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Podcast : Political Philosophy Podcast Episode : THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManus Release date : 2024-04-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What defines the modern American right? Matt McManus argues we should understand the movement as fundementally about hierarchy, we then get into a general conversation about the Biden ad...

Podcast : The Gradient: Perspectives on AI Episode : David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case Against Longtermism Release date : 2024-05-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Episode 122 I spoke with Professor David Thorstad about: * The practical difficulties of doing interdisciplinary work * Why theories of human rationality should...

Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : Peter Thiel on Political Theology Release date : 2024-04-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this conversation recorded live in Miami, Tyler and Peter Thiel dive deep into the complexities of political theology, including why it's a concept we still need today, why Peter's against Calvinism (a...

Podcast : Making Sense with Sam Harris Episode : #361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism Release date : 2024-04-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about the implosion of FTX and the effect that it has had on the Effective Altruism movement. They discuss the logic of "earning to give," the mind...

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think Release date : 2024-03-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Had so much fun chatting with my good friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas on the podcast. No way to summarize it, except:  This is the best context dump out there on how LLMs are t...

Podcast : Joe Carlsmith Audio Episode : An even deeper atheism Release date : 2024-01-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Who isn't a paperclipper? Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/11/an-even-deeper-atheism This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm h...

Podcast : The a16z Show Episode : Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety Release date : 2024-01-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Flock is a public safety technology platform that operates in over 4,000 cities across the United States, and solves about 2,200 crimes daily. That’s 10 percent of reported crimes nati...

Podcast : "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis Episode : Biden's Executive Order and AI Safety with Flo Crivello, Founder of Lindy AI Release date : 2023-11-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Flo Crivello, founder of Lindy AI, joins Nathan to chat about Biden’s executive order, an...

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover Release date : 2023-10-31 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paul Christiano is the world’s leading AI safety researcher. My full episode with him is out! We discuss: - Does he regret inventing RLHF, and is alignment necessarily dual-use? - Why he has relatively...

Podcast : Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin Episode : Tyler Cowen: From Avant-Garde to Pop (Bonus DJ Episode) Release date : 2023-10-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Tyler Cowen has long nurtured an obsession with music. It’s one of the few addictions Tyler believes is actually conducive to a fulfilling intellectual life. In this bonus epis...

Podcast : Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas Episode : 233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism Release date : 2023-04-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Here at the Mindscape Podcast, we are firmly pro-reason. But what does that mean, fundamentally and in practice? How did humanity come...

Podcast : The Book Club Episode : Tom Holland: Dominion Release date : 2019-12-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this week's Book Club, Sam's guest is the historian Tom Holland, author of the new book Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind . The book, though as Tom remarks, you might not know it from the cover, is essentially a histo...

Podcast : Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg Episode : How quickly is AI advancing? And should you be working in the field? (with Danny Hernandez) Release date : 2023-08-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Read the full transcript here. Along what axes and at what rates is the AI industry growing? What algorithmic developments have yie...

Podcast : Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy Episode : Samo Burja - The Great Founder Theory of History - [Invest Like the Best, EP.339] Release date : 2023-08-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization My guest today is Samo Burja . Samo is the founder of consulting firm, Bismark Analysis, and has dedicated his life’s work to underst...

Podcast : The Joe Walker Podcast Episode : Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm Release date : 2023-08-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Stephen Wolfram is a physicist, computer scientist and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, and the author of A N...

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough Release date : 2023-08-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Here is my conversation with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. Dario is hilarious and has fascinating takes on what these models are doing, why they scale so well, and w...

Podcast : No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups Episode : Will Everyone Have a Personal AI? With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection Release date : 2023-05-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and now co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, joins Sarah and Elad to di...

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future Release date : 2023-06-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The second half of my 7 hour conversation with Carl Shulman is out! My favorite part! And the one that had the biggest impact on my worldview. He...

Podcast : Joe Carlsmith Audio Episode : Predictable updating about AI risk Release date : 2023-05-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How worried about AI risk will we feel in the future, when we can see advanced machine intelligence up close? We should worry accordingly now. Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2023/05/08/predictabl...

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment Release date : 2023-06-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In terms of the depth and range of topics, this episode is the best I’ve done. No part of my worldview is the same after talking with Carl Shulman. He's...

Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas Release date : 2023-06-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Peter Singer is one of the world's most influential living philosophers, whose ideas have motivated millions of people to change how they eat, how they give, and how they...

Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion Release date : 2023-05-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What is the nature of the universe? How do we make decisions correctly? What differentiates right actions from wrong ones? Such fundamental questions have been the subject of...

Podcast : Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) Episode : #59 - Jeff Hawkins (Thousand Brains Theory) Release date : 2021-09-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mlst The ultimate goal of neuroscience is to learn how the human brain gives rise to human intelligence and what it means to be intelligent. Understan...

Podcast : Hear This Idea Episode : #63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance Release date : 2023-05-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Ben Garfinkel is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Acting Director of the Centre for the Governance of AI . In this episode we talk about: An overview of AI governance space, and disentangling co...

Podcast : Lex Fridman Podcast Episode : #299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind Release date : 2022-07-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Demis Hassabis is the CEO and co-founder of DeepMind. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Mailgun : https://lexfridman.com/mailgun – InsideTracker : https://insidetracker.com/...