A quick plug for my recent podcast appearance

On Conspicuous Cognition, thanks Dan and Henry!

I joined Dan Williams and Henry Shevlin on their new podcast Conspicuous Cognition a few days ago. I’ve been a big fan of their work for a while so it was a high honor to be the first guest. Dan’s focus on popular misconceptions about misinformation and elite opinion especially is filling what I think is a pretty vital niche, providing thoughtful critiques of elite narratives about misinformation, social media, and democracy while still strongly deferring to actual scientific, sociological, and economic authorities, and not at all falling into alternative media conspiracies. I very strongly recommend his blog (also called Conspicuous Cognition). This piece by him is a great place to start. Henry and I have a lot of fun conversations in public on Twitter. He has a really cool day job focusing on AI and the philosophy of mind at Cambridge and I have high hopes for where the podcast goes, the first two episodes before this were really fun.

All this to say I was really pumped to be their first guest, and for this to be my first long podcast where I get to talk a lot about AI and the environment, and it lived up to expectations! Dan and Henry were excellent hosts and it was clear from the get-go that they’d put a lot of work into preparing questions and thinking about the structure of the conversation. I got to talk a lot about the many rabbit holes I’ve gone down and get all my key ideas out in a single pretty accessible episode. I’ve been meaning to do more audio/video presentation of my basic arguments, and this episode will likely be the single best video intro to what I’m doing for a while. It’s a much better intro to the arguments for people who prefer audio to 25k word Substack posts. Here’s the YouTube link:

You can also find the episode on Spotify and Dan’s Substack.