Hardcore History by Dan Carlin. Just listened to my first episode (about the development of nuclear weapons and the Cold War) which was brilliant. Each episode is about 5hrs long! Initially I found this off putting but in the end it really worked and it was more like a short history book. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dan-carlins-hardcore-history/id173001861
Marc Thompson's series about the HIV/AIDS crisis, "We Were Always Here", is very good.Interview with him about it: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/01/we-were-always-here-podcast-hiv-marc-thompson/
A couple of weeks ago my podcast feed suddenly filled up with lots of conversations with 'philosopher of the moment' Will Macaskill, primarily promoting and discussing his new book 'What We Owe the Future'. Surprisingly varied ground covered in the different conversations. He was pressed pretty hard by both Tyler Cowen (conversations with Tyler) and Sean Carol (Mindscape) so was interesting to hear his defence of long termism and effective altruism more generally in those. Personally, I think I enjoyed the 80k hours one the most.
Quote from: Steve R on September 07, 2022, 11:33:53 pmA couple of weeks ago my podcast feed suddenly filled up with lots of conversations with 'philosopher of the moment' Will Macaskill, primarily promoting and discussing his new book 'What We Owe the Future'. Surprisingly varied ground covered in the different conversations. He was pressed pretty hard by both Tyler Cowen (conversations with Tyler) and Sean Carol (Mindscape) so was interesting to hear his defence of long termism and effective altruism more generally in those. Personally, I think I enjoyed the 80k hours one the most.He was also on Lex Fridman recently. Both interesting characters. Not listened much to Lex yet, but quite like the deep dive, long form format.I felt Macaskill's viewpoint, while laudable - was slightly too "human-centric" for my liking, as if fixing the ills of inequality is going to fix the biggest of our looming issues. I'm not against what he says, whatsoever, I just think the aims might be wrong - with the environment, biodiversity and general long term health of the planet being higher priorities for me than saving the maximum number of lives....That said....if you take his argument to the extreme, and invoke the paperclip theory....humanity is going to fuck itself quick sharp while striving for more technological advancement. Bravo humans!