Kevin Esvelt, a scientist at MIT, argues that research intended to prevent pandemics is actually putting us in a lot more danger. Also discussed: Kevin's own research on engineering wild animal species. Are the risks worth the benefits?
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Rationally Speaking #222 - Spencer Greenberg and Seth Cottrell on "Ask a Mathematician, Ask a Physicist"
Rationally Speaking #221 - Rob Reich on "Is philanthropy bad for democracy?"
Rationally Speaking #220 - Peter Eckersley on "Tough choices on privacy and artificial intelligence"
Rationally Speaking #219 - Jason Collins on "A skeptical take on behavioral economics"
Rationally Speaking #218 - Chris Auld on "Good and bad critiques of economics"
Rationally Speaking #217 - Aviv Ovadya on "The problem of false, biased, and artificial news"
Rationally Speaking #216 - Diana Fleischman on "Being a transhumanist evolutionary psychologist"
Rationally Speaking #215 - Anders Sandberg on "Thinking about the long-term future of humanity"
Rationally Speaking #214 - Anthony Aguirre on "Predicting the future of science and tech, with Metaculus"
Rationally Speaking #213 - Dean Simonton on "The causes of scientific and artistic genius"
Rationally Speaking #212 - Ed Boyden on "How to invent game-changing technologies"
Rationally Speaking #211 - Sabine Hossenfelder on "The case against beauty in physics"
Rationally Speaking #210 - Stuart Ritchie on "Conceptual objections to IQ testing"
Rationally Speaking #209 - Christopher Chabris on "Collective intelligence & the ethics of A/B tests"
Rationally Speaking #208 - Annie Duke on "Thinking in bets"
Rationally Speaking #207 - Alison Gopnik on "The wrong way to think about parenting, plus the downsides of modernity"
Rationally Speaking #206 - Kal Turnbull on "Change My View"
Rationally Speaking #205 - Michael Webb on "Are ideas getting harder to find?"
Rationally Speaking #204 - Simine Vazire on "Reforming psychology, and self-awareness"
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