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Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments* Release date : 2018-10-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this special episode, Rob Wiblin of 80,000 Hours has the super-sized conversation he wants to have with Tyler about Stubborn Attachments. In addition to a deep examination of the id...

Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein Release date : 2020-05-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Cheryl Misak has recently published a biography of F.P. Ramsey , the great Cambridge thinker who died at the age of only 26, but who nevertheless made a significant impact in several different...

Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reasonhthttps://www.dan.sperber.fr/ Release date : 2011-09-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Our reasoning capacity sets us apart from other animals. But reason is frequently prone to error. Why then did we evolve with a capacity for reason at all? This is a question that h...

Podcast : The Audio Long Read Episode : Why we need worst-case thinking to prevent pandemics Release date : 2020-03-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Threats to humanity, and how we address them, define our time. Why are we still so complacent about facing up to existential risk? By Toby Ord. Help support our independent journalism at &lt...

Podcast : Rationally Speaking Podcast Episode : Rationally Speaking #232 - Tyler Cowen on "Defending big business against its critics" Release date : 2019-04-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Economist Tyler Cowen discusses his latest book, "Big Business: A love-letter to an American anti-hero." Why has anti-capitalist sentiment increased...

Podcast : EconTalk Episode : Jerry Muller on the Tyranny of Metrics Release date : 2018-04-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Historian and author Jerry Muller of Catholic University talks about his latest book, The Tyranny of Metrics, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Muller argues that public policy and management are overly focused on me...

Podcast : EconTalk Episode : Joshua Greene on Moral Tribes, Moral Dilemmas, and Utilitarianism Release date : 2015-01-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Joshua Greene, of Harvard University and author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about morality and the challenges w...

Podcast : EdgeCast Episode : Toby Ord - We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves Without the Wisdom to Ensure That We Don't Release date : 2020-04-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization TOBY ORD is a senior research fellow in philosophy at Oxford University and author of _The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. _The Conversat...

Podcast : Astral Codex Ten Podcast Episode : Book Review: Hoover Release date : 2020-03-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/17/book-review-hoover/ You probably remember Herbert Hoover as the guy who bungled the Great Depression. Maybe you shouldn't. Maybe you should remember him as a bold explorer looking...

Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress Release date : 2020-05-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Companies use about 300,000 times more computation training the best AI systems today than they did in 2012 and algorithmic innovations have also made them 25 times more effi...

Podcast : Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS Episode : Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics Release date : 2020-04-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the most remarkable books in the history of ideas. A classic of early feminism, it uses what’s wrong with the rel...

Podcast : Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS Episode : Hobbes on the State Release date : 2020-04-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) reimagined how we could do politics. It redefined many of the ideas that continue to shape modern politics: representation, sovereignty, the state. But in Leviathan...

Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox Release date : 2020-04-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Accuracy is only one of the things we want from forecasters, says Philip Tetlock, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of Superforecasting: The Art and Science...

Podcast : The Portal Episode : 30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall Release date : 2020-04-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Just before the great indooring due to the Pandemic of 2020, Eric sat down with conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss his book "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our O...

Podcast : The Portal Episode : 27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses Release date : 2020-03-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this second episode of the Portal to be released during shelter-in-place restrictions during the Corona Virus Pandemic, we release an older discussion with Daniel Shmachtenberger on whether...

Podcast : The Gray Area with Sean Illing Episode : An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik) Release date : 2019-06-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “Liberalism is as distinct a tradition as exists in political history, but it suffers from being a practice before it is an ideology, a temperament and a ton...

Podcast : 13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II Episode : 13 Minutes to the Moon: 1. ‘We choose to go’, Apollo 11 Release date : 2019-05-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization President John F. Kennedy boldly vows that America will land the first astronaut on the Moon by the end of the 1960s. It’s the height of the Cold War. But with superpower riva...

Podcast : Long Now Episode : Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power Release date : 2018-12-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “This time is different.” Historians: “Ha.” “The Net is net beneficial.” Historian Niall Ferguson: “Globalization is in crisis. Populism is on the march. Authoritarian states are ascendant. Technology meanwhile marches...

Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #46 - Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia Release date : 2018-10-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The barista gives you your coffee and change, and you walk away from the busy line. But you suddenly realise she gave you $1 less than she should have. Do you...