Release date : 2020-06-14 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube (University of California, Berkeley) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szgMiqbR57s Release date: 2002-10-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization...
Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Adrian Moore on Bernard Williams on Ethics Release date : 2013-11-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Bernard Williams was one of the most brilliant philosophers of his generation. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Adrian Moore discusses his ideas about Ethics....
Podcast : The Wright Show Episode : Robert Wright & Galen Strawson Release date : 2018-02-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Why scientific materialism is harder to define than you think … Galen explains panpsychism … What does “mind is all there is to reality” mean? … Is human consciousness epiphenomenal? … Do physical laws come from somewhere? … Is it like something to be a rock? (And is Galen saying it is?) … Galen: Discussion of the mi...
Podcast : Elucidations Episode : Episode 118: Tyler Cowen discusses Stubborn Attachments Release date : 2019-09-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode, Tyler Cowen lays out an interesting normative ethical theory according to which we should be utilitarians, but with a twist: we should be utilitarians who care just as much about the humans of the future as we care about people now. Re-emphasizing our commitment to future people, he...
Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments* Release date : 2018-10-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this special episode, Rob Wiblin of 80,000 Hours has the super-sized conversation he wants to have with Tyler about Stubborn Attachments. In addition to a deep examination of the ideas in the book, the conversation ranges far and wide across Tyler's thinking, including why we won't leav...
Podcast : Future of Life Institute Podcast Episode : Sam Harris on Global Priorities, Existential Risk, and What Matters Most Release date : 2020-06-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Human civilization increasingly has the potential both to improve the lives of everyone and to completely destroy everything. The proliferation of emerging technologies calls our attention to this never-before-seen power — and the need to cultivate the wisdom wit...
Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Cheryl Misak on Frank Ramsey and Ludwig Wittgenstein Release date : 2020-05-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Cheryl Misak has recently published a biography of F.P. Ramsey , the great Cambridge thinker who died at the age of only 26, but who nevertheless made a significant impact in several different fields including philosophy, mathematics, and economics. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast s...
Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Dan Sperber on the Enigma of Reasonhthttps://www.dan.sperber.fr/ Release date : 2011-09-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Our reasoning capacity sets us apart from other animals. But reason is frequently prone to error. Why then did we evolve with a capacity for reason at all? This is a question that has vexed Dan Sperber - with Hugo Mercier he has been researching the topic. Dan Sperber discusses their re...
Podcast : The Audio Long Read Episode : Why we need worst-case thinking to prevent pandemics Release date : 2020-03-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Threats to humanity, and how we address them, define our time. Why are we still so complacent about facing up to existential risk? By Toby Ord. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/longreadpod">theguardian.com/longreadpod</a>...
Podcast : Rationally Speaking Podcast Episode : Rationally Speaking #232 - Tyler Cowen on "Defending big business against its critics" Release date : 2019-04-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Economist Tyler Cowen discusses his latest book, "Big Business: A love-letter to an American anti-hero." Why has anti-capitalist sentiment increased recently, and to what extent is it justified? How much are corporations to blame for wage stagnation, cli...
Podcast : EconTalk Episode : Jerry Muller on the Tyranny of Metrics Release date : 2018-04-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Historian and author Jerry Muller of Catholic University talks about his latest book, The Tyranny of Metrics, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Muller argues that public policy and management are overly focused on measurable outcomes as a measure of success. This leads to organizations and agencies over-focusing on metri...
Podcast : EconTalk Episode : Joshua Greene on Moral Tribes, Moral Dilemmas, and Utilitarianism Release date : 2015-01-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Joshua Greene, of Harvard University and author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about morality and the challenges we face when our morality conflicts with that of others. Topics discussed include the difference between wh...
Podcast : EdgeCast Episode : Toby Ord - We Have the Power to Destroy Ourselves Without the Wisdom to Ensure That We Don't Release date : 2020-04-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization TOBY ORD is a senior research fellow in philosophy at Oxford University and author of _The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. _The Conversation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/toby_ord-we-have-the-power-to-destroy-ourselves-without-the-wisdom-...
Podcast : Astral Codex Ten Podcast Episode : Book Review: Hoover Release date : 2020-03-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/17/book-review-hoover/ You probably remember Herbert Hoover as the guy who bungled the Great Depression. Maybe you shouldn’t. Maybe you should remember him as a bold explorer looking for silver in the jungles of Burma. Or as the heroic defender of Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion. Or a...
Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress Release date : 2020-05-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Companies use about 300,000 times more computation training the best AI systems today than they did in 2012 and algorithmic innovations have also made them 25 times more efficient at the same tasks. These are the headline results of two recent papers — AI and Compute and AI and E...
Podcast : Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS Episode : Wollstonecraft on Sexual Politics Release date : 2020-04-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is one of the most remarkable books in the history of ideas. A classic of early feminism, it uses what’s wrong with the relationship between men and women to illustrate what’s gone wrong with politics. It’s a story of lust and power, ...
Podcast : Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS Episode : Hobbes on the State Release date : 2020-04-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) reimagined how we could do politics. It redefined many of the ideas that continue to shape modern politics: representation, sovereignty, the state. But in Leviathan these ideas have a strange and puzzling power. David explores what Hobbes was trying to achieve and how a vision of ...
Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox Release date : 2020-04-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Accuracy is only one of the things we want from forecasters, says Philip Tetlock, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction . People also look to forecasters for ideological assurance, entertainment, and to minimize ...
Podcast : The Portal Episode : 30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall Release date : 2020-04-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Just before the great indooring due to the Pandemic of 2020, Eric sat down with conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss his book "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success." Over champagne flutes filled with bubbly, the two discussed the various ways that the success...
Podcast : The Portal Episode : 27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses Release date : 2020-03-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this second episode of the Portal to be released during shelter-in-place restrictions during the Corona Virus Pandemic, we release an older discussion with Daniel Shmachtenberger on whether there is any plausible long term scenario for human flourishing confined to a single shared planet. Daniel is s...
Podcast : The Gray Area with Sean Illing Episode : An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik) Release date : 2019-06-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “Liberalism is as distinct a tradition as exists in political history, but it suffers from being a practice before it is an ideology, a temperament and a tone and a way of managing the world more than a fixed set of beliefs.” That’s from Adam Gopnik’s new book A ...
Podcast : 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle Episode : 13 Minutes to the Moon: 1. ‘We choose to go’, Apollo 11 Release date : 2019-05-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization With no idea how to get there, the race to the moon begins – "we intend to win". To understand how the story ends, we need to start at the very beginning. With Kevin Fong. Starring: Michael Collins Steve Bales Margaret Hamilton Jim Lovell Charlie Duke Theme music by Hans Zi...
Podcast : Long Now Episode : Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power Release date : 2018-12-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “This time is different.” Historians: “Ha.” “The Net is net beneficial.” Historian Niall Ferguson: “Globalization is in crisis. Populism is on the march. Authoritarian states are ascendant. Technology meanwhile marches inexorably ahead, threatening to render most human beings redundant or immortal or both. How do we make se...
Podcast : Future of Life Institute Podcast Episode : AIAP: On Becoming a Moral Realist with Peter Singer Release date : 2018-10-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Are there such things as moral facts? If so, how might we be able to access them? Peter Singer started his career as a preference utilitarian and a moral anti-realist, and then over time became a hedonic utilitarian and a moral realist. How does such a transition occur, and which pos...
Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #46 - Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia Release date : 2018-10-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The barista gives you your coffee and change, and you walk away from the busy line. But you suddenly realise she gave you $1 less than she should have. Do you brush your way past the people now waiting, or just accept this as a dollar you’re never getting back...
