Book · recommended on 3 episodes
The Precipice
Toby Ord ISBN 9781664488915
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Toby Ord ISBN 9781664488915
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This book by Toby Ord has come up 3 times across 3 different shows: Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 3 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Will MacAskill, guest, host. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-02-10 and the most recent from 2022-08-02. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“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
The guest here is Will MacAskill: Associate professor of philosophy at Oxford, co-founder of Giving What We Can, the Centre for Effective Altruism and 80,000 Hours, and author of 'What We Owe the Future'. Philosopher Will MacAskill explains longtermism, existential risks from AI, pandemics and war, and why the vast future is worth protecting.
“ever since really the first nuclear test when they uh tony orb has a great book about this called the precipice where the precipice for humanity”— guest
The guest here is Chris Mason: Professor of genomics, physiology and biophysics at Cornell who runs molecular experiments on astronauts in space, including NASA's famous twin study. Author of 'The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds.'. A Cornell geneticist makes the case that humanity has a duty to engineer life itself to survive and spread across the cosmos.
“Toby Ord's The Precipice, which is my favorite book on existential risk, unbelievable. And there's this big risk at the bottom that's called unknown unknowns.”— host
The guest here is Coleman Hughes: Writer, podcaster (Conversations with Coleman), public intellectual and rapper who released a track called Blasphemy. Coleman Hughes defends Joe Rogan against censorship campaigns and argues free speech, comedy, and open discourse are fragile cultural values worth protecting.
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