Podcast Episodes

Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha

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, software, economics, and inve…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Steve Hsu - Intelligence, Embryo Selection, & The Future of Humanity

Steve Hsu is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University and cofounder of the company Genomic Prediction.

We go deep into the weeds on how embryo selection can make babies healthie…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology

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 extinction & collapse,…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics

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 power of …

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship

Fin Moorhouse is a Research Scholar and assistant to Toby Ord at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute. He co-hosts the Hear This Idea podcast, which showcases new thinking in philosophy, …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

34: Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology

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 extinction & collapse,…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Alexander Mikaberidze - Napoleon, War, Progress, and Global Order

Alexander Mikaberidze is Professor of History at Louisiana State University and the author of The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History.

He explains the global ramifications of the Napoleonic Wars - from …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Sam Bankman-Fried - Crypto, Altruism, and Leadership

I flew to the Bahamas to interview Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX! He talks about FTX’s plan to infiltrate traditional finance, giving $100m this year to AI + pandemic risk, scaling slowly + hirin…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Agustin Lebron - Trading, Crypto, and Adverse Selection

Agustin Lebron began his career as a trader and researcher at Jane Street Capital, one of the largest market-making firms in the world. He currently runs the consulting firm Essilen Research, where h…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

Luke Burgis - Mimesis, Scapegoats, and Revolutions

Luke Burg is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Director of Programs at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship. We talk about his book "Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Ever…

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago