh Podcast (October 2023)

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Tyler Cowen: From Avant-Garde to Pop (Bonus DJ Episode)

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin (October 2023)

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233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (April 2023)

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Tom Holland: Dominion

The Book Club (December 2019)

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How quickly is AI advancing? And should you be working in the field? (with Danny Hernandez)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg (August 2023)

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Samo Burja - The Great Founder Theory of History

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (August 2023)

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Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm

The Joe Walker Podcast (August 2023)

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Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) - Scaling, Alignment, & AI Progress

Dwarkesh Podcast (August 2023)

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Will Everyone Have a Personal AI? With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups (May 2023)

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Carl Shulman (Pt 2) - AI Takeover, Bio & Cyber Attacks, Detecting Deception, & Humanity's Far Future

Dwarkesh Podcast (June 2023)

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Predictable updating about AI risk

Joe Carlsmith Audio (May 2023)

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Carl Shulman (Pt 1) - Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment

Dwarkesh Podcast (June 2023)

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Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas

Conversations with Tyler (June 2023)

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#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion

80,000 Hours Podcast (May 2023)

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Jeff Hawkins (Thousand Brains Theory)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) (September 2021)

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#63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance

Hear This Idea (May 2023)

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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

Lex Fridman Podcast (July 2022)

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#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world

80,000 Hours Podcast (May 2023)

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168 - How to Solve AI Alignment with Paul Christiano

Bankless (April 2023)

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Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) - Building AGI, Alignment, Future Models, Spies, Microsoft, Taiwan, & Enlightenment

Dwarkesh Podcast (March 2023)

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Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside

Conversations with Tyler (March 2023)

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Is our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon Blackburn

Philosophy For Our Times (March 2023)

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Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State

Conversations with Tyler (March 2023)

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Effective Accelerationism and the AI Safety Debate with Bayeslord, Beff Jezoz, and Nathan Labenz

"Moment of Zen" (March 2023)

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Robin Hanson, George Mason University | Deflecting The Sacred

Foresight Institute Radio (March 2023)

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#59 – Chris Miller on the History of Semiconductors, TSMC, and the CHIPS Act

Hear This Idea (March 2023)

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The 1000x Developer

a16z Podcast (February 2023)

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Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar

ROCKING OUR PRIORS (January 2023)

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Connor Leahy on AI Safety and Why the World is Fragile

Future of Life Institute Podcast (January 2023)

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Connor Leahy on Aliens, Ethics, Economics, Memetics, and Education

Future of Life Institute Podcast (February 2023)

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“Bibi: My Story,” Benjamin Netanyahu On His Life And Times | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution

Uncommon Knowledge (December 2022)

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Can effective altruism be redeemed?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing (January 2023)

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#143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons

80,000 Hours Podcast (December 2022)

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Ex-Logger Aims to Beat Elon Musk in Electric Trucks

Odd Lots (January 2023)

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Tyler Cowen on Effective Altruism (University of St Andrews)

YouTube (December 2022)

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#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well

80,000 Hours Podcast (December 2022)

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Nadia Asparouhova - Tech Elites, Democracy, Open Source, & Philanthropy

Dwarkesh Podcast (December 2022)

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Anders Sandberg on the Value of the Future

Future of Life Institute Podcast (December 2022)

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Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries

Dwarkesh Podcast (December 2022)

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#112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications

80,000 Hours Podcast (October 2021)

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Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism

Dwarkesh Podcast (December 2022)

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Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and René Girard

EconTalk (November 2022)

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Robin Hanson on Predicting the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Future of Life Institute Podcast (November 2022)

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Robin Hanson on Grabby Aliens and When Humanity Will Meet Them

Future of Life Institute Podcast (November 2022)

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Peter Thiel – The End of The Future

unknown (November 2022)

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Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues

Dwarkesh Podcast (October 2022)

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Can Effective Altruism really change the world?

Analysis (October 2022)

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Ajeya Cotra on how Artificial Intelligence Could Cause Catastrophe

Future of Life Institute Podcast (November 2022)

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Peter Thiel on the Bible

Meeting of Minds Podcast (May 2021)

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Peter Thiel: “The State Contains Violence”

Meeting of Minds Podcast (September 2022)

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Peter Thiel – The Tech Curse

unknown (September 2022)

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Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha

Dwarkesh Podcast (September 2022)

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Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project

80k After Hours (September 2022)

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William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation

Conversations with Tyler (August 2022)

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Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology

Dwarkesh Podcast (August 2022)

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Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics

Dwarkesh Podcast (August 2022)

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#134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us

80,000 Hours Podcast (July 2022)

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Kenneth Stanley - Greatness Without Goals

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (June 2022)

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John Vervaeke & Anna Riedl – The paradigm shift in rationality

YouTube (October 2021)

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Peter Thiel: Zero to One

Socrates in the City (February 2020)

