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A retrospective episode featuring Tyler Cowen and producer Jeff Holmes reflecting on the year's podcast highlights, discussing the most popular episodes, AI's impact, listener questions, and Tyler's pop culture picks from 2015.
A compelling exploration of America's growing isolation and the psychological barriers that prevent people from engaging in meaningful social interactions, revealing how small acts of connection can significantly improve our well-being.
Cal explores the hidden factor making knowledge workers miserable: unpredictable work boundaries caused by digital communication technologies, which disproportionately impacts women and creates constant, unscheduled work expectations.
Cal Newport provides a detailed critique of Eliezer Yudkowsky's arguments about the existential threat of superintelligent AI, arguing that current AI models are simply unpredictable word-guessers rather than intentional beings, and that fears of superintelligence are based on a philosophical thought experiment that has been mistaken for reality.
A deep dive into the current state of woke culture, free speech, and political tribalism, exploring how ideological extremism, cancel culture, and the suppression of open dialogue are threatening liberal values and social discourse.