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One Argument to Destroy All Philosophical Positions | Tad Brennan on Ancient Skepticism

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Stoicism | Tad Brennan on Stoic Determinism

Human vs. Machine Consciousness | Imperial’s Murray Shanahan

The AI Use-Case No One is Talking About | Reid Hoffman

How to NOT be Scapegoated | René Girard's Mimetic Theory

How Mimetic Desire Actually Works

Why Stoicism Doesn’t Work Without God | Tad Brennan on Stoic Ethics

Girard's Major Blindspot | Limitations of Mimetic Theory

The Slave Who Was Free | Berkeley's AA Long on Epictetus

Girard Predicted US-China Trade War, What Comes Next is Terrifying

Lessons from the Two World Wars | Martha Nussbaum on Britten’s War Requiem

Stoics vs. Skeptics vs. Epicureans | AA Long on Hellenistic Philosophy

US vs. China's Education Systems

Democracy is Anarchy | Berkeley’s GRF Ferrari on Plato's Republic

Don’t Believe AI Hype, This is Where it’s Actually Headed | Oxford’s Michael Wooldridge | AI History

Focus on These AGI-Proof Areas | Nick Bostrom

This podcast interviews Nick Bostrom about his book "Deep Utopia," exploring how artificial intelligence will change human activities and the potential for a future where much human work and leisure become obsolete. The discussion analyzes AI's impact on learning, relationships, and the balance of capital and labor, s...

How America Accidentally Jumpstarted China's Space Program

AI’s New World Order: US-China, War, Job Loss | Tyler Cowen

Plato’s Warning Against Friends-with-Benefits | GRF Ferrari on the Phaedrus

This podcast interviews Giovanni Ferrari, a Plato scholar, to explore Plato's views on love and sex, particularly as presented in Phaedrus. The discussion analyzes contrasting arguments for and against passionate love versus casual sex, using the metaphor of a charioteer (reason) and two horses (honor and appetite) to...

Making Sense of Christianity's Violent Past | Yale’s Carlos Eire