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How much does a vote matter? (Article)
If you care about social impact, is voting important? In this piece, Rob investigates the two key things that determine the impact of your vote:
The c…1 year, 5 months ago
#205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do
"You have a tank split in two parts: if the fish gets in the compartment with a red circle, it will receive food, and food will be delivered in the o…
1 year, 5 months ago
#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism
Rob Wiblin speaks with FiveThirtyEight election forecaster and author Nate Silver about his new book: On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.
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1 year, 5 months ago
#203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation
"In the human case, it would be mistaken to give a kind of hour-by-hour accounting. You know, 'I had +4 level of experience for this hour, then I had…
1 year, 6 months ago
Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
In this episode from our second show, 80k After Hours, Luisa Rodriguez and Keiran Harris chat about the consequences of letting go of enduring guilt,…
1 year, 6 months ago
#202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science
"For every far-out idea that turns out to be true, there were probably hundreds that were simply crackpot ideas. In general, [science] advances build…
1 year, 6 months ago
#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
"Perception is quite difficult with cameras: even if you have a stereo camera, you still can’t really build a map of where everything is in space. It…
1 year, 6 months ago
#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks
"It’s very hard to find examples where people say, 'I’m starting from this point. I’m starting from this belief.' So we wanted to make that very legi…
1 year, 6 months ago
#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy
"I do think that there is a really significant sentiment among parts of the opposition that it’s not really just that this bill itself is that bad or…
1 year, 7 months ago
#198 – Meghan Barrett on upending everything you thought you knew about bugs in 3 hours
"This is a group of animals I think people are particularly unfamiliar with. They are especially poorly covered in our science curriculum; they are e…
1 year, 7 months ago