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I liked this one with 80k.
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Which of Will MacAskill’s many recent podcast episodes would you recommend to other engaged EAs?
1 min readAug 15, 2022
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I liked this one with 80k.
I'm going to post a Twitter thread about this tomorrow, with some selected extracts. The best three I've heard are:
I posted all three to The Valmy.
Here's the thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/peterhartree/status/1559568673920016384
I most enjoyed Tyler Cowen, but I thought that The Lunar Society was also worth a listen. The podcast also has a transcript on its website incase you prefer reading.
80k great as always! Though I wish, of all episodes, this one was longer
I liked the Tim Ferriss episode (scroll down for a long list of relevant links). There's a YouTube video version that segments the episode with chapter headings, allowing you to skip any parts that don't interest you.
Note that I’m happy for the answer to be “none” or “all of them.”
Just thinking that some are likely to be geared more towards a general audience with less of a background - thanks!
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.