What is your pick for the top single podcast you've listened to this past year? Here are my top picks:
1. Andrés Gómez @[100002464994870:2048:Emilsson] on "Solving Consciousness and Being Happy All the Time". Among other things, Andres Gomez Emilsson discusses the therapeutic potential of the psychedelic 5-MEO-DMT, reversing opiate tolerance with drugs like ultra low dose naltrexone, and why it might be desirable to live in a near permanent state of happiness.
https://mostinterestingpeople.podbean.com/e/16-andres-gomez-emilsson-on-solving-consciousness-and-being-happy-all-the-time/
2. @[204401235:2048:Robert Wiblin]'s interview with Glen Wyl. Wyl discusses how we might be able to get better governance if voters are allowed to express not just which policies they prefer, but how strongly they prefer them via process called quadratic voting.
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/glen-weyl-radically-reforming-capitalism-and-democracy/
3. Jim Rutt's interview with @[1702318862:2048:Jason Brennan], in which Brennan discusses his book Against Democracy. Among other things, Brennan covers the reasons why democratic voting systems so often produce terrible policies, and suggests an improvement (epistocracy) that may result in better informed, more rational institutional decisionmaking.
https://www.jimruttshow.com/jason-brennan/
1. Andrés Gómez @[100002464994870:2048:Emilsson] on "Solving Consciousness and Being Happy All the Time". Among other things, Andres Gomez Emilsson discusses the therapeutic potential of the psychedelic 5-MEO-DMT, reversing opiate tolerance with drugs like ultra low dose naltrexone, and why it might be desirable to live in a near permanent state of happiness.
https://mostinterestingpeople.podbean.com/e/16-andres-gomez-emilsson-on-solving-consciousness-and-being-happy-all-the-time/
2. @[204401235:2048:Robert Wiblin]'s interview with Glen Wyl. Wyl discusses how we might be able to get better governance if voters are allowed to express not just which policies they prefer, but how strongly they prefer them via process called quadratic voting.
https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/glen-weyl-radically-reforming-capitalism-and-democracy/
3. Jim Rutt's interview with @[1702318862:2048:Jason Brennan], in which Brennan discusses his book Against Democracy. Among other things, Brennan covers the reasons why democratic voting systems so often produce terrible policies, and suggests an improvement (epistocracy) that may result in better informed, more rational institutional decisionmaking.
https://www.jimruttshow.com/jason-brennan/