David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), & The Enemies of Progress
At a time when the Enlightenment is under attack from without and within, I bring together two of the most thoughtful defenders of progress and reason, for their first ever public dialogue. Steven Pin...
19 Des 20231h 55min
Shruti Rajagopalan — On Spotting Talent, And Making Sense of Rising India
Shruti Rajagopalan is an Indian-American economist. She leads the Indian political economy research program and Emergent Ventures India at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She also host...
28 Nov 20232h 45min
Raghuram Rajan — Debt, Monetary Policy, and Unintended Consequences
What were the deep causes of the global financial crisis and great recession? Has unconventional monetary policy in the wake of the crisis done more harm than good? And should monetary policy target f...
1 Nov 20231h 51min
Peter Singer — Moral Truths and Moral Secrets
Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He is widely regarded as the world's most influential living philosopher. Full transcript available at: jnwpod.com Epi...
19 Sep 20231h 54min
Peter Turchin — Why Societies Fall Apart (And Why the US May Be Next)
Peter Turchin is a complexity scientist and one of the founders of cliodynamics — a new, cross-disciplinary field that applies mathematics and big data to test historical theories. Full transcript ava...
30 Aug 20231h 41min
Stephen Wolfram — Constructing the Computational Paradigm
Stephen Wolfram is a physicist, computer scientist and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, and the author of A New Kind of Science...
16 Aug 20234h 24min
Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution
Katalin Karikó is a Hungarian-American biochemist. She is one of the inventors of mRNA technology. Full transcript available at: thejspod.com. Episode recorded on 15 February 2023.See omnystudio.com/l...
1 Aug 20232h 3min
Richard Rhodes — The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes is an American historian and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Full transcript available at: thejspod.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...
25 Jul 20233h 42min
