How Small Actions Rewrite Identity (with Eric Zimmer)
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What changes when we stop imagining transformation as a single breakthrough and start seeing it as thousands of small, low-resistance actions? How do we know whether a small action is genuinely sustainable or merely another form of self-improvement theater? What…
How To Pursue Goals without Striving (with Stephen Zerfas)
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Why can the same meditation technique produce emotional openness in one person and dissociation in another? How can meditators tell whether they are cultivating equanimity or merely numbing themselves? Why is meditation unusually difficult to teach compared with…
Why housing costs so much and what can be done about it (with Alex Armlovich)
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How large is the housing crisis, and why does it impose trillions of dollars in economic costs? Why has housing become especially unaffordable across English speaking countries and an expanding number of American cities? What does the gap between the cost of bui…
The good advice you least want (with Cate Hall)
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Why do people gravitate toward self-help that reinforces the strategies they already use well? How can we identify the default lens through which we interpret nearly every situation? What changes when we recognize that our internal equilibrium may be less depend…
Our relationship to chatbots (with Claire Boine)
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What makes an attachment to AI meaningfully different from an attachment to a human, animal, or fictional character? If chatbot relationships are built around validation and adaptation, can they ever provide the friction and otherness that make human relationshi…
Can We End Factory Farming Without Giving Up Meat? (with Bruce Friedrich)
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Why is producing meat so inefficient? How does animal agriculture contribute to hunger and malnutrition? How large are the environmental costs of meat production? How does industrial animal agriculture increase the risk of antibiotic resistance and future pandem…
Neurodiversity, Autism, Awe, and Religious Experience (with Jonathan Machnee)
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What does “neurodivergent” actually mean, and has the term become too broad to be useful? Why might people grouped under the same neurodivergent umbrella have conflicting needs? Is autism really a single spectrum, or would it make more sense to speak of multiple…
Why we procrastinate, and what actually helps (with Itamar Shatz)
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What exactly is procrastination, and how is it different from simply deciding to postpone something? Why is chronic procrastination so common, and why can it affect highly conscientious and productive people just as much as anyone else? Are there really differen…
The Race to Replace Us With AI (with Garrison Lovely)
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Could AI simultaneously be an extraordinarily powerful technology and an economic bubble, and why would those possibilities not contradict each other? What does the history of the internet bubble suggest about the comforting idea that a financial crash would mak…
In 2023 Ajeya Cotra already knew what was coming (classic episode)
We're rereleasing some of older episodes that seem more relevant than ever with new rogue AI incidents now seemingly announced every day. Ajeya was one of three independent investigators into the Hugging Face attacks, but she had already seen how we would go on to accidentally train models to cheat…
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