Latest Effective altruism Podcast Episodes
Update Episode: The Global Cryonics Summit in Miami
Cryonics Underground - June 26, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings*(edit) We are officially sold out, but you can still add your email at the bottom of the website to get updates about future events. In this quick update episode, Max and Daniel take a break from their usual guest format to update you on the Global Cryonics Summit in Miami this July 20th and...
John Smart - Alternative Methods of Brain Preservation
Cryonics Underground - March 11, 2024 15:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsImportant Note! Join your hosts Max and Daniel, plus luminaries from across the Cryonics industry, at the upcoming Global Cryonics Summit on July 20-21st in Miami, Florida. Go to globalcryonicssummit.com for early-bird tickets and more information. ----- In this episode, Max and Daniel are joi...
Update Episode: Milestones and Upcoming Events
Cryonics Underground - October 20, 2023 21:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this brief update episode, Max and Daniel take a break from their usual guest format to share some exciting announcements and milestones. In this update episode, we discuss: Cryosphere's Growth: Celebrating the big achievement of reaching 1,000 members in our community. Upcoming AMA: All a...
James Arrowood - New Leadership and New Directions at Alcor
Cryonics Underground - August 11, 2023 10:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, Max and Daniel are joined by James Arrowood, Alcor's new CO-CEO. Our wide-ranging conversation delves into James's approach to leadership, his views on Alcor as a business and several of his upcoming strategic initiatives. In this captivating conversation, we explore: The upc...
Michael Benjamin - Intriguing Outcomes of Alcor's Meta-Analysis
Cryonics Underground - June 14, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, Max and Daniel sit down with Michael Benjamin to discuss his meta-analysis of Alcor's case history. He is working on a comprehensive meta-analysis of all Alcor patient cases, an endeavor whose goal is to develop, experimentally validate, and refine a quantitative cryopreservatio...
Aubrey de Grey - Bridging the Gap between Cryonics and Life Extension
Cryonics Underground - April 12, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, Max and Daniel sit down with the renowned Aubrey de Grey to discuss the connection between life extension and cryonics. They cover a wide range of topics, diving into the latest breakthroughs and obstacles in both fields. In this captivating conversation, they explore: The cur...
Rebecca Ziegler - Tomorrow Bio Sets Sail for the New World
Cryonics Underground - March 01, 2023 20:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we’re speaking with Rebecca Ziegler - Product Manager at Tomorrow Bio, a member of the Berlin Standby Team, and the newest moderator on the Cryosphere. Why Rebecca chose business over politics What it’s like to work at Tomorrow Bio Job opportunities in European Cryonics Why T...
Max Marty - The Cryonics Survey of 2022
Cryonics Underground - November 29, 2022 23:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this special episode, Max Marty is speaking with return guest host Nikki Olson about the launch of the great Cryonics Survey of 2022. The Cryonics Survey is a large comprehensive survey of Cryonicists, the Cryocurious, and Cryocrastinators; intended to improve our understanding of the people ...
Kai Micah Mills - Why Pet Cryonics Matters
Cryonics Underground - August 25, 2022 17:00 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode Max and Daniel speak with Kai Micah Mills. Kai is the Founder of Cryopets, the first company focused on pet cryopreservation. Before founding Cryopets, Kai founded and ran several entrepreneurial ventures the tech space. In this episode we discuss: Kai's history as a tech ent...
Carrie Radomski - Reshaping Cryonics in Canada
Cryonics Underground - July 21, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode Max and Daniel speak with Carrie Radomski, President & Board Member of the Lifespan Society of British Columbia. Carrie is a geoscientist, writer, artist, crypto enthusiast, gold explorer (yes, the kind that goes looking for gold in the Yukon), and much more. In this episode we...
Bonus Episode: The Cryosphere Roundtable
Cryonics Underground - June 18, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsTo celebrate coming back from our short hiatus, today we bring you our first bonus episode! This is the audio version of the new cryonics YouTube series: The Cryosphere Roundtable. The question we discuss today is: What books should every cryonicist read? The inaugural episode of a regularly...
Robin Hanson - Conformity & Cryonics (+ Guest Host Nikki Olson)
Cryonics Underground - April 14, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOn this episode of the podcast, Max is joined by special guest host and previous guest, Nikki Olson. For the first time, we're are also publishing the video of our full conversation over on Youtube! You can find it at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acp6tBSJgE4 Today, Max and Nikki are spea...
Patrick Harris - Leading Alcor's Evolution
Cryonics Underground - February 23, 2022 15:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, Max and Daniel speak with Patrick Harris, the CEO and President of Alcor. Patrick is speaking with us today on several major new initiatives he's been working on over the past several months. We'll be doing both a reveal of Patrick's new initiatives along with a deep dive into t...
Ralph Merkle - On Nanotech & Manipulating the Microcosmos
Cryonics Underground - February 08, 2022 06:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode Max and Daniel speak with the venerable Ralph Merkle. Among his numerous achievements Ralph is the leading expert on nanotechnology, the inventor of cryptographic hashing and the co-inventor of public key cryptography. He is currently a board member at Alcor. In today's epis...
