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In-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human civilization. Covering causes and solutions for contemporary existential risks like AI, pandemics, disinformation and totalitarianism. Join us for an exciting intellectual journey to discover the problems facing the world and what we can do to stop them.
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The 20th century was a period of violent upheaval characterized by two world wars and the Great Depresssion. These tragedies were the result of bad political and economic ideas. Many countries abandoned democratic and free market principles in favor of totalitarian control and militaristic expansion. Sadly, we see a regression to this type of thinking. In today's conversation, Peter Boettke will speak on why the ghosts of the past have returned. We will discuss current events and their ...
Send us Fan Mail What are the new Four Horseman of the Apocalypse? Climate change? Pandemics? War? Cyberattack? Seth Baum and I discuss whether we should worry about any of these particular risk factors in isolation or combination. We discuss the notion of a polycrisis and how that makes thinking about risk management difficult. We find that some of the dangers we face now are exactly those that may have brought about the Bronze Age collapse over 3,000 years ago. Are we any better prepared to...
Send us Fan Mail Is it permissible to teach the ten commandments in public school? For religious exemptions to vaccination? Chris Line is Legal Counsel at the Freedom From Religion Foundation. In this episode, we discuss the issues surrounding separation of church and state. This constitutional protection is being violated more frequently now in the U.S. In a stimulating discussion we touch on the dangers of theocratic governments, the difference between reason and faith, and historical trend...
Send us Fan Mail In this episode I interview Ivan Eland, defense analyst and writer, who is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute. We talk about the current and future state of U.S. military foreign policy in the post Cold War era. We address a number of questions in this wide-ranging discusion. What threats do China and Russia pose to world peace? How can we bring the bloated defense budget under control? Will the U.S. fall victim to the Thucydides Trap? What type of foreign policy st...
Send us Fan Mail If you want an AI to "play nice", you need to give it values to ensure it is acting beneficially toward humans. To solve this alignment problem we need to know what values we are talking about. Today I describe a five-level classification system which helps us to understand all values and how they relate to one another. These include survival, cognition, those related to individuality and sociality, and a concern for the wider environment. We then look at how to apply these t...
Send us Fan Mail There is a lot of talk about AI alignment, which is getting machines to act in our best interests. But how do we go about doing this? The philosophical secret to this conundrum is values. But how do we determine what human values are? This problem needs to be solved before we program computers to do this or that on our behalf. In this two-part series, I discuss what values are and look at evidence on human values coming from evolutionary theory, literature reviews and survey ...
Send us Fan Mail Can a machine become conscious? Could it feel pain and pleasure, be happy or sad? In this episode we address the question of whether the AI systems we are building now are or could achieve such consciousness. If they can the ramifications are enormous. Join me in this wide-ranging interview with Calum Chace to discuss this issue. Calum is a best-selling author, speaker, and founder of the AI safety company Conscium. We cover whether being alive, having a body, or growing up i...
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we examine ways to stop incivility. We show that attempts to control bad behavior have always been around and can be categorized in terms of social and individual forms. The social classification looks at organizations like the family and church and how they have regulated behavior. The individual approach looks at how a single person can exert self-control, in some cases in conjunction with outside assistance. Cultivating an attitude of empathy allows us to a...
In-depth lectures and interviews on issues affecting the continued survival of human civilization. Covering causes and solutions for contemporary existential risks like AI, pandemics, disinformation and totalitarianism. Join us for an exciting intellectual journey to discover the problems facing the world and what we can do to stop them.
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