The Valmy

Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world Release date : 2023-05-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It’s easy to dismiss alarming AI-related predictions when you don’t know where the numbers came from. For example: what if we told you that within 15 years, it’s likely that we’l...

Podcast : Bankless Episode : 168 - How to Solve AI Alignment with Paul Christiano Release date : 2023-04-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paul Christiano runs the Alignment Research Center, a non-profit research organization whose mission is to align future machine learning systems with human interests. Paul previously ran the language m...

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence Release date : 2023-03-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization I went over to the OpenAI offices in San Fransisco to ask the Chief Scientist and cofounder of OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever , about: * time to AGI * le...

Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside Release date : 2023-03-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Historian Tom Holland joined Tyler to discuss in what ways his Christianity is influenced by Lord Byron, how the Book of Revelation precipitated a revolutionary tradit...

Podcast : Philosophy For Our Times Episode : Is our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon Blackburn Release date : 2023-03-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Should we think of morality in terms of objective truth or social consensus? Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here:  https://link...

Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State Release date : 2023-03-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Yasheng Huang has written two of Tyler's favorite books on China: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics , which contrasts an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban...

Podcast : "Moment of Zen" Episode : Effective Accelerationism and the AI Safety Debate with Bayeslord, Beff Jezoz, and Nathan Labenz Release date : 2023-03-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Anonymous founders of the Effective Accelerationist (e/acc) movement @Bayeslord and Beff Jezoz (@BasedBeff) join Erik Torenberg, Dan Romero, and Natha...

Podcast : Foresight Institute Radio Episode : Robin Hanson, George Mason University | Deflecting The Sacred Release date : 2023-03-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Robin Dale Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He is kn...

Podcast : Hear This Idea Episode : #59 – Chris Miller on the History of Semiconductors, TSMC, and the CHIPS Act Release date : 2023-03-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Chris Miller is an Associate Professor of International History at Tufts University and author of the book “ Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Tec...

Podcast : The a16z Show Episode : The 1000x Developer Release date : 2023-02-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A small minority – likely less than 1% – of the world can code. Yet also widely known that the skillset tends to yield outsized returns, with developers generating some of the highest paying salaries out there. But the field is q...

Podcast : ROCKING OUR PRIORS Episode : Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar Release date : 2023-01-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Why are most humans religious? How much can be explained by evolutionary psychology? Why do we cooperate? Is it religious injunctions or more emotional? Is religiosity really about cooperati...

Podcast : Uncommon Knowledge Episode : “Bibi: My Story,” Benjamin Netanyahu On His Life And Times | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution Release date : 2022-12-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Benjamin Netanyahu is the past and soon to be again prime minister of Israel. In his new book, Bibi: My Story , Netanyahu describes how he went fro...

Podcast : The Gray Area with Sean Illing Episode : Can effective altruism be redeemed? Release date : 2023-01-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Guest host Sigal Samuel talks with Holden Karnofsky about effective altruism, a movement flung into public scrutiny with the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried and his crypto exchange, FTX. They discus...

Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons Release date : 2022-12-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization America aims to avoid nuclear war by relying on the principle of 'mutually assured destruction,' right? Wrong. Or at least... not officially. As today's guest — Jeff...

Podcast : Odd Lots Episode : Ex-Logger Aims to Beat Elon Musk in Electric Trucks Release date : 2023-01-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization While electric vehicle use is growing rapidly, the internal combustion engine remains completely dominant in the world of heavy trucks. At some point in the future, Tesla has a plan to commercialize an...

Release date : 2023-01-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well Release date : 2022-12-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Large language models like GPT-3, and now ChatGPT, are neural networks trained on a large fraction of all text available on the internet to do one th...

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy Release date : 2022-12-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Nadia Asparouhova is currently researching what the new tech elite will look like at nadia.xyz . She is also the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Op...

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries Release date : 2022-12-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This was one of my favorite episodes ever. Bethany McLean was the first reporter to question Enron’s earnings, and she has written some of the best finance books out there. We discuss...

Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications Release date : 2021-10-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Preventing the apocalypse may sound like an idiosyncratic activity, and it sometimes is justified on exotic grounds, such as the potential f...

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism Release date : 2022-12-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Perhaps the most interesting episode so far. Byrne Hobart writes at thediff.co , analyzing inflections in finance and tech. He explains: * What happened at FTX * How drugs have induced pas...

Podcast : EconTalk Episode : Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and René Girard Release date : 2022-11-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When the 20-year-old overachiever Johnathan Bi's first startup crashed and burned, he headed to a Zen retreat in the Catskills to "debug himself." He discovered René Girard and his mimetic theory--the idea that imi...

Release date : 2022-11-20 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube (Stanford Academic Freedom Conference) https://www.youtube.com/@stanfordcli Release date: 2022-11-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues Release date : 2022-10-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It was a fantastic pleasure to welcome Bryan Caplan back for a third time on the podcast! His most recent book is Don't Be a Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice . He explains why he thinks: -...

Podcast : Analysis Episode : Can Effective Altruism really change the world? Release date : 2022-10-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization If you want to do good in the world, should you be a doctor, or an aid worker? Or should you make a billion or two any way you can, and give it to good causes? Billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried argues this is t...