Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI
Eliezer Yudkowsky insists that once artificial intelligence becomes smarter than people, everyone on earth will die. Listen…
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Michael Munger on the Perfect vs. the Good
Is the perfect really the enemy of the good? Or is it the other way…
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Dana Gioia on Poetry, Death and Mortality
When he was a child, poet Dana Gioia’s mother would come home from a long…
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Daniel Gordis on Israel and Impossible Takes Longer
As Israel turns 75, has it fulfilled the promise of its founders? Daniel Gordis of…
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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…
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Megan McArdle on the Oedipus Trap
When physician Walter Freeman died in 1972, he still believed that lobotomies were the best…
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Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea Wolf
Tolkien read it as a tale about mortality. The poet David Whyte said it was…
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Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State
Since at least Adam Smith, the common wisdom has been that the transition from hunter-gathering…
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Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental Illness
When psychiatrist Marco Ramos of Yale University prescribes antidepressants to patients in distress and they…
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Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen
Psychologist Adam Mastroianni says peer review has failed. Papers with major errors make it through…
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