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
#205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do
"You have a tank split in two parts: if the fish gets in the compartment with a red circle, it will receive food, and food will be delivered in the other tank as well. If the fish takes the blue trian...
23 Okt 20243h 11min
#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism
Rob Wiblin speaks with FiveThirtyEight election forecaster and author Nate Silver about his new book: On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.Links to learn more, highlights, video, and full transc...
16 Okt 20241h 57min
#203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation
"In the human case, it would be mistaken to give a kind of hour-by-hour accounting. You know, 'I had +4 level of experience for this hour, then I had -2 for the next hour, and then I had -1' — and you...
3 Okt 20241h 25min
Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
In this episode from our second show, 80k After Hours, Luisa Rodriguez and Keiran Harris chat about the consequences of letting go of enduring guilt, shame, anger, and pride.Links to learn more, highl...
27 Sep 20241h 36min
#202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science
"For every far-out idea that turns out to be true, there were probably hundreds that were simply crackpot ideas. In general, [science] advances building on the knowledge we have, and seeing what the n...
19 Sep 20242h 20min
#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
"Perception is quite difficult with cameras: even if you have a stereo camera, you still can’t really build a map of where everything is in space. It’s just very difficult. And I know that sounds surp...
13 Sep 20242h 1min
#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks
"It’s very hard to find examples where people say, 'I’m starting from this point. I’m starting from this belief.' So we wanted to make that very legible to people. We wanted to say, 'Experts think thi...
4 Sep 20242h 49min
