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The Iced Coffee Hour
In this episode of *The Alex O'Connor Podcast*, host and philosopher Alex O'Connor engages in a wide-ranging discussion covering AI ethics, media psychology, debate styles, and moral philosophy. The conversation opens with an exploration of whether programming artificial intelligence to be conscious …
Chris Williamson
In this cinematic production of a podcast, Alex O'Connor interviews Peter Hitchens following the latter's appearance on another show where he criticized drug decriminalization and other views held by O'Connor. The interview begins with some friction as Hitchens expresses his dislike for discussing d …
Chris Williamson
The podcast features a discussion centered on David Benatar's controversial philosophy of antinatalism, specifically his argument that it is immoral to bring people into existence. The core of this view relies on an asymmetry between pleasure and pain: before someone exists, the potential for them n …
Lex Fridman
In this episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, Jordan Peterson explores the profound connection between beauty and the divine, arguing that aesthetic experience serves as a pointer toward truth, love, justice, and the classical virtues. Drawing on Dostoevsky's assertion in *The Idiot* that "beauty will …