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Dwarkesh PodcastJul 27, 2022

Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship

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Fin Moorhouse is a Research Scholar and assistant to Toby Ord at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute . He co-hosts the Hear This Idea podcast, which showcases new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism . We discuss for-profit entrepreneurship for altruism, space governance, morality in the multiverse, podcasting, the long reflection, and the Effective Ideas & EA criticism blog prize. Watch on YouTube . Listen on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , etc. Episode website + Transcript here .Follow Fin on Twitter . Follow me on Twitter . Subscribe to find out about future episodes! Timestamps (0:00:10) - Introduction (0:02:45) - EA Prizes & Criticism (0:09:47) - Longtermism (0:12:52) - Improving Mental Models (0:20:50) - EA & Profit vs Nonprofit Entrepreneurship (0:30:46) - Backtesting EA (0:35:54) - EA Billionares (0:38:32) - EA Decisions & Many Worlds Interpretation (0:50:46) - EA Talent Search (0:52:38) - EA & Encouraging Youth (0:59:17) - Long Reflection (1:03:56) - Long Term Coordination (1:21:06) - On Podcasting (1:23:40) - Audiobooks Imitating Conversation (1:27:04) - Underappreciated Podcasting Skills (1:38:08) - Space Governance (1:42:09) - Space Safety & 1st Principles (1:46:44) - Von Neuman Probes (1:50:12) - Space Race & First Strike (1:51:45) - Space Colonization & AI (1:56:36) - Building a Startup (1:59:08) - What is EA Underrating? (2:10:07) - EA Career Steps (2:15:16) - Closing Remarks Please share if you enjoyed this episode! Helps out a ton! Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkesh.com/subscribe
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Key quote: “toby horde has that book a book about the precipice about how we're in this time of peril where we have like this time of peril where we have like this time of peril where we have like one in six odds of going extinct this century”
The host brings up Toby Ord's The Precipice to frame a discussion about existential risk and whether expanding into space meaningfully reduces humanity's extinction probability. They use Ord's estimate of about a one-in-six chance of extinction this century as the backdrop for questioning if space settlement is an effective hedge against such risks.
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