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01:07:47

How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?

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2025/10/17

Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show (LS 75 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?Pub date: 2025-10-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEliezer Yudkowsky is as afraid as you could possibly be. He makes his case.Yudkowsky is a pioneer of A.I. safety research, who started warning about the existential risks of the technology decades ago, – influencing a lot of leading figures in the field. But over the

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01:02:40

Allen B. Downey, "Probably Overthinking It: How to...

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2025/10/16

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Allen B. Downey, "Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions" (U Chicago Press, 2023)Pub date: 2025-10-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationStatistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor's office, and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weather. Blogger, teacher, and

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01:03:43

In Praise of Commercial Culture

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2025/10/15

Podcast: The Marginal Revolution Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: In Praise of Commercial CulturePub date: 2025-09-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTyler and Alex revisit Tyler’s 1998 book and trace how commerce disciplines and amplifies creativity. Great artists bargained hard because money buys orchestras and time. “Inspired consumption” means high-quality audiences shape better art. Dynamic, Hayekian competition

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01:20:08

Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable

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2025/10/14

Podcast: Dwarkesh Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitablePub date: 2025-10-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationNick Lane has some pretty wild ideas about the evolution of life.He thinks early life was continuous with the spontaneous chemistry of undersea hydrothermal vents.Nick’s story may be wrong, but I find it remarkable that with just that starting point, you can

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00:48:38

Why Money Doesn't Buy Happiness in America

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2025/10/13

Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Why Money Doesn't Buy Happiness in AmericaPub date: 2025-10-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmerica is rich—richer than ever. Yet Americans are more anxious, lonelier, and less satisfied than people in many poorer nations. The 2025 World Happiness Report ranked the U.S. 24th in life satisfaction, its lowest on record. Maybe, as social scientists say,

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01:05:12

Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution...

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2025/10/12

Podcast: Princeton UP Ideas Podcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)Pub date: 2025-09-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligenceEverything Evolves: Why Evolution

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00:50:07

Christopher Caldwell & the age of entitlement

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2025/10/11

Podcast: Givers, Doers, & Thinkers—A Podcast on Philanthropy and Civil Society (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Christopher Caldwell & the age of entitlementPub date: 2021-11-10Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDuring this episode of Givers, Doers, & Thinkers, Jeremy chats with acclaimed journalist Christopher Caldwell about the surprising implications of the reforms of the 1960s, including civil rights legislation for the

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00:58:59

David J. Lynch, "The World's Worst Bet: How the...

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2025/10/10

Podcast: New Books in Economics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: David J. Lynch, "The World's Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And What Would Make It Right)" (PublicAffairs, 2025)Pub date: 2025-09-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe triumphant globalization that began in the 1990s has given way to a world riven by conflict, populism, and economic nationalism. In The World's Worst Bet: How the Globalization

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00:27:22

Episode 172: Phillip and William Taubman on McNamara...

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2025/10/09

Podcast: Bookstack (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 172: Phillip and William Taubman on McNamara at WarPub date: 2025-10-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases…This week, Richard Aldous talks to Phillip Taubman and William Taubman, authors of

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01:35:30

The Power of Common Knowledge: Steven Pinker on...

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2025/10/08

Podcast: The Michael Shermer Show (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Power of Common Knowledge: Steven Pinker on Language, Norms, and PunishmentPub date: 2025-09-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCommon knowledge is necessary for coordination, for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right, using paper currency, and coalescing behind a political leader or movement. It’s also necessary for social

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00:56:56

The Roman Economy: The lives of the 90% | Kimberly...

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2025/10/07

Podcast: The Economic and Political History PodcastEpisode: The Roman Economy: The lives of the 90% | Kimberly Bowes with Javier MejiaPub date: 2025-10-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationInterview with Kim Bowes, author of 'Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent'The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with

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00:35:23

Joanna Pocock: Greyhound

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2025/10/06

Podcast: The Book Club (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Joanna Pocock: GreyhoundPub date: 2025-08-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSam Leith's guest for this week's Book Club podcast is Joanna Pocock, whose new bookGreyhounddescribes two trips she took across America by Greyhound bus in 2006 and 2023. They talk about the literature of the road, that distinctively American and usually distinctively male genre, and the meaning

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00:56:37

(re-release) JANE GOODALL: recognising the animal as...

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2025/10/06

Podcast: Lives Well Lived (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: (re-release) JANE GOODALL: recognising the animal as an individualPub date: 2025-10-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJane Goodall died this week at the age of 91. To mark her exceptional life we are re-releasing our truly fantastic episode that was recorded at her family home in England over a year ago..Jane recounts her journey from a curious child to activist, and her

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02:07:59

The Greatest Knight That Ever Lived: William the Marshal

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2025/10/03

Podcast: Dan Snow's History Hit (LS 76 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: The Greatest Knight That Ever Lived: William the MarshalPub date: 2025-09-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWilliam the Marshal’s story reads like a legend. Born a landless younger son, he rose through sheer skill and courage to become the greatest knight of his age.In this Explainer episode, Dan takes you through his extraordinary life - from tournament

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00:41:17

Thucydides, the Greatest Historian of All Time:...

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2025/10/03

Podcast: Tides of History (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Thucydides, the Greatest Historian of All Time: Interview with Robin Waterfield and Professor Polly LowPub date: 2025-09-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThucydides is perhaps the greatest historian to ever live, a man whose work on the Peloponnesian War has been read, digested, and debated for more than 2400 years. Robin Waterfield and Professor Polly Low have

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00:58:55

581. The Power of Status: Examining the Matthew...

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2025/10/02

Podcast: unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: 581. The Power of Status: Examining the Matthew Effect feat. Toby E. StuartPub date: 2025-09-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow does status infiltrate all of our decisions, and how is status allocated in a networked society?Toby E. Stuart is a professor at the Haas School at UC Berkeley and also the author of the new book called Anointed: The Extraordinary

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00:45:06

Ep. 13: Peter Hessler on 'Other Rivers'

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2025/10/01

Podcast: China Books Podcast (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Ep. 13: Peter Hessler on 'Other Rivers'Pub date: 2024-10-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOur guest this month is renowned writer Peter Hessler, a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of five books about China, most recently Other Rivers: A Chinese Education, published earlier this year by Penguin Press. In the book, Hessler details his most recent stint living

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00:44:53

Mark Gilbert, "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to...

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2025/09/30

Podcast: New Books in Political Science (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Mark Gilbert, "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy" (Norton, 2024)Pub date: 2024-06-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationItaly's resurrection from 20 years of fascism, three years of war, and two years of civil war is one of the 20th century's great, under-told stories. It's a history of a decade of clashes and compromises between two mass movements -

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01:04:15

#093 - George Owers - Britain's 350-Year Culture War:...

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2025/09/29

Podcast: Thinking Class (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: #093 - George Owers - Britain's 350-Year Culture War: The Birth Of Party PoliticsPub date: 2025-09-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGeorge Owers is an editor, writer, and author of the newly released The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain. In this episode, George and I think out loud about the origins of party politics in Britain, tracing how the

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00:51:07

David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the...

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2025/09/28

Podcast: Conversations with Tyler (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf StatesPub date: 2025-09-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDavid Commins, author of the new book Saudi Arabia: A Modern History, brings decades of scholarship and firsthand experience to explain the kingdom's unlikely rise. Tyler and David discuss why Wahhabism was essential for Saudi

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