#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work
Rich countries seem to find it harder and harder to do anything that creates some losers. People who don’t want houses, offices, power stations, trains, subway stations (or whatever) built in their ar...
19 Dec 20243h 25min
#210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals
"I really don’t want to give the impression that I think it is easy to make predictable, controlled, safe interventions in wild systems where there are many species interacting. I don’t think it’s eas...
29 Nov 20243h 21min
#209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit
One OpenAI critic calls it “the theft of at least the millennium and quite possibly all of human history.” Are they right?Back in 2015 OpenAI was but a humble nonprofit. That nonprofit started a for-p...
27 Nov 20241h 22min
#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world
"I think stories are the way we shift the Overton window — so widen the range of things that are acceptable for policy and palatable to the public. Almost by definition, a lot of things that are going...
21 Nov 20242h 22min
#207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more founders should follow her lead
"I think one of the reasons I took [shutting down my charity] so hard is because entrepreneurship is all about this bets-based mindset. So you say, “I’m going to take a bunch of bets. I’m going to tak...
14 Nov 20242h 58min
Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests
With kids very much on the team's mind we thought it would be fun to review some comments about parenting featured on the show over the years, then have hosts Luisa Rodriguez and Rob Wiblin react to t...
8 Nov 20241h 35min
#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness
"In that famous example of the dress, half of the people in the world saw [blue and black], half saw [white and gold]. It turns out there’s individual differences in how brains take into account ambie...
1 Nov 20242h 33min
How much does a vote matter? (Article)
If you care about social impact, is voting important? In this piece, Rob investigates the two key things that determine the impact of your vote:The chances of your vote changing an election’s outcome....
28 Okt 202432min
