The Valmy

Podcast : Meeting of Minds Podcast Episode : Peter Thiel on the Bible Release date : 2021-05-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Peter Thiel, the highly successful tech entrepreneur and author, discusses his mentor Rene Girard; the Bible, how we read it, and how it reads us; Jesus’ death and resurrection; atheism; and the limitless es...

Podcast : Meeting of Minds Podcast Episode : Peter Thiel: “The State Contains Violence” Release date : 2022-09-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Peter Thiel, arguably the most successful tech investor of modern times, also reads widely and thinks deeply about philosophy and theology. In a fascinating follow-up to his previous interview ab...

Release date : 2022-09-19 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube (National Conservatism Conference, Miami) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=balGGAd6ZrI Release date: 2022-09-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha Release date : 2022-09-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Austin Vernon is an engineer working on a new method for carbon capture, and he has one of the most interesting blogs on the internet, where he writes about engineering, so...

Podcast : 80k After Hours Episode : Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project Release date : 2022-09-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin interviews Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla about the Shrimp Welfare Project , which he cofounded in 2021. It's the first project in the world focused on s...

Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation Release date : 2022-08-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When Tyler is reviewing grants for Emergent Ventures, he is struck by how the ideas of effective altruism have so clearly influenced many of the smartest app...

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology Release date : 2022-08-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Will MacAskill is one of the founders of the Effective Altruist movement and the author of the upcoming book, What We Owe The Future . We talk about improving the future, risk of extin...

Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics Release date : 2022-08-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Joseph Carlsmith is a senior research analyst at  Open Philanthropy  and a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Oxford . We discuss utopia, artificial intelligence, computational pow...

Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us Release date : 2022-07-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Wind back 1,000 years and the moral landscape looks very different to today. Most farming societies thought slavery was natural and unobjectionable, premarital sex was an abomination, w...

Podcast : Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy Episode : Kenneth Stanley - Greatness Without Goals - [Invest Like the Best, EP.283] Release date : 2022-06-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization My guest today is Ken Stanley . Ken is a Professor in Computer Science and a pioneer in the field of neuroevolution. He is also the co-autho...

Release date : 2022-02-11 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Fr8v2cAIw& Release date: 2021-10-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Podcast : Socrates in the City Episode : Peter Thiel: Zero to One Release date : 2020-02-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Eric Metaxas interviews entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel on his bestselling book ZERO TO ONE. Using Apollo 11 and Woodstock as reference points, Thiel and Metaxas explore the idea that we live in an age of techno...

Podcast : Village Global Podcast Episode : What Tyler Cowen Thinks About Basically Everything Release date : 2018-11-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this extended episode of Venture Stories, Erik interviews Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen), professor of economics at George Mason University. They discuss about a wide range of topics, includi...

Podcast : Philosophize This! Episode : Episode #158 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - The Ascetic Ideal Release date : 2021-10-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today we look at the creation of meaning through the work of Nietzsche.  Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help.  Website: https://www.phil...

Release date : 2021-08-27 Notes from The Valmy : Source: University of Oxford (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) https://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/uehiro-lectures-2015 Release date: 2015-01-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Roger Crisp on Virtue Release date : 2008-10-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Roger Crisp discusses the nature of virtue in this interview with Nigel Warburton for the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Roger Crisp on Utilitarianism Release date : 2007-07-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How should we live? John Stuart Mill, one of the great thinkers of the nineteenth century thought that we should maximise happiness. Here Roger Crisp, author of an acclaimed book on Mill, explains Mill's utilitarian...

Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all Release date : 2021-06-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It can be tough to get people to truly care about reducing existential risks today. But spare a thought for the longtermist of the 17th century: they we...

Podcast : Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS Episode : Shklar on Hypocrisy Release date : 2021-04-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Judith Shklar’s Ordinary Vices (1984) made the case that the worst of all the vices is cruelty. But that meant we needed to be more tolerant of some other common human failings, including snobbery, betra...

Podcast : Utilitarian Episode : The Feeling of Value - Sharon Hewitt Rawlette Release date : 2020-08-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Sharon Hewitt Rawlette and I discuss the metaethical thesis of her book The Feeling of Value, which centers around normative qualia. We touch upon perspectival bias, pain and pleasure, how to construct a r...

Podcast : Access to Excellence Podcast Episode : With Emergent Ventures, Tyler Cowen puts money where his mind is Release date : 2021-05-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Emergent Ventures, which looks for big and unique ideas, has raised $60 million and funded 200 projects. Mason economist and co-founder Tyler Cowen says the grants are “...

Release date : 2021-04-29 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube (Stripe Press) https://d37ugbyn3rpeym.cloudfront.net/stripe-press/TAODSAE_zine_press.pdf Release date: 1996-06-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization

Podcast : Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS Episode : Rawls on Justice Release date : 2021-04-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (1971) changed the face of modern political philosophy by reinventing the question of what constitutes fairness. From ‘the veil of ignorance’ to ‘reflective equilibrium’ it...

Podcast : The TED Interview Episode : David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge Release date : 2018-10-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It can be easy to believe that humans are insignificant. We’re specks of dust on a random planet in a vast universe. Less powerful than elephants. Fewer than ants. But David Deutsch believes that’...

Podcast : Hear This Idea Episode : #26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk Release date : 2021-03-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Thomas Moynihan is a writer and researcher interested in the history of ideas surrounding existential risk and human flourishing. He completed a PhD on the history of human extinction, and cu...