#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
#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
