Do you see other podcasts filling the long-form, serious/in-depth, EA-adjacent/aligned niche in areas other than AI? E.g., GiveWell has a podcast, but I’m not sure it’s the same sort of thing. There’s also Hear This Idea, often Clearer Thinking or Dwarkesh Patel cover relevant stuff.
(Aside, was thinking of potentially trying to do a podcast involving researchers and research evaluators linked to The Unjournal; if I thought it could fill a gap and we could do it well, which I’m not sure of.)
No, I really don’t. Sometimes you see things in the same territory on Dwarkesh (which is very AI-focused) or Econtalk (which is shorter and less and less interesting to me lately). Rationally Speaking was wonderful but appears to be done. Hear This Idea is intermittent and often more narrowly focused. You get similar guests on podcasts like Jolly Swagman but the discussion is often at too low of a level, with worse questions asked. I have little hope of finding episodes like those with Hannah Ritchie, Christopher Brown,Andy Weber, or Glen Weyl anywhere else anytime soon. It’s actually a big loss in my life and (IMO) leaving many future potential EAs and AI people on the table.
Hi Matt. Since you mentioned “vaccines”, you may be interested in the podcast Hard Drugs.
Hard Drugs is a show by Saloni Dattani and Jacob Trefethen about medical innovation: how to speed it up, how to scale it up, and how to make sure lifesaving tools reach the people who need them the most. It is brought to you by Works in Progress and Open Philanthropy. Listen on your favorite podcast app or subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Do you see other podcasts filling the long-form, serious/in-depth, EA-adjacent/aligned niche in areas other than AI? E.g., GiveWell has a podcast, but I’m not sure it’s the same sort of thing. There’s also Hear This Idea, often Clearer Thinking or Dwarkesh Patel cover relevant stuff.
(Aside, was thinking of potentially trying to do a podcast involving researchers and research evaluators linked to The Unjournal; if I thought it could fill a gap and we could do it well, which I’m not sure of.)
No, I really don’t. Sometimes you see things in the same territory on Dwarkesh (which is very AI-focused) or Econtalk (which is shorter and less and less interesting to me lately). Rationally Speaking was wonderful but appears to be done. Hear This Idea is intermittent and often more narrowly focused. You get similar guests on podcasts like Jolly Swagman but the discussion is often at too low of a level, with worse questions asked. I have little hope of finding episodes like those with Hannah Ritchie, Christopher Brown, Andy Weber, or Glen Weyl anywhere else anytime soon. It’s actually a big loss in my life and (IMO) leaving many future potential EAs and AI people on the table.
Hi Matt. Since you mentioned “vaccines”, you may be interested in the podcast Hard Drugs.
Here’s some suggestions from 6 minutes of ChatGPT thinking. (Not all are relevant, e.g., I don’t think “Probable Causation” is a good fit here.)