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Discrimination is Costly. Is it Costly Enough?

Dec 28 2023

Progress, Literally

Dec 27 2023

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Moral? (with Paul Bloom)

Dec 25 2023

Who's the Greatest of Them All?

Dec 20 2023

An Extraordinary Introduction to the Birth of Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Haviv Rettig Gur)

Dec 18 2023

Niall Ferguson on Free Speech and Kissinger's Role in the Middle East

Dec 11 2023

Russ Roberts is Reinventing Himself (Again): The Pathless Path Interview

Dec 6 2023

Yossi Klein Halevi on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

Dec 4 2023

Tyler Cowen on the GOAT of Economics

Nov 27 2023

Andrew McAfee on the Geek Way

Nov 20 2023

Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman

Nov 13 2023

Zach Weinersmith on Space Settlement and A City on Mars

Nov 6 2023

Who's Driving the Future?

Nov 4 2023

Michael Easter on Excess, Moderation, and the Scarcity Brain

Oct 30 2023

Confabulatory and Comforting and Utterly Groovy

Oct 28 2023

When is Enough Enough?

Oct 27 2023

How Much Went to Your Brain?

Oct 25 2023

Robert Sapolsky on Determinism, Free Will, and Responsibility

Oct 23 2023

Join the Quiet Revolution: Civility

Oct 20 2023

Alexandra Hudson on the Soul of Civility

Oct 16 2023

Adam Mastroianni on Learning and Mostly Forgetting

Oct 9 2023

Thinking About the Economy of the Future

Oct 5 2023

Elie Hassenfeld on GiveWell

Oct 2 2023

Peter Attia on Lifespan, Healthspan, and Outlive

Sep 25 2023

The Agency to Act

Sep 22 2023

Michael Munger on How Adam Smith Solved the Trolley Problem

Sep 18 2023

Addressing Your Existential Angst

Sep 17 2023

Competition in Zoning Create More Housing?

Sep 15 2023

Anupam Bapu Jena on Random Acts of Medicine

Sep 11 2023

Difference = Discrimination?

Sep 8 2023

Roland Fryer on Race, Diversity, and Affirmative Action

Sep 4 2023

Augmenting Intelligence and Interviewing Adam Smith

Sep 3 2023

Don't Screen for Cancer

Sep 1 2023

Vinay Prasad on Cancer Screening

Aug 28 2023

Walter Russell Mead on Innovation, Religion, and the State of the World

Aug 21 2023

Adam Mastroianni on the Brain, the Ears, and How We Learn

Aug 14 2023

Zvi Mowshowitz on AI and the Dial of Progress

Aug 7 2023

Daron Acemoglu on Innovation and Shared Prosperity

Jul 31 2023

Erik Hoel on Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science

Jul 24 2023

Lydia Dugdale on the Lost Art of Dying

Jul 17 2023

Marc Andreessen on Why AI Will Save the World

Jul 10 2023

James Rebanks on the Shepherd's Life

Jul 3 2023

Jacob Howland on the Hidden Human Costs of AI

Jun 26 2023

Got Genes?

Jun 24 2023

Your Favorite Episodes of 2022

Jun 20 2023

Michael Munger on Obedience to the Unenforceable

Jun 19 2023

Trinkets of Frivolous Utility?

Jun 16 2023

Rebecca Struthers on Watches, Watchmaking, and the Hands of Time

Jun 12 2023

Sisyphean Hot Seats

Jun 8 2023

Les Snead on Risk, Decisions, and Football

Jun 5 2023

Managing Risk for Long-Term Success

Jun 1 2023

Luca Dellanna on Risk, Ruin, and Ergodicity

May 29 2023

Casey Mulligan on Vaccines, the Pandemic, and the FDA

May 22 2023

From the Printing Press to Cyrano de GPT

May 19 2023

Tyler Cowen on the Risks and Impact of Artificial Intelligence

May 15 2023

Why Would It Kill Us???

May 12 2023

Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI

May 8 2023

Patrick House and Itzhak Fried on the Brain's Mysteries

May 1 2023

More than intellectual golf?

Apr 29 2023

Michael Munger on the Perfect vs. the Good

Apr 24 2023

Dana Gioia on Poetry, Death and Mortality

Apr 17 2023

Daniel Gordis on Israel and Impossible Takes Longer

Apr 10 2023

Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI

Apr 3 2023

Asteroids, Advice, and AI

Mar 30 2023

Kevin Kelly on Advice, AI, and Technology

Mar 27 2023

Following the Science Right into the Oedipus Trap

Mar 24 2023

Megan McArdle on the Oedipus Trap

Mar 20 2023

Can You Catch Some Kennings?

Mar 16 2023

Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea Wolf

Mar 13 2023

Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State

Mar 6 2023

Do psychologists know anything?

Mar 2 2023

Paul Bloom on Psych, Psychology, and the Human Mind

Feb 27 2023

Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental Illness

Feb 20 2023

The Peril of Peers

Feb 17 2023

Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen

Feb 13 2023

Sam Harris on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Morality

Feb 6 2023

Vinay Prasad on Pharmaceuticals, the FDA, and the Death of Duty

Jan 30 2023

Freedom begins with a book.

Jan 26 2023

Dwayne Betts on Beauty, Prison, and Redaction

Jan 23 2023

To Return or Not to Return: It's Complicated

Jan 20 2023

Tiffany Jenkins on Plunder, Museums, and Marbles

Jan 16 2023

Ian Leslie on Being Human in the Age of AI

Jan 9 2023

The world is terrible. The world is much better. The world could be much better.

Jan 6 2023

Hannah Ritchie on Eating Local

Jan 2 2023