Episodes

80

Dan Williams on How Persuasion Works

79

Tamay Besiroglu on Explosive Growth from AI

78

Jacob Trefethen on Global Health R&D

77

Elizabeth Seger on Open Source AI

76

Joe Carlsmith on Scheming AI

75

Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World

74

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley on Barriers to Bioweapons

73

Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare

72

Richard Bruns on Indoor Air Quality

71

Saloni Dattani on Malaria Vaccines and Missing Data in Global Health

70

Liv Boeree on Healthy vs Unhealthy Competition

69

Jon Y (Asianometry) on Problems And Progress in Semiconductor Manufacturing

68

Steven Teles on What the Conservative Legal Movement Teaches About Policy Advocacy

67

Guive Assadi on Whether Humanity Will Choose Its Future

66

Michael Cohen on Input Tampering in Advanced RL Agents

65

Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up

64

Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk

63

Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance

62

Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering, Value Diversity, and Grand Futures

61

Rory Stewart on GiveDirectly and Massively Scaling Cash Transfers

60

Jaime Sevilla on Trends in Machine Learning

59

Chris Miller on the History of Semiconductors, TSMC, and the CHIPS Act

58

Carl Robichaud on Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War

57

Greg Nemet on Technological Change and How Solar Became Cheap