Apr 25, 2024
In this episode, I give you updates from my trip with friends to see the 2024 total solar eclipse. Questions answered include:
- Why are we bothering to go see it?
- How many of us will fail to make it to the eclipse?
- Does it actually get darker during a total solar eclipse, or is that just an optical illusion?
- What...
Nov 20, 2023
In this episode, I speak with Aaron Silverbook about the bacteria that cause cavities, and how different bacteria can prevent them: specifically, a type of bacterium that you can buy at luminaprobiotic.com. This podcast episode has not been approved by the FDA. Specific topics we talk about include:
Sep 12, 2023
In this episode, I talk to Holly Elmore about her advocacy around AI Pause - encouraging governments to pause the development of more and more powerful AI. Topics we discuss include:
Apr 28, 2023
In this episode, Divia Eden and Ronny Fernandez talk about the (strong) orthogonality thesis - that arbitrarily smart intelligences can be paired with arbitrary goals, without additional complication beyond that of specifying the goal - with light prompting from me. Topics they touch on include:
Apr 15, 2023
In this episode I chat with Jeffrey Heninger about his religious beliefs and practices as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sometimes colloquially referred to as "the Mormon church" or "the LDS church". Topics we talk about include: