Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Bethany McLean - Enron, FTX, 2008, Musk, Frauds, & Visionaries Release date : 2022-12-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This was one of my favorite episodes ever. Bethany McLean was the first reporter to question Enron’s earnings, and she has written some of the best finance books out there. We discuss: * The astounding similarities between Enron & FTX, * How visionaries are just frauds who succeed...
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications Release date : 2021-10-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Preventing the apocalypse may sound like an idiosyncratic activity, and it sometimes is justified on exotic grounds, such as the potential for humanity to become a galaxy-spanning civilisation. But the policy of US government agencies is already ...
Dec 13, 2022•3 hr 49 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism Release date : 2022-12-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Perhaps the most interesting episode so far. Byrne Hobart writes at thediff.co , analyzing inflections in finance and tech. He explains: * What happened at FTX * How drugs have induced past financial bubbles * How to be long AI while hedging Taiwan invasion * Whether Musk’s Twitter takeove...
Dec 03, 2022•1 hr 30 min
Podcast : EconTalk Episode : Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and René Girard Release date : 2022-11-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When the 20-year-old overachiever Johnathan Bi's first startup crashed and burned, he headed to a Zen retreat in the Catskills to "debug himself." He discovered René Girard and his mimetic theory--the idea that imitation is a key and often unconscious driver of human behavior. Listen as entrepreneur and philosopher Bi ...
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Podcast : Future of Life Institute Podcast Episode : Robin Hanson on Predicting the Future of Artificial Intelligence Release date : 2022-11-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Robin Hanson joins the podcast to discuss AI forecasting methods and metrics. Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:49 Robin's experience working with AI 06:04 Robin's views on AI development 10:41 Should we care about metrics for AI progress? 16:56 Is it useful to track AI ...
Nov 25, 2022•52 min
Podcast : Future of Life Institute Podcast Episode : Robin Hanson on Grabby Aliens and When Humanity Will Meet Them Release date : 2022-11-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Robin Hanson joins the podcast to explain his theory of grabby aliens and its implications for the future of humanity. Learn more about the theory here: https://grabbyaliens.com Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:49 Why should we care about aliens? 05:58 Loud alien civiliza...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr
Release date : 2022-11-20 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube (Stanford Academic Freedom Conference) https://www.youtube.com/@stanfordcli Release date: 2022-11-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization...
Nov 20, 2022•46 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Bryan Caplan - Feminists, Billionaires, and Demagogues Release date : 2022-10-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It was a fantastic pleasure to welcome Bryan Caplan back for a third time on the podcast! His most recent book is Don't Be a Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice . He explains why he thinks: - Feminists are mostly wrong, - We shouldn’t overtax our centi-billionaires, - Decolonization should have e...
Nov 07, 2022•2 hr 5 min
Podcast : Analysis Episode : Can Effective Altruism really change the world? Release date : 2022-10-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization If you want to do good in the world, should you be a doctor, or an aid worker? Or should you make a billion or two any way you can, and give it to good causes? Billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried argues this is the best use of his vast wealth. But philosophers argue charitable giving is often driven not by logic, but...
Nov 05, 2022•28 min
Podcast : Future of Life Institute Podcast Episode : Ajeya Cotra on how Artificial Intelligence Could Cause Catastrophe Release date : 2022-11-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Ajeya Cotra joins us to discuss how artificial intelligence could cause catastrophe. Follow the work of Ajeya and her colleagues: https://www.openphilanthropy.org Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:53 AI safety research in general 02:04 Realistic scenarios for AI catast...
Nov 05, 2022•54 min
Podcast : Meeting of Minds Podcast Episode : Peter Thiel on the Bible Release date : 2021-05-17 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Peter Thiel, the highly successful tech entrepreneur and author, discusses his mentor Rene Girard; the Bible, how we read it, and how it reads us; Jesus’ death and resurrection; atheism; and the limitless escalation of violence towards apocalypse. Timestamps: 0:43 The Bible reads us 2:02 Cain and Abel vs. Romulus and ...
Oct 16, 2022•44 min
Podcast : Meeting of Minds Podcast Episode : Peter Thiel: “The State Contains Violence” Release date : 2022-09-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Peter Thiel, arguably the most successful tech investor of modern times, also reads widely and thinks deeply about philosophy and theology. In a fascinating follow-up to his previous interview about his mentor, Rene Girard, Thiel discusses how modern ideologies such as fascism and communism "up the d...
Oct 09, 2022•59 min
Release date : 2022-09-19 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube (National Conservatism Conference, Miami) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=balGGAd6ZrI Release date: 2022-09-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization...
Sep 19, 2022•38 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha Release date : 2022-09-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Austin Vernon is an engineer working on a new method for carbon capture, and he has one of the most interesting blogs on the internet, where he writes about engineering, software, economics, and investing. We discuss how energy superabundance will change the world, how Star...
