Bonus: The Worst Ideas in the History of the World

Today’s bonus release is a pilot for a new podcast called ‘The Worst Ideas in the History of the World’, created by Keiran Harris — producer of the 80,000 Hours Podcast.If you have strong opinions about this one way or another, please email us at [email protected] to help us figure out whether more of this ought to exist.Chapters:Rob’s intro (00:00:00)The Worst Ideas in the History of the World (00:00:51)My history with longtermism (00:04:01)Outlining the format (00:06:17)Will MacAskill’s basic case (00:07:38)5 reasons for why future people might not matter morally (00:10:26)Whether we can reasonably hope to influence the future (00:15:53)Great power wars (00:18:55)Nuclear weapons (00:22:27)Gain-of-function research (00:28:31)Closer (00:33:02)Rob's outro (00:35:13)