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Time To Start Panicking About AI?
Watch now | In this episode, Henry and I finally do something we probably should have done in the first episode: introduce ourselves.
 • Dan Williams
1:08:25
How AI Will Reshape Public Opinion
Social media democratised public opinion, shifting influence away from elites and experts to ordinary people. LLMs will partly reverse this trend. They…
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AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth)
Watch now | What is it like to be a ChatGPT?
 • Dan Williams
1:34:12
What Kind Of Apes Are We?
This is a guest post by David Pinsof, who writes the excellent ‘Everything is Bullshit’ Substack.
 • David Pinsof
Why Have Academics Failed To Study Social Justice Ideology?
This is a guest post by Thomas Prosser (who writes at The Path Not Taken) and Edmund King (who writes at Paroxysms) about their very interesting new…
 • Thomas Prosser and Edmund King
We Are Confused, Maladapted Apes Who Need Enlightenment
With Homo sapiens, Darwinian evolution produced a new kind of animal: a species that builds worlds it struggles to understand.
 • Dan Williams
AI Sessions #8: Misinformation, Social Media, and Deepfakes (with Sacha Altay)
Watch now | Henry and I chat with Dr Sacha Altay about:
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1:23:24
Conspicuous Cognition
Conspicuous Cognition
Writer. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosophy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.
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