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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

The Lunar Society (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

The Lunar Society (September 2022)

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Babbage: Could artificial intelligence become sentient?

Babbage from The Economist (August 2022)

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Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project

80k After Hours (September 2022)

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The Fable of The Dragon Tyrant (2005)

An Introduction to Nick Bostrom (August 2022)

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How Vulnerable is the World? (2021)

Radio Bostrom (August 2022)

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Three Sentences That Could Change the World — and Your Life

The Ezra Klein Show (August 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

The Lunar Society (August 2022)

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Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics

The Lunar Society (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's Venture Stories (November 2018)

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

Philosophize This! (October 2021)

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How to Do the Most Good

The Ezra Klein Show (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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Utilitarianism and Its Flavors with Nick Beckstead

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg (May 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 Marine Cloud Brightening for Mitigating Climate Change

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

Robert Wright's Nonzero (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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On Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most with Sam Harris

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 Reason

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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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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‘We choose to go’

13 Minutes to the Moon (May 2019)

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Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking (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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Prof Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia

80,000 Hours Podcast (October 2018)

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