Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNEXUS (Part 2): Yuval Noah Harari on How to Safeguard Humanity in the Age of AI
Is AI all bad, or could it be so good that we might one day want to merge with it? This is just one of the questions Rufus poses in part two of his c…
1 year, 3 months ago
NEXUS (Part 1): Can Democracy Survive the AI Revolution? (with Yuval Noah Harari)
Yuval Noah Harari published an essay in the New York Times the other day. “Large-scale democracies,” he wrote, “became feasible only after the rise o…
1 year, 3 months ago
Can We End Poverty by Just Giving People Cash?
Extreme poverty, defined as living on less than $2.15 a day, has long been seen as an intractable problem. But what if the solution is simple? What i…
1 year, 4 months ago
GOING INFINITE: Michael Lewis Wants to Change Your Mind About Sam Bankman-Fried
In March, when Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of FTX, was sentenced to 25 years behind bars for stealing $8 billion from customers, many pe…
1 year, 4 months ago
SUPERCONVERGENCE: Biotechnology Is About to Transform the World. Are We Ready?
Sturgeon caviar harvested in a lab. Skyscrapers made out of living materials that grow from the ground up. Computers that run on DNA. These might sou…
1 year, 4 months ago
ANXIOUS ACHIEVER: How You Can Turn Anxiety Into a Superpower
What are some words you would use to describe a leader? Bold, driven, steadfast. How about … anxious? You may not equate leadership with anxiety, but…
1 year, 4 months ago
ON THE EDGE (Part 2): How to Get Ahead by Thinking Probabilistically
Today, Nate Silver explains why most people should take bigger risks, reveals the big thing everyone misunderstands about Sam Bankman-Fried, and make…
1 year, 4 months ago
ON THE EDGE (Part 1): Nate Silver on Politics, Poker, and Risk-Taking
You probably know Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, as the statistician with an uncanny knack for predicting election results. What you ma…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Case for Effective Altruism
Effective altruism — the brand of philanthropy where you try to do the most good for the greatest number of people with the resources you have — has …
1 year, 5 months ago
Laziness Does Not Exist
Today, social psychologist Devon Price makes the intriguing and ultimately hopeful case that laziness is a myth, a lie, a pernicious trap with no oth…
1 year, 5 months ago