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#56 - Persis Eskander on wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about it
Elephants in chains at travelling circuses; pregnant pigs trapped in coffin sized crates at factory farms; deers living in the wild. We should welcom…
6 years, 11 months ago
#55 – Lutter & Winter on founding charter cities with outstanding governance to end poverty
Governance matters. Policy change quickly took China from famine to fortune; Singapore from swamps to skyscrapers; and Hong Kong from fishing village…
7 years ago
#54 – OpenAI on publication norms, malicious uses of AI, and general-purpose learning algorithms
OpenAI’s Dactyl is an AI system that can manipulate objects with a human-like robot hand. OpenAI Five is an AI system that can defeat humans at the v…
7 years ago
#53 - Kelsey Piper on the room for important advocacy within journalism
“Politics. Business. Opinion. Science. Sports. Animal welfare. Existential risk.” Is this a plausible future lineup for major news outlets?
Funded by…
7 years, 1 month ago
Julia Galef and Rob Wiblin on an updated view of the best ways to help humanity
This is a cross-post of an interview Rob did with Julia Galef on her podcast Rationally Speaking. Rob and Julia discuss how the career advice 80,000 …
7 years, 1 month ago
#52 - Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society
Pro-market economists love to wax rhapsodic about the capacity of markets to pull together the valuable local information spread across all of societ…
7 years, 1 month ago
#10 Classic episode - Dr Nick Beckstead on spending billions of dollars preventing human extinction
Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in October 2017.
What if you were in a position to give away billions of dollars to improve the wo…
7 years, 2 months ago
#51 - Martin Gurri on the revolt of the public & crisis of authority in the information age
Politics in rich countries seems to be going nuts. What's the explanation? Rising inequality? The decline of manufacturing jobs? Excessive immigratio…
7 years, 2 months ago
#8 Classic episode - Lewis Bollard on how to end factory farming in our lifetimes
Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in September 2017.
Every year tens of billions of animals are raised in terrible conditions in fac…
7 years, 2 months ago
#9 Classic episode - Christine Peterson on the '80s futurist movement & its lessons for today
Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in October 2017.
Take a trip to Silicon Valley in the 70s and 80s, when going to space sounded lik…
7 years, 2 months ago