Sep 19, 2022•2 hr 24 min
Podcast : 80k After Hours Episode : Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project Release date : 2022-09-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode of 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin interviews Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla about the Shrimp Welfare Project , which he cofounded in 2021. It's the first project in the world focused on shrimp welfare specifically and now has six full-time staff. Links to learn more, highlights and full trans...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Podcast : Conversations with Tyler Episode : William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation Release date : 2022-08-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When Tyler is reviewing grants for Emergent Ventures, he is struck by how the ideas of effective altruism have so clearly influenced many of the smartest applicants, particularly the younger ones. And William MacAskill, whom Tyler considers one of the world’s mos...
Aug 12, 2022•51 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology Release date : 2022-08-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Will MacAskill is one of the founders of the Effective Altruist movement and the author of the upcoming book, What We Owe The Future . We talk about improving the future, risk of extinction & collapse, technological & moral change, problems of academia, who changes history, and...
Aug 12, 2022•56 min
Podcast : Dwarkesh Podcast Episode : Joseph Carlsmith - Utopia, AI, & Infinite Ethics Release date : 2022-08-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Joseph Carlsmith is a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy and a doctoral student in philosophy at the University of Oxford . We discuss utopia, artificial intelligence, computational power of the brain , infinite ethics , learning from the fact that you exist, perils of futurism, and blogg...
Aug 09, 2022•1 hr 31 min
Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us Release date : 2022-07-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Wind back 1,000 years and the moral landscape looks very different to today. Most farming societies thought slavery was natural and unobjectionable, premarital sex was an abomination, women should obey their husbands, and commoners should obey their monarchs. Wind back 10,000 years and thin...
Jul 31, 2022•3 hr 41 min
Podcast : Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy Episode : Kenneth Stanley - Greatness Without Goals - [Invest Like the Best, EP.283] Release date : 2022-06-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization My guest today is Ken Stanley . Ken is a Professor in Computer Science and a pioneer in the field of neuroevolution. He is also the co-author of a book called, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, which details a provocative idea that setting big, au...
Jul 02, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Release date : 2022-02-11 Notes from The Valmy : Source: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Fr8v2cAIw& Release date: 2021-10-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr
Podcast : Socrates in the City Episode : Peter Thiel: Zero to One Release date : 2020-02-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Eric Metaxas interviews entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel on his bestselling book ZERO TO ONE. Using Apollo 11 and Woodstock as reference points, Thiel and Metaxas explore the idea that we live in an age of technological stagnation, and cover a range of topics — globalization, Greta Thunberg, academia, the worst of th...
Nov 06, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Podcast : Village Global Podcast Episode : What Tyler Cowen Thinks About Basically Everything Release date : 2018-11-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this extended episode of Venture Stories, Erik interviews Tyler Cowen (@tylercowen), professor of economics at George Mason University. They discuss about a wide range of topics, including Tyler’s book Stubborn Attachments, the value of watching sports, travel, Bitcoin, the Knicks, and Effec...
Oct 09, 2021•1 hr 56 min
Podcast : Philosophize This! Episode : Episode #158 ... The Creation of Meaning - Nietzsche - The Ascetic Ideal Release date : 2021-10-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today we look at the creation of meaning through the work of Nietzsche. 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...
Oct 07, 2021•31 min
Release date : 2021-08-27 Notes from The Valmy : Source: University of Oxford (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) https://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/uehiro-lectures-2015 Release date: 2015-01-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization...
Aug 27, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Roger Crisp on Virtue Release date : 2008-10-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Roger Crisp discusses the nature of virtue in this interview with Nigel Warburton for the Philosophy Bites podcast....
Jun 16, 2021•14 min
Podcast : Philosophy Bites Episode : Roger Crisp on Utilitarianism Release date : 2007-07-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How should we live? John Stuart Mill, one of the great thinkers of the nineteenth century thought that we should maximise happiness. Here Roger Crisp, author of an acclaimed book on Mill, explains Mill's utilitarian ethical theory....
Jun 16, 2021•13 min
Podcast : 80,000 Hours Podcast Episode : #102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all Release date : 2021-06-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It can be tough to get people to truly care about reducing existential risks today. But spare a thought for the longtermist of the 17th century: they were surrounded by people who thought extinction was literally impossible. Today’s guest Tom Moynihan, intel...
Jun 14, 2021•3 hr 57 min
Podcast : Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS Episode : Shklar on Hypocrisy Release date : 2021-04-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Judith Shklar’s Ordinary Vices (1984) made the case that the worst of all the vices is cruelty. But that meant we needed to be more tolerant of some other common human failings, including snobbery, betrayal and hypocrisy. David explores what she had to say about some of the other authors in this series – includin...
May 19, 2021•46 min
Podcast : Utilitarian Episode : The Feeling of Value - Sharon Hewitt Rawlette Release date : 2020-08-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Sharon Hewitt Rawlette and I discuss the metaethical thesis of her book The Feeling of Value, which centers around normative qualia. We touch upon perspectival bias, pain and pleasure, how to construct a robust moral realism, the is-ought distinction, the open question argument, evolutionary debunking argument...
May 16, 2021•1 hr 59 min
