All Episodes

#84 – Dean Spears on the Case for People

#83 – Max Smeets on Barriers To Cyberweapons

#82 – Tom Kalil on Institutions for Innovation (with Matt Clancy)

#81 – Cynthia Schuck on Quantifying Animal Welfare

#80 – Dan Williams on How Persuasion Works

#79 – Tamay Besiroglu on Explosive Growth from AI

#78 – Jacob Trefethen on Global Health R&D

#77 – Elizabeth Seger on Open Sourcing AI

#76 – Joe Carlsmith on Scheming AI

#75 – Eric Schwitzgebel on Digital Consciousness and the Weirdness of the World

#74 – Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley on Barriers to Bioweapons

Bonus: 'How I Learned To Love Shrimp' & David Coman-Hidy

#73 – Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare

#72 – Richard Bruns on Indoor Air Quality

#71 – Saloni Dattani on Malaria Vaccines and Missing Data in Global Health

#70 – Liv Boeree on Healthy vs Unhealthy Competition

#69 – Jon Y (Asianometry) on Problems And Progress in Semiconductor Manufacturing

#68 – Steven Teles on what the Conservative Legal Movement Teaches about Policy Advocacy

#67 – Guive Assadi on Whether Humanity Will Choose Its Future

#66 – Michael Cohen on Input Tampering in Advanced RL Agents

#65 – Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up

#64 – Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk

#63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance

#62 – Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering, Value Diversity, and Grand Futures

#61 – Rory Stewart on GiveDirectly and Massively Scaling Cash Transfers

#60 – Jaime Sevilla on Trends in Machine Learning

#59 – Chris Miller on the History of Semiconductors, TSMC, and the CHIPS Act

Bonus: Preventing an AI-Related Catastrophe

#58 – Carl Robichaud on Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War

Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics

#57 – Greg Nemet on Technological Change and How Solar Became Cheap

#56 – Dewi Erwan on BlueDot Impact and Scaling High-Impact Organisations

#55 – Jassi Pannu and Joshua Monrad on Pandemic Preparedness

#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data

#53 – Tessa Alexanian and Janvi Ahuja on Synthetic Biology and GCBRs

#52 – Michael Aird on how to do Impact-Driven Research

#51 – Kevin Esvelt and Jonas Sandbrink on Risks from Biological Research

Bonus: 50th Episode Celebration

#50 – Doyne Farmer on Complexity and Predicting Technological Progress

#49 – Ajay Karpur on Metagenomic Sequencing

#48 – Spencer Weart on the Discovery of Global Warming

#47 – Jason Crawford on Progress Studies

#46 – Cristina Bicchieri on Social Norms and The Grammar Of Society

#45 – Lord Bird on the UK Future Generations Bill

#44 – Sam Hilton on Charity Entrepreneurship, Exploratory Altruism, and Longtermist Policy

#43 – Glen Weyl on Pluralism, Radical Markets, and Social Technology

#42 – Habiba Islam on Planning a High-Impact Career and Ambitious Altruism

#41 – Michael Bhaskar on Big Ideas and the Great Stagnation

#40 – Mike Hinge on Feeding Everyone in a Disaster

#39 – Keith Frankish on Illusionism about Consciousness

#38 – Christoph Winter on the Legal Priorities Project

#37 – Gillian Hadfield on Regulatory Markets, Silly Rules, and why Humans Invented Law

#36 – Bryan Caplan on Causes of Poverty and the Case for Open Borders

#35 – Ben Todd on Choosing a Career and Defining Longtermism

#34 – Anders Sandberg on the Fermi Paradox, Transhumanism, and so much more

#33 – Jeffrey Sachs on Sustainable Development

#32 – Matt Ives on Solar Power and Experience Curves

#31 – Armond Cohen on Climate Change and the Clean Air Task Force

#30 – Isabelle Boemeke on Nuclear Power

#29 – Phil Trammell on Economic Growth under Transformative AI

#28 – Anna Alexandrova on Measuring Well-Being and Alternatives to Technocracy

#27 – Eva Vivalt on Evidence-Based Policy and Forecasting Social Science

Bonus: Longtermism Discussion (w/ Increments podcast)

#26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk

#25 – Julia Shvets on Overconfidence, Rank Incentives, and Lab vs Field Experiments

#24 – Nikhil Krishnan on the History and Future of Analytic Philosophy

#23 – Marcus Daniell on High Impact Athletes, EA Outreach, and the Point of Sport

#22 – Sebastian Joy on ProVeg, Movement Building, and Corporate Engagement

#21 – Bruce Friedrich on Protein Alternatives and the Good Food Institute

#20 – Leah Edgerton and Manja Gärtner on Animal Charity Evaluation

#19 – Peter Singer on Speciesism, Lockdown Ethics, and Controversial Ideas

#18 – Luke Freeman on Giving What We Can and Community Building

#17 – Sriya Iyer on the Economics of Religion

#16 – SJ Beard on Parfit, Climate Change, and Existential Risk

#15 – Jessie Munton on Prejudice, Perception, and Search Engines

#14 – Carolina Alves on Heterodox Economics, Diversity in Academia, and the Global South

#13 – Jaime Sevilla Molina on on Forecasting, Cultural Persistence, and Quantum Computing

#12 – Sanjay Joshi on Charity Evaluation and Nonprofit Entrepreneurship

#11 – Eve McCormick on Effective Altruism

#10 – Toke Aidt on Corruption and Political Economy

#9 – Neel Nanda on Effective Planning and Building Habits that Stick

#8 – George Rosenfeld on Effective Giving and Building a Charitable Movement

#7 – Diane Coyle on Tech Giants and Digital Monopolies

#6 – Dan Williams on Political Misinformation, Self-Delusion, and Signalling

#5 – Kent Berridge on Dopamine, Addiction and Neuroscience

#4 – Tads Ciecierski-Holmes on Gym Membership and Behavioural Economics

#3 – Vasileios Kotsidis on Rational Choice Theory and the Repugnant Conclusion

#2 – Tobias Cremer on Right-wing Populism and Christianity

#1 – Victoria Bateman on the Industrial Revolution and Economic History

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