Fin Moorhouse is a Research Scholar and assistant to Toby Ord at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute. He co-hosts the Hear This Idea podcast, which showcases new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism.
We discuss for-profit entrepreneurship for altruism, space governance, morality in the multiverse, podcasting, the long reflection, and the Effective Ideas & EA criticism blog prize.
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Episode website + Transcript here.
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Timestamps
(0:00:10) - Introduction
(0:02:45) - EA Prizes & Criticism
(0:09:47) - Longtermism
(0:12:52) - Improving Mental Models
(0:20:50) - EA & Profit vs Nonprofit Entrepreneurship
(0:30:46) - Backtesting EA
(0:35:54) - EA Billionares
(0:38:32) - EA Decisions & Many Worlds Interpretation
(0:50:46) - EA Talent Search
(0:52:38) - EA & Encouraging Youth
(0:59:17) - Long Reflection
(1:03:56) - Long Term Coordination
(1:21:06) - On Podcasting
(1:23:40) - Audiobooks Imitating Conversation
(1:27:04) - Underappreciated Podcasting Skills
(1:38:08) - Space Governance
(1:42:09) - Space Safety & 1st Principles
(1:46:44) - Von Neuman Probes
(1:50:12) - Space Race & First Strike
(1:51:45) - Space Colonization & AI
(1:56:36) - Building a Startup
(1:59:08) - What is EA Underrating?
(2:10:07) - EA Career Steps
(2:15:16) - Closing Remarks
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