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What's wrong with society, and how can we fix it? (with Tim Urban)
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What's wrong with society? And what can we do to fix it? Centuries ago, a person's grandparents lived in a world …
2 years, 8 months ago
AI creativity and love (with Joel Lehman)
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Where does innovation come from? How common is it for "lone wolf" scientists to make large leaps in innovation by…
2 years, 8 months ago
Glimpses of enlightenment through nondual meditation (with Michael Taft and Jeremy Stevenson)
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How does nondual meditation differ from other forms of meditation? Is nonduality the sort of thing a person can j…
2 years, 8 months ago
Crumbling institutions, culture wars, and the dismissal economy (with Ashley Hodgson)
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What is the New Enlightenment? What might it mean to improve our epistemics with regard to institutions? How shou…
2 years, 9 months ago
Virtual reality, simulation theory, consciousness, and identity (with David Chalmers)
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What does philosophy have to say about virtual reality (VR)? Under what conditions is "normal" reality preferable…
2 years, 9 months ago
Deep canvassing, street epistemology, and other tools of persuasion (with David McRaney)
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What is persuasion, and what is it not? How does persuasion differ from coercion? What is the Elaboration Likelih…
2 years, 9 months ago
Will AI destroy civilization in the near future? (with Connor Leahy)
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Does AI pose a near-term existential risk? Why might existential risks from AI manifest sooner rather than later?…
2 years, 9 months ago
Is AI development moving too fast or not fast enough? (with Reid Hoffman)
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Many people who work on AI safety advocate for slowing the rate of development; but might there be any advantages…
2 years, 10 months ago
Where philosophy meets the real world (with Peter Singer)
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How have animal rights and the animal rights movement changed in the last few decades? How has the scale of anima…
2 years, 10 months ago
Large language models, deep peace, and the meaning crisis (with Jim Rutt)
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What are large language models (LLMs) actually doing when they churn out text? Are they sentient? Is scale the on…
2 years, 10 months ago