Ben Best - Legendary Cryonics Polymath
Cryonics Underground - January 12, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, Max and Daniel speak with the legendary Ben Best. Among the numerous cryonics and life extension groups he has been associated with over the years, Ben is most known for being the former president of the Cryonics Institute from 2003 to 2012. He is a senior member of a cryonics ...
Ben Best - Legendary Cryonics Polymath
Cryonics Underground - January 12, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode, Max and Daniel speak with the legendary Ben Best. Among the numerous cryonics and life extension groups he has been associated with over the years, Ben is most known for being the former president of the Cryonics Institute from 2003 to 2012. He is a senior member of a cryonics ...
Lisa Harris - Trusting in Trusts
Cryonics Underground - November 19, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode Max and Daniel speak with Lisa Harris. Lisa is an Alcor member and an advisor to the board of directors. She is also on Alcor's legal and regulatory committee as well as the research and development committee. Lisa has a background as an attorney, and currently works in healthca...
Eric Vogt - The ICEman Cometh
Cryonics Underground - October 27, 2021 21:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode Max and Daniel speak with Eric Vogt. Eric is a veteran paramedic, a pilot and one of the two co-founders of I.C.E. - International Cryomedicine Experts. I.C.E is a highly experienced standby, stabilization and transportation company. In today's conversation we discuss: What I.C...
Gennady Stolyarov II - Transhumanism, a Philosophy for the Future
Cryonics Underground - September 28, 2021 05:00 - 3 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGennady Stolyarov II (G. Stolyarov II) became the second Chairman in the history of the Transhumanist Party in November 2016. Mr. Stolyarov is an actuary, independent philosophical essayist, science-fiction novelist, poet, amateur mathematician, composer, and Editor-in-Chief of The Rational Arg...
Joseph Kowalsky - on Faith and Cryonics
Cryonics Underground - August 20, 2021 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsJoseph Kowalsky is a long-time Cryonicist and Officer at the Cryonics’s Institute’s leadership team. Joseph is also a financial consultant and has spoken publicly on behalf of Cryonics at various events in the past. Joseph is leading the fight to promote organ cryopreservation via the Cryo-prize...
Nikki Olson - On Life Monitoring Devices
Cryonics Underground - July 23, 2021 23:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode Max and Daniel speak with Nikki Olson. Nikki is a writer and researcher in the field of futurism and trans-humanist topics and she is currently working as a software engineer. She is one of the worlds top experts in the field of life monitoring as it pertains to Cryonics. In to...
Chris Gillett- Surveying Public Sentiment
Cryonics Underground - June 18, 2021 02:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode we speak with Chris Gillett. Chris worked alongside Emil Kendziorra from EBF and Tomorrow Biostasis to conduct a survey of the public's sentiments towards Cryonics. In this episode we will cover the surprising results of this survey including: -How the public's perceives of Cry...
Peter Tsolakides - Cryonics in the Land Down Under
Cryonics Underground - April 29, 2021 18:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn this episode Max and Daniel speak with Peter Tsolakides. Peter is the founder, director and chairman of Southern Cryonics- the first and only Cryonics organization in Australia. In the past, Peter held senior management roles in a major international oil company and has over 30 years experien...
Career Panel with Recent Grads: One for the World Global Health and Development Speaker Series
One for The World @ Stanford - April 14, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating<p>This interactive speaker panel informs participants about career possibilities within highly effective non-profits and effective altruism more broadly. The panelists engaged in a conversation with each other and the audience (through audience-submitted questions) on topics ranging from their ...
Effective altruism in a nutshell
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours - April 12, 2021 23:00 - 9 minutes'Effective Altruism: An Introduction' is a collection of ten top episodes of The 80,000 Hours Podcast specifically selected to help listeners quickly get up to speed on the school of thought known as effective altruism. Here the host of the show — Rob Wiblin — briefly explains what eff...
One: Holden Karnofsky on times philanthropy transformed the world & Open Phil's plan to do the same
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours - April 12, 2021 22:00 - 2 hoursThe Green Revolution averted mass famine during the 20th century. The contraceptive pill gave women unprecedented freedom in planning their own lives. Both are widely recognised as scientific breakthroughs that transformed the world. But few know that those breakthroughs only happened w...
Two: Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours - April 12, 2021 21:00 - 2 hoursOf all the people whose well-being we should care about, only a small fraction are alive today. The rest are members of future generations who are yet to exist. Whether they’ll be born into a world that is flourishing or disintegrating – and indeed, whether they will ever be born at all...
Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours - April 12, 2021 20:30 - 2 hoursThe effective altruist research community tries to identify the highest impact things people can do to improve the world. Unsurprisingly, given the difficulty of such a massive and open-ended project, very different schools of thought have arisen about how to do the most good. Today’s ...
Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours - April 12, 2021 20:15 - 2 hoursWill SpaceX land people on Mars in the next decade? Will North Korea give up their nuclear weapons? Will your friend turn up to dinner? Spencer Greenberg, founder of ClearerThinking.org has a process for working out such real life problems. In this conversation from 2018, Spencer walk...
Five: Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours - April 12, 2021 20:00 - 1 hourImmanuel Kant is a profoundly influential figure in modern philosophy, and was one of the earliest proponents for universal democracy and international cooperation. He also thought that women have no place in civil society, that it was okay to kill illegitimate children, and that there ...
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