Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to sol
"I think stories are the way we shift the Overton window — so widen the range of things that are acc
"I think one of the reasons I took [shutting down my charity] so hard is because entrepreneurship is
"It does open you up to a lot of beautiful vistas of human experience. And as somebody who is intere
"In that famous example of the dress, half of the people in the world saw [blue and black], half saw
Today we're re-releasing an audio version of one of Rob Wiblin's articles: If you care about social
"You have a tank split in two parts: if the fish gets in the compartment with a red circle, it will
In today’s episode, Rob Wiblin speaks with FiveThirtyEight election forecaster and author Nate Silve
"In the human case, it would be mistaken to give a kind of hour-by-hour accounting. You know, 'I had
In this episode from our second show, 80k After Hours, Luisa Rodriguez and Keiran Harris chat about
"For every far-out idea that turns out to be true, there were probably hundreds that were simply cra
"Perception is quite difficult with cameras: even if you have a stereo camera, you still can’t reall
"It’s very hard to find examples where people say, 'I’m starting from this point. I’m starting from
"I do think that there is a really significant sentiment among parts of the opposition that it’s not
"This is a group of animals I think people are particularly unfamiliar with. They are especially poo
The three biggest AI companies — Anthropic, OpenAI, and DeepMind — have now all released policies de
"In the 1980s, it was still apparently common to perform surgery on newborn babies without anaesthet
"Computational systems have literally millions of physical and conceptual components, and around 98%
"If you’re a power that is an island and that goes by sea, then you’re more likely to do things like
"You don’t necessarily need world-leading compute to create highly risky AI systems. The biggest bio
"Ring one: total annihilation; no cellular life remains. Ring two, another three-mile diameter out:
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