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Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%
Tyler Cowen & Nabeel Qureshi - An Appetite For More
Claude Constitution Q&A (with Amanda Askell and Joe Carlsmith)
Situational Awareness in Government, with UK AISI Chief Scientist Geoffrey Irving
Timothy Williamson: The Logician Who Says Vagueness Has Exact Answers
The Waltz
Brian Armstrong
Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI
Iason Gabriel: Value Alignment and the Ethics of Advanced AI Systems
Tony Hawk
Working Definition episode 3: Freedom, with Tyler Cowen
Debate with Vitalik Buterin — Will “d/acc” Protect Humanity from Superintelligent AI?
Trump’s tech bros: The enigma of Peter Thiel
Ep 114: Flying Cars Are About to Change the World — Joby CEO JoeBen Bevirt
Richard Ngo - A State-Space of Positive Posthuman Futures (Worthy Successor, Episode 8)
AI, data centers, and power economics, with Azeem Azhar
#212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway
Claude Cooperates! Exploring Cultural Evolution in LLM Societies, with Aron Vallinder & Edward Hughes
AI in 2030, Scaling Bottlenecks, and Explosive Growth
Ajeya Cotra on AI safety and the future of humanity
Nora Belrose - AI Development, Safety, and Meaning
The Road to Autonomous Intelligence with Andrej Karpathy
Joscha Bach - AGI24 Keynote (Cyberanimism)
Nick Bostrom - AGI That Saves Room for Us (Worthy Successor Series, Episode 1)
Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan
#189 – Rachel Glennerster on why we still don’t have vaccines that could save millions
THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManus
David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case Against Longtermism
Peter Thiel on Political Theology
#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism
Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think
An even deeper atheism
Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Biden's Executive Order and AI Safety with Flo Crivello, Founder of Lindy AI
Paul Christiano — Preventing an AI takeover
Tyler Cowen: From Avant-Garde to Pop (Bonus DJ Episode)
233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
Tom Holland: Dominion
How quickly is AI advancing? And should you be working in the field? (with Danny Hernandez)
Samo Burja - The Great Founder Theory of History
Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm
Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) — The hidden pattern behind every AI breakthrough
Will Everyone Have a Personal AI? With Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of DeepMind and Inflection
Carl Shulman (Pt 2) — AI Takeover, bio & cyber attacks, detecting deception, & humanity's far future
Predictable updating about AI risk
Carl Shulman (Pt 1) — Intelligence explosion, primate evolution, robot doublings, & alignment
Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas
#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
Jeff Hawkins (Thousand Brains Theory)
#63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance
#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind
#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
168 - How to Solve AI Alignment with Paul Christiano
Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligence
Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside
Is our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon Blackburn
Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State
Effective Accelerationism and the AI Safety Debate with Bayeslord, Beff Jezoz, and Nathan Labenz
Robin Hanson, George Mason University | Deflecting The Sacred
#59 – Chris Miller on the History of Semiconductors, TSMC, and the CHIPS Act
The 1000x Developer
Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar
“Bibi: My Story,” Benjamin Netanyahu On His Life And Times | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Can effective altruism be redeemed?
#143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons
Ex-Logger Aims to Beat Elon Musk in Electric Trucks
Tyler Cowen on Effective Altruism (University of St Andrews)
#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well
Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy
Bethany McLean — Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, frauds, & visionaries
#112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism
Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and René Girard
Peter Thiel – The End of The Future
Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues
Can Effective Altruism really change the world?
Peter Thiel on the Bible
Peter Thiel: “The State Contains Violence”
Peter Thiel – The Tech Curse
Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha
Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project
William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation
Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology
Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics
#134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
Kenneth Stanley - Greatness Without Goals
John Vervaeke & Anna Riedl – The paradigm shift in rationality
Peter Thiel: Zero to One
What Tyler Cowen Thinks About Basically Everything
Episode #158 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - The Ascetic Ideal
Samuel Scheffler: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations
Roger Crisp on Virtue
Roger Crisp on Utilitarianism
#102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all
Shklar on Hypocrisy
The Feeling of Value - Sharon Hewitt Rawlette
With Emergent Ventures, Tyler Cowen puts money where his mind is
Richard Hamming: You and Your Research
Rawls on Justice
David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge