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The Precipice
Toby Ord
“I think it's just like absolutely necessary as a read”
“one is the precipice by my colleague Toby Ord who I co-founded giving what we can with back in 2009 and it's on the topic of existential risks”— Will MacAskill
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The Secret of Our Success
Joseph Henrich
“they've had some of the biggest impact on just the background of my thinking over the last few years”
“that's Joe Heinrich's books secret of our success and the WEIRDest people in the world and Joe Henrich is a kind of quantitative anthropologist at Harvard”— Will MacAskill
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The WEIRDest People in the World
Joseph Henrich
“they've had some of the biggest impact on just the background of my thinking over the last few years”
“he has this other book the weirdest people in the world which is about the psychology in particular of weird people Western educated industrialized rich and Democratic”— Will MacAskill
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PSO-Rite
PSO-Rite (inferred)
“is the most expensive piece of plastic you'll ever buy but worth it”
“the device that was recommended to me a few times before I finally bit the bullet and got it was something called the PSO-Rite”— Tim Ferriss
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In Our Time
BBC (inferred)
“I would still strongly recommend them”
“for podcasts in our time hosted by Melvyn Bragg I believe discusses history philosophy science with leading academics”— Will MacAskill
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80,000 Hours Podcast
80,000 Hours (inferred)
“I would still strongly recommend them”
“and the 80,000 hours podcast would those be two you would still recommend yeah I would still strongly recommend them”— Will MacAskill
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Hear This Idea
Finn Moorhouse and Luca Righetti (inferred)
“I also particularly like”
“there's also another podcast he this idea by Finn Moorhouse and Luca Righetti I also particularly like”— Will MacAskill
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Rationally Speaking
Julia Galef (inferred)
“as well is like very good”
“rationally speaking by Julia Galef as well is like very good”— Will MacAskill
The guest's own work
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What We Owe the Future
Will MacAskill
“his new book is what we owe the future It Is blurbed by several guests of this podcast including neuroscientist and author Sam Harris”— Tim Ferriss
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky as a book that was important to you and I would like know why that is the case so that book is actually what got me into philosophy”— Will MacAskill
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Practical Ethics
Peter Singer
“I know we talked already about practical ethics by Peter Singer and then Super intelligence by Nick Bostrom last time”— Tim Ferriss
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Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
“I know we talked already about practical ethics by Peter Singer and then Super intelligence by Nick Bostrom last time”— Tim Ferriss
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BOSU ball
BOSU (inferred)
“so I developed my own routine which involves standing on a bosu ball so it's all on a bosu ball”— Will MacAskill
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Children of Men
“Here's a thought experiment there's this film Children of Men and in it people just unable to reproduce and so it's not that anyone dies”— Will MacAskill
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DALL-E
OpenAI (inferred)
“for listeners who don't know it's a fairly recent kind of AI system and you can tell it to produce a certain image using text”— Will MacAskill
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