Serious Inquiries Only Podcast Episodes featuring Phil Torres

SIO179: Phil Torres on X-Risks and Pinker's Sloppy Scholarship

Serious Inquiries Only - February 07, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 978 ratings
Returning to the show is everyone's favorite scholar of global catastrophic risks, Phil Torres! In the first half of the show, we discuss how global risk has changed and evolved in the years since Trump was elected. I also ask Phil if climate change has gotten so dire that it overshadows other ...

AS290: Are We Living In A Simulation? With Phil Torres

Serious Inquiries Only - November 03, 2016 07:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 978 ratings
Got a nice long action packed episode for you today. In what was originally going to be a two parter, Phil Torres and I talk about the simulation argument made popular by Nick Bostrom. I highly recommend you read the original paper and some of the other resources found here. In the second half, ...

AS256: Super AI and Terrorism, with Phil Torres

Serious Inquiries Only - July 07, 2016 07:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 978 ratings
Today I’m joined by existential risk expert Phil Torres! Phil wrote a book called The End, in which he detailed out several different ways that humanity might become extinct. Phil has written several fascinating articles for a few different online publications, and he’s here to talk about some o...

AS216: The End, with Phil Torres, part 2

Serious Inquiries Only - February 18, 2016 06:34 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 978 ratings
This week I have an incredibly interesting guest by the name of Phil Torres. Phil just wrote a book called The End: What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Apocalypse. We’ve got a really cool 2 part discussion for you. In today’s part, we discuss some other issues like foreign policy, the Mi...

AS215: The End, with Phil Torres

Serious Inquiries Only - February 15, 2016 06:26 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 978 ratings
This week I have an incredibly interesting guest by the name of Phil Torres. Phil just wrote a book called The End: What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Apocalypse. We’ve got a really cool 2 part discussion for you. In today’s part, we talk about Phil and the book and the different ways …...