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My third guest is Alexei Andreev In this 13-minute interview, we discuss: Alexei's record of donating to Existential Risk causes. The trade-offs of donating from a salary as opposed to waiting to donate from a big exit on a startup. The value of CfAR-style techniques for getting the job done; e.g. building good habit. Working with other LessWronger…
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My guest is Dr. Daniel Reeves of Beeminder, a web service that helps you stick to your goals. In this 11-minute discussion, Daniel talks about: How Beeminder works to help you stay focused on your goals, Working with other LessWrongers at the startup, The value, or lack thereof, in getting a PhD; his was in Algorithmic Game Theory, which he links t…
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My guest is Laurent Bossavit of Institut Agile, known on LessWrong.com as Morendil. His book on The Leprechauns of Software Engineering, mentioned in the podcast, shows some interesting cases of industry legend in software: "How folklore turns into fact and what to do about it." In this 29-minute interview, we discuss The Leprechauns book How CfAR-…
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Leading Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku with the latest on his fight against blasphemy charges in India, filed one year ago after he debunked a supposed miracle at a Catholic Church in Mumbai.Please sign the petition calling on the Indian Prime Minister to intervene in the case: http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/drop-blasphemy-charges-agains…
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In the March edition of the RA Podcast, Alom Shaha discusses Islam's problem with evolution, the new President of the BHA Jim Al-Khalili tells us why it's time for a more accommodating approach to religion, humanist chaplain Chris Stedman makes the case for inter-faith, and comedian Stewart Lee bemoans the lengths to which parents must go to get th…
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For the 22nd Advent Podcast singer-songwriter Philip Jeays very kindly provided us with the song he performed at the 2008 Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People shows, "Death Bed" (just in case your kids are around, be warned the song features some colourful language).Recorded in 2008. Additional music by Andrea Rocca.…
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Comedian Ed Byrne talks about hanging out with Cern physicists and how Brian Cox's Wonders of the Solar System has left him with an intense sense of planetary pride.Taken from the 20-track CD recording of Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People 2010, available for £12 from Gofasterstripe.comDe către RationalistUK
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Carter USM frontman Jim Bob performs The Impossible Dream (The Quest), accompanied by Martin White and The Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra.Taken from the 20-track CD recording of Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People 2010, available for £12 from Gofasterstripe.comDe către RationalistUK
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Science writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford was kind enough to go on the Alpha Course, so you don't have to. (He also gets a room full of 300 rationalists to chant the Lord's Prayer.)Taken from the 20-track CD recording of Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People 2010, available for £12 from Gofasterstripe.com…
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On the tenth day of our Advent Podcasts, cartoonist Martin Rowson looks back with great sentimentality on how we lived before the dawn of civilisation, and says we should replace Christmas with a celebration of the anthropologist Christopher Boehm.Recorded in 2008. Music by Andrea Rocca.De către RationalistUK
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In the sixth Advent Podcast, Robin Ince talks to Dave Gorman about the mathematician Paul Erdős, and how, where all actors have a "Bacon Number" to denote their degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon, all mathematicians have an Erdős Number. He would also like a Soda Stream for Christmas.Recorded in 2008. Music by Andrea Rocca.…
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On the fifth day of our Advent Podcasts, Robin Ince talks to comedian and novelist Alexei Sayle about which scientist he'd like to honour with an annual celebration. And listen out for his choice of the scientific invention he'd like to receive for Christmas.Recorded in 2008. Music by Andrea Rocca.De către RationalistUK
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