#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US
"Ring one: total annihilation; no cellular life remains. Ring two, another three-mile diameter out: everything is ablaze. Ring three, another three or five miles out on every side: third-degree burns ...
12 Jul 20241h 54min
#191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI
This is the second part of our marathon interview with Carl Shulman. The first episode is on the economy and national security after AGI. You can listen to them in either order!If we develop artificia...
5 Jul 20242h 20min
#191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
This is the first part of our marathon interview with Carl Shulman. The second episode is on government and society after AGI. You can listen to them in either order!The human brain does what it does ...
27 Jun 20244h 14min
#190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious
"One of the most amazing things about planet Earth is that there are complex bags of mostly water — you and me – and we can look up at the stars, and look into our brains, and try to grapple with the ...
7 Jun 20242h
#189 – Rachel Glennerster on why we still don’t have vaccines that could save millions
"You can’t charge what something is worth during a pandemic. So we estimated that the value of one course of COVID vaccine in January 2021 was over $5,000. They were selling for between $6 and $40. So...
29 Mai 20242h 48min
#188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good
"Suppose we make these grants, we do some of those experiments I talk about. We discover, for example — I’m just making this up — but we give people superforecasting tests when they’re doing peer revi...
23 Mai 20242h 40min
#187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a "space bastard"
"Earth economists, when they measure how bad the potential for exploitation is, they look at things like, how is labour mobility? How much possibility do labourers have otherwise to go somewhere else?...
14 Mai 20243h 6min
#186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives
"I work in a place called Uttar Pradesh, which is a state in India with 240 million people. One in every 33 people in the whole world lives in Uttar Pradesh. It would be the fifth largest country if i...
1 Mai 20241h 18min
