His conversation with Tyler Cowen skips talking points which are more familiar to EAs, I’m finding that interesting
I thought his conversation with Ezra was interesting too—Ezra both has good criticisms but also managed to frame Will’s argument’s really succinctly (e.g. I loved the title of the podcast “Three sentences that could change the world” or something)
Sure, the title of the Ezra ep was cool. But I actually didn’t think it was that good of an ep—I felt like when Ezra asked ‘tough’ questions, Will didn’t really engage with them in a direct enough way, and as a result a lot of my non-EA friends have told me that they felt Will didn’t have good responses to the questions. I don’t think it was that useful an ep to listen to as an EA—its mostly stuff in the book and things you’d likely have heard from Will or others in the community before.
Yeah I’ve only listened to the Tyler Cowen one but I thought it was great. Tyler kept objecting to utilitarianism using various thought experiments and arguments, and Will had some pretty interesting responses.
His conversation with Tyler Cowen skips talking points which are more familiar to EAs, I’m finding that interesting
I thought his conversation with Ezra was interesting too—Ezra both has good criticisms but also managed to frame Will’s argument’s really succinctly (e.g. I loved the title of the podcast “Three sentences that could change the world” or something)
Sure, the title of the Ezra ep was cool. But I actually didn’t think it was that good of an ep—I felt like when Ezra asked ‘tough’ questions, Will didn’t really engage with them in a direct enough way, and as a result a lot of my non-EA friends have told me that they felt Will didn’t have good responses to the questions. I don’t think it was that useful an ep to listen to as an EA—its mostly stuff in the book and things you’d likely have heard from Will or others in the community before.
Yeah I’ve only listened to the Tyler Cowen one but I thought it was great. Tyler kept objecting to utilitarianism using various thought experiments and arguments, and Will had some pretty interesting responses.