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Re-release: The Psychology of the End
Episode first aired in Feb 2018 which deals with cognitive biases surrounding how we conceive of the end-times. Sadly relevant today. Why are we so fascinated with the end of the ...
Phil Torres (@xriskology) I: Existential Risks in the time of COVID-19
Well, the manifestation of a global catastrophic risk means that it's time for us to bring back the very first guest on this show, from back in 2017. Phil Torres is a scholar of ex...
Kit Yates on the Maths of Life and Death
This week, we have a guest on the show - Kit Yates, who is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at th...
Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future, and How to See Past It - with Gemma Milne
I'm excited today to say that we have a guest on the show - Gemma Milne, who has written a book, Smoke and Mirrors, about how technological hype distorts the future. I really enjoy...
Coronavirus Updates (May, part I): Interview with a vaccine trial participant, risk factors, "herd immunity" thresholds and serology.
For the masochists who apparently can't get enough content about the coronavirus: => An interview with my friend who participated in the vaccine trials => Some discussion of the r...
Technology, Inequality, and Catastrophic Risks: Solutions?
N/B: This series of episodes was written before the coronavirus pandemic. I've decided the best thing to do is to present them as was and maybe have another episode reflecting on w...
BONUS: Walter Schiedel's Coronavirus Op-Ed
Given that we are in the midst of a series on technology, inequality, and global catastrophic risks inspired by Walter Scheidel's book on these subjects, and he's just written an o...
Coronavirus Updates - The Vaccine
In this, the last of our short series of coronavirus updates, I will be telling you everything I've found out about the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine - when we can expect it to be...
Coronavirus Updates: Exit Strategy (For A Pandemic)
In the latest coronavirus episode, we discuss research that has been done into the viable exit strategies from lockdown, including the idea of a contact-tracing app, and discuss so...
Coronavirus Updates: Modelling, Uncertainties, and Antivirals
Some further updates in the latest therapy session/ramble: - Discussion of the various models that have been used to try to predict the impact of the coronavirus pandemic - Discus...
Coronavirus Updates: Estimating R0, Serology, and Bayes' Theorem
The first of a few quick episodes where I continue going into coronavirus therapy by ranting on to you about all of the things I've learned about the current epidemic... with refer...
Technology, Inequality, and Catastrophic Risks III: How technology can fuel inequality
N/B: This series of episodes was written before the coronavirus pandemic. I've decided the best thing to do is to present them as was and maybe have another episode reflecting on w...
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