Podcast : Access to Excellence Podcast Episode : With Emergent Ventures, Tyler Cowen puts money where his mind is Release date : 2021-05-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Emergent Ventures, which looks for big and unique ideas, has raised $60 million and funded 200 projects. Mason economist and co-founder Tyler Cowen says the grants are “something you can win that’s not about connections.” Push ideas, he said. “Make the world tell you no.” Co...
May 05, 2021•47 min
Release date : 2021-04-29 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube (Stripe Press) https://d37ugbyn3rpeym.cloudfront.net/stripe-press/TAODSAE_zine_press.pdf Release date: 1996-06-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization...
Apr 29, 2021•45 min
Podcast : Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS Episode : Rawls on Justice Release date : 2021-04-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (1971) changed the face of modern political philosophy by reinventing the question of what constitutes fairness. From ‘the veil of ignorance’ to ‘reflective equilibrium’ it introduced new ways of thinking about the problem of justice along with new problems for thinking about politic...
Apr 27, 2021•48 min
Podcast : The TED Interview Episode : David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge Release date : 2018-10-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It can be easy to believe that humans are insignificant. We’re specks of dust on a random planet in a vast universe. Less powerful than elephants. Fewer than ants. But David Deutsch believes that’s all beside the point, because humans possess one unique skill: attaining knowledge. David Deutsch – Oxfo...
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr
Podcast : Hear This Idea Episode : #26 – Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk Release date : 2021-03-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Thomas Moynihan is a writer and researcher interested in the history of ideas surrounding existential risk and human flourishing. He completed a PhD on the history of human extinction, and currently works with Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. His most recent book is called X-Risk: How Human...
Mar 23, 2021•2 hr 15 min
Podcast : Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta Episode : Patrick Deneen - Liberalism & The Meaning of Freedom Release date : 2021-03-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization You can support this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/aksubversive Or check out my writing on Substack at https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/ I talk with Patrick Deneen about why Liberalism failed, about the frictionless society, being alone, technology and supernormal stimuli, why ...
Mar 18, 2021•1 hr 37 min
Podcast : Many Minds Episode : Culture, innovation, and the collective brain Release date : 2021-02-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Greetings friends and happy February! Today’s episode is a conversation with Dr. Michael Muthukrishna, an Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics. Michael’s research takes on a suite of topics that all start from a single big question: Why are we so different from other anim...
Mar 06, 2021•1 hr 29 min
Podcast : Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS Episode : Bentham on Pleasure Release date : 2021-02-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Jeremy Bentham’s Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is a definitive early statement of the basis of utilitarianism: how do we achieve the greatest happiness of the greatest number? David looks at Bentham’s rationale for this approach and the many criticisms it has faced. Bentham has often be...
Mar 01, 2021•48 min
Podcast : Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS Episode : Butler on Machines Release date : 2021-02-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872) is a strange and unsettling book about a world turned upside down. Usually classified as utopian or dystopian fiction, it also contains an eerie prophecy about the coming of intelligent machines. David explores the origins of Butler’s ideas and asks what they have to teach us about t...
Feb 25, 2021•47 min
Podcast : Hear This Idea Episode : #16 – SJ Beard on Parfit, Climate Change, and Existential Risk Release date : 2020-09-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Dr S. J. Beard is a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. With a background in philosophy, he works on ethical problems relating to the long-term future of humanity, as well as evaluating ex...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 35 min
Podcast : Future of Life Institute Podcast Episode : Kelly Wanser on Climate Change as a Possible Existential Threat Release date : 2020-09-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Kelly Wanser from SilverLining joins us to discuss techniques for climate intervention to mitigate the impacts of human induced climate change. Topics discussed in this episode include: - The risks of climate change in the short-term - Tipping points and tipping cascades ...
Oct 06, 2020•1 hr 46 min
Podcast : Future of Life Institute Podcast Episode : Iason Gabriel on Foundational Philosophical Questions in AI Alignment Release date : 2020-09-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In the contemporary practice of many scientific disciplines, questions of values, norms, and political thought rarely explicitly enter the picture. In the realm of AI alignment, however, the normative and technical come together in an important and inseparable way. ...
Sep 09, 2020•1 hr 55 min
Podcast : In Our Time Episode : Utilitarianism Release date : 2015-06-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A moral theory that emphasises ends over means, Utilitarianism holds that a good act is one that increases pleasure in the world and decreases pain. The tradition flourished in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, and has antecedents in ancient philosophy. According to Bentham, happiness is the m...
Aug 25, 2020•44 min
Podcast : a16z Podcast Episode : GPT-3: What's Hype, What's Real on the Latest in AI Release date : 2020-07-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode -- cross posted from our 16 Minutes show feed -- we cover all the buzz around GPT-3, the pre-trained machine learning model from OpenAI that’s optimized to do a variety of natural-language processing tasks. It’s a commercial product, built on research; so what does this mean for both sta...
Aug 22, 2020•33 min
Podcast : TALKING POLITICS Episode : Helen's History of Ideas Release date : 2020-07-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization David talks with Helen to get her take on the history of ideas - both what's there and what's missing. Why start with Hobbes? What can we learn from the Federalist Papers? Where's Nietzsche? Plus we talk about whether understanding where political ideas come from is liberating or limiting and we ask how many of them were just...
Aug 20, 2020•48 min
Podcast : Future of Life Institute Podcast Episode : Peter Railton on Moral Learning and Metaethics in AI Systems Release date : 2020-08-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization From a young age, humans are capable of developing moral competency and autonomy through experience. We begin life by constructing sophisticated moral representations of the world that allow for us to successfully navigate our way through complex social situations with sensi...
Aug 20, 2020•1 hr 42 min
Podcast : New Books in Philosophy Episode : Elijah Millgram, "John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life" (Oxford UP, 2019) Release date : 2019-11-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization According to an intuitive view, lives are meaningful when they manifest a directedness or instantiate a project such that the disparate events and endeavors “add up to” a life. John Stuart Mill’s life certainly was devoted to a project in that sense. Yet Mill’s life ...
Jul 29, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Aaron Ridley on Nietzsche on Art and Truth Release date : 2008-08-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas about art and truth run through much of his philosophical writing, but are most apparent in his first book, The Birth of Tragedy. In this episode of Philosophy Bites Nigel Warburton interviews Aaron Ridley about this topic....
Jul 08, 2020•16 min
Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Christopher Janaway on Nietzsche on Morality Release date : 2008-09-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Friedrich Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morality provides a radical view of the origins of our values. Nigel Warburton interviews Christopher Janaway about this important book in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast....
Jul 08, 2020•14 min
Podcast : Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford Episode : The Spreadsheet of Life and Death Release date : 2020-06-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Clive had a deadly form of cancer, but fortunately there was a new drug to treat it. Imagine his anger when he was told the treatment was too expensive. He’d entered a world where unique human lives are given a value in a mathematical formula. So how much should we spend to extend or save a life? And...
Jul 08, 2020•24 min
Podcast : Philosophize This! Episode : Episode #142 ... Richard Rorty Release date : 2020-04-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today we begin our discussion of the work of Richard Rorty. Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/ia...
Jun 26, 2020•29 min
Podcast : TALKING POLITICS Episode : Democracy For Young People Release date : 2018-12-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization As a follow-up to last year's How Democracy Ends lecture, David talks about how divisions between young and old are threatening representative democracy. He traces the story from Ancient Greece to Brexit and beyond, and asks how the age divide connects to the education divide in contemporary politics. Plus he offers some ra...
Jun 25, 2020•41 min
Podcast : The Portal Episode : 23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits Release date : 2020-02-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Philosopher and University of Chicago Professor Agnes Callard sits down with Eric on this episode of the portal. Agnes is a champion of the philosophical tradition of attempting to detach the capacity for inquiry and reason from the fog of feelings and societal taboos that often keep u...
Jun 24, 2020•2 hr 12 min
Podcast : EconTalk Episode : Agnes Callard on Philosophy, Progress, and Wisdom Release date : 2020-06-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Philosopher and author Agnes Callard talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of philosophy, the power of philosophy, and the search for wisdom and truth. This is a wide-ranging conversation related to the question of how we learn, how to behave ethically, and the role of religion and philosophy ...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Release date : 2020-06-19 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube (The Torch of Progress) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rxS6kj5Zt0 Release date: 2020-06-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization...
Jun 19, 2020•55 min
Podcast : Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy Episode : John Collison – Growing the Internet Economy - [Invest Like the Best, EP.178] Release date : 2020-06-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization My guest today is John Collison, the Co-Founder of the digital payments company Stripe. Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, a lofty and deeply interesting pursuit. John is clearly a voracious learner across business and in...
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr 23 min
Podcast : Rationally Speaking Podcast Episode : Rationally Speaking #141 - Dan Sperber on "The Argumentative Theory of reason" Release date : 2015-08-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The traditional story about reason is that it evolved to help humans see the world more clearly and (thereby) make better decisions. But on that view, some mysteries remain: why is the human brain so biased? Why are we so much better at defending our pre-existin...
Jun 15, 2020•56 min
Podcast : EconTalk Episode : Rory Sutherland on Alchemy Release date : 2019-11-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Author and Advertising Executive Rory Sutherland of Ogilvy talks about his book Alchemy with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Sutherland makes the case for the magic (yes, magic!) of advertising and branding in helping markets work well. This is a wide-ranging conversation on consumer choice, public policy, travel, real estate, and corp...
Jun 14, 2020•1 hr 24 min
Release date : 2020-06-14 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube (Stanford Ethics in Society) https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/essays/economic-growth-moral-imperative Release date: 2019-11-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization...
Jun 14, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Podcast : FT Alphachat Episode : Tyler Cowen's stubborn attachments Release date : 2017-04-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Economist and polymathic author Tyler Cowen talks to Cardiff about his essay, "Stubborn Attachments", in which he shares his vision for a free and prosperous society - and the philosophical foundations necessary to build it. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy...
Jun 14, 2020•1 hr 18 min
