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The Most Important Decision For Animals in American History
The factory farms are trying to keep pigs in cages so they don't have to feed them as much. It's up to us to stop them.
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Jun 3
Academics Must Wake Up on AI (with Alexander Kustov)
Is AI already better at many research tasks than humans? And if so, is this a reflection of how good AI is, or how bad much existing research is?
Jun 2
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Dan Williams
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Alexander Kustov
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Henry Shevlin
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1:09:06
May 2026
In Europe, There Is No Simple Immigration-Crime Story
Here are some statements that you might have heard at different times and in different venues concerning immigrants and crime in Europe:
May 28
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Tibor Rutar
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Are We Building Conscious AI Servants?
Was Richard Dawkins right to attribute consciousness to Claude? Can we turn to consciousness "experts" to settle such questions? Is it ethical to design…
May 21
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Dan Williams
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Henry Shevlin
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1:18:58
"Speaking Truth to Power" Is Bad Epistemology
If intellectuals want to hold power accountable, they should focus less on power and more on truth.
May 17
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Dan Williams
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Aliens, Superintelligence, and the Future of Science (with David Kipping)
What the search for alien life can teach us about AI — and vice versa
May 4
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Dan Williams
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Henry Shevlin
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1:21:50
April 2026
How Brexit Created Britain’s New Political Tribes
This is a guest post by James Tilley, a Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, about his excellent new book with Sara Hobolt, Tribal…
Apr 24
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Should We Care About AI Welfare? (with Robert Long)
We spend a lot of time worrying about what AI might do to us. What about what we might be doing to it?
Apr 18
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Dan Williams
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Henry Shevlin
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Robert Long
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1:28:36
On Becoming Less Left-Wing (Part 3)
The reality of progress, the fragility of civilisation, the left’s role in making the world both better and worse, the case for capitalism, and how to…
Apr 2
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Dan Williams
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March 2026
Wishful Thinking Is A Myth
How social games, not comforting falsehoods, distort what we believe.
Mar 16
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Dan Williams
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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.
Mar 10
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Dan Williams
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1:08:18
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…
Mar 3
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Dan Williams
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