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What Tyler Cowen Thinks About Basically Everything

Village Global Podcast (November 2018)

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Episode #158 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - The Ascetic Ideal

Philosophize This! (October 2021)

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Samuel Scheffler: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations

unknown (August 2021)

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Roger Crisp on Virtue

Philosophy Bites (October 2008)

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Roger Crisp on Utilitarianism

Philosophy Bites (July 2007)

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#102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all

80,000 Hours Podcast (June 2021)

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Shklar on Hypocrisy

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS (April 2021)

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The Feeling of Value - Sharon Hewitt Rawlette

Utilitarian (August 2020)

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With Emergent Ventures, Tyler Cowen puts money where his mind is

Access to Excellence Podcast (May 2021)

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Richard Hamming: You and Your Research

unknown (April 2021)

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Rawls on Justice

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS (April 2021)

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David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge

The TED Interview (October 2018)

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#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk

Hear This Idea (March 2021)

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Patrick Deneen - Liberalism & The Meaning of Freedom

Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta (March 2021)

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Culture, innovation, and the collective brain

Many Minds (February 2021)

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Bentham on Pleasure

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS (February 2021)

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Butler on Machines

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS (February 2021)

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#16 – SJ Beard on Parfit, Climate Change, and Existential Risk

Hear This Idea (September 2020)

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Kelly Wanser on Climate Change as a Possible Existential Threat

Future of Life Institute Podcast (September 2020)

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Iason Gabriel on Foundational Philosophical Questions in AI Alignment

Future of Life Institute Podcast (September 2020)

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Utilitarianism

In Our Time (June 2015)

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GPT-3: What's Hype, What's Real on the Latest in AI

a16z Podcast (July 2020)

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Helen's History of Ideas

TALKING POLITICS (July 2020)

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Peter Railton on Moral Learning and Metaethics in AI Systems

Future of Life Institute Podcast (August 2020)

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Elijah Millgram, "John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)

New Books in Philosophy (November 2019)

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Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth

Philosophy Bites (August 2008)

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Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality

Philosophy Bites (September 2008)

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The Spreadsheet of Life and Death

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford (June 2020)

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Episode #142 ... Richard Rorty

Philosophize This! (April 2020)

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Democracy For Young People

TALKING POLITICS (December 2018)

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Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits

The Portal (February 2020)

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Agnes Callard on Philosophy, Progress, and Wisdom

EconTalk (June 2020)

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Patrick Collison on Fast Grants, R&D funding and effective altruism

YouTube (The Torch of Progress) (June 2020)

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John Collison – Growing the Internet Economy

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy (June 2020)

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Dan Sperber on "The Argumentative Theory of reason"

Rationally Speaking Podcast (August 2015)

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Rory Sutherland on Alchemy

EconTalk (November 2019)

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Tyler Cowen: Arguments against Stubborn Attachments

YouTube (Stanford Ethics in Society) (November 2019)

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Tyler Cowen's stubborn attachments

FT Alphachat (April 2017)

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Bernard Williams: The Human Prejudice

YouTube (University of California, Berkeley) (October 2002)

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Adrian Moore on Bernard Williams on Ethics

Philosophy Bites (November 2013)

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Robert Wright & Galen Strawson on panpsychism

The Wright Show (February 2018)

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Tyler Cowen discusses Stubborn Attachments

Elucidations (September 2019)

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Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler Cowen on Stubborn Attachments

Conversations with Tyler (October 2018)

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Sam Harris on Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most

Future of Life Institute Podcast (June 2020)

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Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy Bites (May 2020)

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Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reasonhthttps://www.dan.sperber.fr/

Philosophy Bites (September 2011)

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Why we need worst-case thinking to prevent pandemics

The Audio Long Read (March 2020)

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Tyler Cowen on "Defending big business against its critics"

Rationally Speaking Podcast (April 2019)

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Jerry Muller on the Tyranny of Metrics

EconTalk (April 2018)

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Joshua Greene on Moral Tribes, Moral Dilemmas, and Utilitarianism

EconTalk (January 2015)

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Toby Ord - We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves Without the Wisdom to Ensure That We Don't

EdgeCast (April 2020)

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Book Review: Hoover

Astral Codex Ten Podcast (March 2020)

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#78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress

80,000 Hours Podcast (May 2020)

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Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS (April 2020)

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Hobbes on the State

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS (April 2020)

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Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox

Conversations with Tyler (April 2020)

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Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall

The Portal (April 2020)

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Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses

The Portal (March 2020)

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An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing (June 2019)

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13 Minutes to the Moon: 1. ‘We choose to go’, Apollo 11

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle (May 2019)

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Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power

Long Now (December 2018)

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On Becoming a Moral Realist with Peter Singer

Future of Life Institute Podcast (October 2018)

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Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia

80,000 Hours Podcast (October 2018)

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