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 146: Sore Losers (Does Sports Make Us Unhappy?)
Episode 145: Lost in Borges' Garden
Episode 144: Borges' Babylon
Episode 143: The Psychology of Personality
Episode 142: Suicide (with Matthew Nock)
Episode 141: Implicit Bias
Episode 140: Milgram's Mice
Episode 139: Honor, Identity, and Headbutts
Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Episode 137: Are Buddhists Afraid to Die? (with Shaun Nichols)
Episode 136: The Good Life (with Laurie Santos)
Episode 135: Utilitarianism and Moral Identity
Episode 134: Digital Outrage (with Molly Crockett)
Episode 133: Death and Dreams
Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno)
Episode 131: I Have No Genitals and I Must Scream
Episode 130: Dehumanization and Disintegration (with Paul Bloom)
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