RETURNING guest Vlad Chituc joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about donating his kidney to a stranger, the effective altruism movement, and his sexuality. Was EA’s turn to ‘long-termist’ goals like preventing evil AI inevitable? Have they strayed too far from their Peter Singer/Jeremy Bentham inspired roots? And why won’t David and Tamler donate their kidneys?
Plus a new article in Nature Climate Change argues that neuroscience can help the environment – can I interest you in some virtual trees?
Doell, K. C., Berman, M. G., Bratman, G. N., Knutson, B., Kühn, S., Lamm, C., ... & Brosch, T. (2023). Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research. Nature Climate Change, 1-10.
I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried. by Dylan Matthews [vox.com]
How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force by Dylan Matthews [vox.com]
Stop the Robot Apocalypse by Amia Srinivasan [lrb.co.uk]
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Episode 185: The Devil's Playground
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Episode 184: Tainted Glove
Episode 183: Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)
Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)
Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")
Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")
Episode 179: Talking Shit
Episode 178: Borges' Obsession-Obsession ("The Zahir")
Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism
Episode 176: Split-Brains and the (Dis)Unity of Consciousness
Episode 175: At Least We Didn’t Talk About Zombies (Nagel’s “What is it Like to be a Bat?”)
Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)
Episode 173: Talking to Your (Alternate) Self [Ted Chiang's "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom"]
Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?
Episode 171: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Theodicy? (The Book of Job)
Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking
Episode 169: A Bug's Life (Kafka's "The Metamorphosis")
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