My favorite podcasts
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This list was compiled purely based on my personal enjoyment. Topics correlate strongly with current interests: epistemology, rationality, artificial intelligence, consciousness, sexuality, neuroscience, morality, and (the future of our) civilization.
Might occasionally update (last 2020-07-23).
Rationally Speaking with Julia Galef
- Sean Carroll on “Poetic Naturalism”
- Chris Blattman on “Do sweatshops reduce poverty?”
- Tim Urban on “Trying to live well, as semi-rational animals”
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape
- Alice Dreger on “Sexuality, Truth, and Justice”
- David Poeppel on “Thought, Language and How to Understand the Brain”
- Liv Boeree on “Poker, Aliens and Thinking in Probabilities”
- Carl Zimmer on Heredity, DNA and Editing Genes
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
- Dan Ariely on “Irrationality, Bad Decisions and the Truth About Lies”
- Annie Duke on “Getting Better by Being Wrong”
- Barbara Coloroso on “The Kids Are Worth It” (This is disguised as parenting advice but it really is a crash course in how to be awesome in any type of human interaction.)
You Are Not So Smart with David McRaney
YANSS has a bunch of ads and interludes, which can be annoying but it’s often worth it for the content.
- Michael Wolfe and Todd Williams on “How our brains hide the evidence of belief change”
- Will Storr on “How we became self obsessed”
- Dean Burnett on “The neuroscience of joy, comfort, happiness, and bliss”
EconTalk with Russ Roberts
- Joshua Greene on “Moral Tribes, Moral Dilemmas, and Utilitarianism”
- Ran Abramitzky on “the Mystery of the Kibbutz”
- Jacob Stegenga on “Medical Nihilism”
The 80000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin
- Dr Spencer Greenberg on “the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions”
- Prof Tetlock on “why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how you can do it better”
- Prof Dafoe on “defusing the political & economic risks posed by existing AI capabilities”
Making Sense with Sam Harris
- David Krakauer on “Complexity and Stupidity”
- Thomas Metzinger on “The Nature of Consciousness”
- Geoffrey Miller on “Transformations of Mind”
Great episodes from podcasts I wouldn’t generally recommend
- On Art, Paradise Engineering and Existential Hope with Sam Barker and David Pearce (Future of Life Podcast)