#50 - David Denkenberger on how to feed all 8b people through an asteroid/nuclear winter
If an asteroid impact or nuclear winter blocked the sun for years, our inability to grow food would result in billions dying of starvation, right? According to Dr David Denkenberger, co-author of Feed...
27 Des 20182h 57min
#49 - Rachel Glennerster on a year's worth of education for 30c & other development 'best buys'
If I told you it's possible to deliver an extra year of ideal primary-level education for under $1, would you believe me? Hopefully not - the claim is absurd on its face. But it may be true nonetheles...
20 Des 20181h 35min
#48 - Brian Christian on better living through the wisdom of computer science
Please let us know if we've helped you: Fill out our annual impact survey Ever felt that you were so busy you spent all your time paralysed trying to figure out where to start, and couldn't get much ...
22 Nov 20183h 15min
#47 - Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles
After dropping out of a machine learning PhD at Stanford, Daniel Ziegler needed to decide what to do next. He’d always enjoyed building stuff and wanted to shape the development of AI, so he thought a...
2 Nov 20182h 4min
#46 - Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia
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 waitin...
23 Okt 20182h 49min
#45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization & thinking long-term
I've probably spent more time reading Tyler Cowen - Professor of Economics at George Mason University - than any other author. Indeed it's his incredibly popular blog Marginal Revolution that prompted...
17 Okt 20182h 30min
#44 - Paul Christiano on how we'll hand the future off to AI, & solving the alignment problem
Paul Christiano is one of the smartest people I know. After our first session produced such great material, we decided to do a second recording, resulting in our longest interview so far. While challe...
2 Okt 20183h 51min
#43 - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines
In Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film Dr. Strangelove, the American president is informed that the Soviet Union has created a secret deterrence system which will automatically wipe out humanity upon detect...
25 Sep 20182h 44min
