Episodes

70

Liv Boeree on Healthy vs Unhealthy Competition

69

Jon Y (Asianometry) on Problems And Progress in Semiconductor Manufacturing

68

Steven Teles on What the Conservative Legal Movement Teaches About Policy Advocacy

67

Guive Assadi on Whether Humanity Will Choose Its Future

66

Michael Cohen on Input Tampering in Advanced RL Agents

65

Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up

64

Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk

63

Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance

62

Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering, Value Diversity, and Grand Futures

61

Rory Stewart on GiveDirectly and Massively Scaling Cash Transfers

60

Jaime Sevilla on Trends in Machine Learning

59

Chris Miller on the History of Semiconductors, TSMC, and the CHIPS Act

58

Carl Robichaud on Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War

57

Greg Nemet on Technological Change and How Solar Became Cheap

56

Dewi Erwan on BlueDot Impact and Scaling High-Impact Organisations

55

Jassi Pannu and Joshua Monrad on Pandemic Preparedness

54

Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data

53

Tessa Alexanian and Janvi Ahuja on Synthethic Biology and GCBRs

52

Michael Aird on how to do Impact-Driven Research

51

Kevin Esvelt and Jonas Sandbrink on Risks from Biological Research

50

Doyne Farmer on Complexity and Predicting Technological Progress

49

Ajay Karpur on Metagenomic Sequencing

48

Spencer Weart on the Discovery of Global Warming

47

Jason Crawford on Progress Studies