TOPIC

General

AI Danger

Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI

Eliezer Yudkowsky insists that once artificial intelligence becomes smarter than people, everyone on earth will die. Listen…
Listen
Negotiate 300x300.jpg

Michael Munger on the Perfect vs. the Good

Is the perfect really the enemy of the good? Or is it the other way…
Listen
Young Boy Poetry 300x300.jpg

Dana Gioia on Poetry, Death and Mortality

When he was a child, poet Dana Gioia’s mother would come home from a long…
Listen
Impossible Takes Longer

Daniel Gordis on Israel and Impossible Takes Longer

As Israel turns 75, has it fulfilled the promise of its founders? Daniel Gordis of…
Listen
Excellent Advice For Living

Kevin Kelly on Advice, AI, and Technology

Photographer, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks about his book Excellent Advice for Living with EconTalk’s Russ…
Listen
Lobotomy Tools 300x300.jpg

Megan McArdle on the Oedipus Trap

When physician Walter Freeman died in 1972, he still believed that lobotomies were the best…
Listen
Bea Wolf

Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea Wolf

Tolkien read it as a tale about mortality. The poet David Whyte said it was…
Listen
Grain Tax 200x300.jpg

Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State

Since at least Adam Smith, the common wisdom has been that the transition from hunter-gathering…
Listen
Brain Enigma 300x300.jpg

Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental Illness

When psychiatrist Marco Ramos of Yale University prescribes antidepressants to patients in distress and they…
Listen
DALL·E 2023 02 12 11.29.15 Research Paper Mistakes Digital Art 300x300.png

Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen

Psychologist Adam Mastroianni says peer review has failed. Papers with major errors make it through…
Listen