Hear This Idea

Hear This Idea is a podcast showcasing new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. Each episode has an accompanying write-up at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes.

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Every guest on Hear This Idea

84 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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Matt Clancy

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Tamay Besiroglu
#79 – Tamay Besiroglu on Explosive Growth from AI · Sep 2024

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Kent Berridge
#5 – Kent Berridge on Dopamine, Addiction and Neuroscience · Feb 2020

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Ajay Karpur
#49 – Ajay Karpur on Metagenomic Sequencing · Jun 2022

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Armond Cohen
#31 – Armond Cohen on Climate Change and the Clean Air Task Force · Jun 2021

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Carolina Alves
#14 – Carolina Alves on Heterodox Economics, Diversity in Academia, and the Global South · Jul 2020

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Christoph Winter
#38 – Christoph Winter on the Legal Priorities Project · Oct 2021

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Cynthia Schuck
#81 – Cynthia Schuck on Quantifying Animal Welfare · Nov 2024

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Damon Binder
Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics · Jan 2023

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David Coman-Hidy
Bonus: 'How I Learned To Love Shrimp' & David Coman-Hidy · Nov 2023

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Dewi Erwan
#56 – Dewi Erwan on BlueDot Impact and Scaling High-Impact Organisations · Dec 2022

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Edouard Mathieu
#54 – Edouard Mathieu on Our World in Data · Oct 2022

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Eve McCormick
#11 – Eve McCormick on Effective Altruism · Jun 2020

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George Rosenfeld
#8 – George Rosenfeld on Effective Giving and Building a Charitable Movement · Apr 2020

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Greg Nemet
#57 – Greg Nemet on Technological Change and How Solar Became Cheap · Dec 2022

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Guive Assadi
#67 – Guive Assadi on Whether Humanity Will Choose Its Future · Jul 2023

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Jacob Trefethen
#78 – Jacob Trefethen on Global Health R&D · Sep 2024

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Jaime Sevilla
#60 – Jaime Sevilla on Trends in Machine Learning · 2 episodes

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Janvi Ahuja

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Jessie Munton
#15 – Jessie Munton on Prejudice, Perception, and Search Engines · Aug 2020

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Jon Y
#69 – Jon Y (Asianometry) on Problems And Progress in Semiconductor Manufacturing · Aug 2023

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Jonas Sandbrink

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Joshua Monrad

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Julia Shvets
#25 – Julia Shvets on Overconfidence, Rank Incentives, and Lab vs Field Experiments · Mar 2021

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Luke Freeman
#18 – Luke Freeman on Giving What We Can and Community Building · Nov 2020

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Manja Gärtner

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Marcus Daniell
#23 – Marcus Daniell on High Impact Athletes, EA Outreach, and the Point of Sport · Feb 2021

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Matt Ives
#32 – Matt Ives on Solar Power and Experience Curves · Jun 2021

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Max Smeets
#83 – Max Smeets on Barriers To Cyberweapons · Mar 2025

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Michael Aird
#64 – Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk · 2 episodes

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Michelle Lavery
#73 – Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare · Nov 2023

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Mike Hinge
#40 – Mike Hinge on Feeding Everyone in a Disaster · Jan 2022

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SJ Beard
#16 – SJ Beard on Parfit, Climate Change, and Existential Risk · Sep 2020

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Sam Hilton
#44 – Sam Hilton on Charity Entrepreneurship, Exploratory Altruism, and Longtermist Policy · Mar 2022

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Sanjay Joshi
#12 – Sanjay Joshi on Charity Evaluation and Nonprofit Entrepreneurship · Jul 2020

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Sebastian Joy
#22 – Sebastian Joy on ProVeg, Movement Building, and Corporate Engagement · Jan 2021

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Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley
#74 – Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley on Barriers to Bioweapons · Dec 2023

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Spencer Weart
#48 – Spencer Weart on the Discovery of Global Warming · Jun 2022

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Sriya Iyer
#17 – Sriya Iyer on the Economics of Religion · Nov 2020

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Tads Ciecierski-Holmes
#4 – Tads Ciecierski-Holmes on Gym Membership and Behavioural Economics · Jan 2020

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Recent episodes

90 episodes from the feed, newest first.

#84 – Dean Spears on the Case for People
with Dean Spears

Nov 2025
#83 – Max Smeets on Barriers To Cyberweapons
with Max Smeets

Mar 2025
#82 – Tom Kalil on Institutions for Innovation (with Matt Clancy)
with Tom Kalil

Dec 2024
#81 – Cynthia Schuck on Quantifying Animal Welfare
with Cynthia Schuck

Nov 2024
#80 – Dan Williams on How Persuasion Works
with Dan Williams

Oct 2024
#79 – Tamay Besiroglu on Explosive Growth from AI
with Tamay Besiroglu

Sep 2024
#78 – Jacob Trefethen on Global Health R&D
with Jacob Trefethen

Sep 2024
#77 – Elizabeth Seger on Open Sourcing AI
with Elizabeth Seger

Jul 2024
#76 – Joe Carlsmith on Scheming AI
with Joe Carlsmith

Mar 2024
#75 – Eric Schwitzgebel on Digital Consciousness and the Weirdness of the World
with Eric Schwitzgebel

Feb 2024
#74 – Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley on Barriers to Bioweapons
with Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley

Dec 2023
Bonus: 'How I Learned To Love Shrimp' & David Coman-Hidy
with David Coman-Hidy

Nov 2023
#73 – Michelle Lavery on the Science of Animal Welfare
with Michelle Lavery

Nov 2023
#72 – Richard Bruns on Indoor Air Quality
with Richard Bruns

Nov 2023
#71 – Saloni Dattani on Malaria Vaccines and Missing Data in Global Health
with Saloni Dattani

Oct 2023
#70 – Liv Boeree on Healthy vs Unhealthy Competition
with Liv Boeree

Sep 2023
#69 – Jon Y (Asianometry) on Problems And Progress in Semiconductor Manufacturing
with Jon Y

Aug 2023
#68 – Steven Teles on what the Conservative Legal Movement Teaches about Policy Advocacy
with Steven Teles

Aug 2023
#67 – Guive Assadi on Whether Humanity Will Choose Its Future
with Guive Assadi

Jul 2023
#66 – Michael Cohen on Input Tampering in Advanced RL Agents
Jun 2023
#65 – Katja Grace on Slowing Down AI and Whether the X-Risk Case Holds Up
with Katja Grace

Jun 2023
#64 – Michael Aird on Strategies for Reducing AI Existential Risk
with Michael Aird

Jun 2023
#63 – Ben Garfinkel on AI Governance
with Ben Garfinkel

May 2023
#62 – Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering, Value Diversity, and Grand Futures
with Anders Sandberg

Apr 2023
#61 – Rory Stewart on GiveDirectly and Massively Scaling Cash Transfers
with Rory Stewart

Apr 2023