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Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is

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2024/05/21

Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show Episode: Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He IsRelease date: 2024-04-26Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issued a fatwa calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years trying to escape the shadow the fatwa cast on him, and for some time, he thought he succeeded. But in 2022, an assailant attacked him onstage at a speaking engagement in western New York

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THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManus

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2024/05/18

Podcast: Political Philosophy Podcast Episode: THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManusRelease date: 2024-04-28What defines the modern American right? Matt McManus argues we should understand the movement as fundementally about hierarchy, we then get into a general conversation about the Biden administration and the direction of the US Left.

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THE POLITICAL RIGHT & EQUALITY With MattMcManus

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2024/05/18

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David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case...

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2024/05/13

Podcast: The Gradient: Perspectives on AI Episode: David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case Against LongtermismRelease date: 2024-05-02Episode 122I spoke with Professor David Thorstad about:* The practical difficulties of doing interdisciplinary work* Why theories of human rationality should account for boundedness, heuristics, and other cognitive limitations* why EA epistemics suck (ok, it’s a little more nuanced than that)Professor Thorstad is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at

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David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case...

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2024/05/13

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Peter Thiel on Political Theology

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2024/04/17

Podcast: Conversations with Tyler Episode: Peter Thiel on Political TheologyRelease date: 2024-04-17In this conversation recorded live in Miami, Tyler and Peter Thiel dive deep into the complexities of political theology, including why it’s a concept we still need today, why Peter’s against Calvinism (and rationalism), whether the Old Testament should lead us to be woke, why Carl Schmitt is enjoying a resurgence, whether we’re entering a new age of millenarian thought, the one existential risk

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Peter Thiel on Political Theology

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2024/04/17

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#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism

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2024/04/02

Podcast: Making Sense with Sam Harris Episode: #361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective AltruismRelease date: 2024-04-01Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about the implosion of FTX and the effect that it has had on the Effective Altruism movement. They discuss the logic of “earning to give,” the mind of SBF, his philanthropy, the character of the EA community, potential problems with focusing on long-term outcomes, AI risk, the effects of the FTX collapse on Will personally, and other topics

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#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism

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2024/04/02

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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build &...

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2024/03/30

Podcast: Dwarkesh Podcast Episode: Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build & Understand GPT-7's MindRelease date: 2024-03-28Had so much fun chatting with my good friends Trenton Bricken and Sholto Douglas on the podcast.No way to summarize it, except: This is the best context dump out there on how LLMs are trained, what capabilities they're likely to soon have, and what exactly is going on inside them.You would be shocked how much of what I know about this field, I've learned just from

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Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken - How to Build &...

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2024/03/30

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An even deeper atheism

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2024/03/11

Podcast: Joe Carlsmith Audio Episode: An even deeper atheismRelease date: 2024-01-11Who isn't a paperclipper?Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/11/an-even-deeper-atheism This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays that have been released thus far:

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An even deeper atheism

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2024/03/11

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Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in...

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2024/01/10

Podcast: a16z Podcast Episode: Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public SafetyRelease date: 2024-01-10Flock is a public safety technology platform that operates in over 4,000 cities across the United States, and solves about 2,200 crimes daily. That’s 10 percent of reported crimes nationwide.Taken from a16z’s recent LP Summit, a16z General Partner David Ulevitch joins forces with Flock Safety’s founder, Garrett Langley and Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan

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Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in...

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2024/01/10

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Biden's Executive Order and AI Safety with Flo...

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2023/11/08

Podcast: "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis Episode: Biden's Executive Order and AI Safety with Flo Crivello, Founder of Lindy AIRelease date: 2023-11-03In this episode, Flo Crivello, founder of Lindy AI, joins Nathan to chat about Biden’s executive order, and the state of AI safety. They discuss Flo’s thoughts on the executive order, building AGI kill switches, self driving cars, and more. If you need an ERP platform, check out our sponsor NetSuite:

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Biden's Executive Order and AI Safety with Flo...

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2023/11/08

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Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover

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2023/11/01

Podcast: Dwarkesh Podcast Episode: Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI TakeoverRelease date: 2023-10-31Paul Christiano is the world’s leading AI safety researcher. My full episode with him is out!We discuss:- Does he regret inventing RLHF, and is alignment necessarily dual-use?- Why he has relatively modest timelines (40% by 2040, 15% by 2030),- What do we want post-AGI world to look like (do we want to keep gods enslaved forever)?- Why he’s leading the push to get to labs develop responsible

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Paul Christiano - Preventing an AI Takeover

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2023/11/01

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Tyler Cowen: From Avant-Garde to Pop (Bonus DJ Episode)

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2023/10/31

Podcast: Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin Episode: Tyler Cowen: From Avant-Garde to Pop (Bonus DJ Episode)Release date: 2023-10-18Tyler Cowen has long nurtured an obsession with music. It’s one of the few addictions Tyler believes is actually conducive to a fulfilling intellectual life.In this bonus episode, an addendum to Rick’s conversation with Tyler, Rick sits with Tyler as he plays and talks through the music that moves him: from the outer bounds of the avant-garde to contemporary pop music and

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