Ideas & Essays
General-interest essayists: history, culture, philosophy, and science writing.
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- 141
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- 45,720
- Podcasts
- 36
- Newsletters
- 90
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- 22 hours ago
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Who publishes here — active in the last 90 days
Ted Gioia
1,498 posts
Writer, jazz pianist and cultural critic who covers music, books, film and the culture business. Author of 12...
David Gemeinhardt
1,080 posts
I write about what I call the Versailles Century (1682-1789), that period when the Kings of France resided in...
Melvyn Bragg
1,072 posts
Broadcaster and novelist known for In Our Time, the BBC Radio 4 academic discussion series he took over in 199...
Allan John (What Is Stoicism?)
1,068 posts
Practical philosophy to help you (and me): 💀LEARN from the past ⏳PLAN for the future 🌷LIVE in the present
Ryan Holiday
1,051 posts
Author focused on marketing, culture and Stoic philosophy. His books include Trust Me, I'm Lying, The Obstacle...
Neil deGrasse Tyson
1,003 posts
Astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, who explains...
Scott Alexander
1,002 posts
Psychiatrist and writer who covers AI safety, effective altruism, economic growth and forecasting, and author...
Noah Smith
1,000 posts
Econ blogger
998 posts
Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Faculty Director o...
Stephen J. Dubner
871 posts
Author and journalist who co-wrote the Freakonomics books with economist Steven Levitt and previously wrote fo...
Lawrence M. Krauss
838 posts
Theoretical physicist and author whose research spans elementary particle physics and cosmology, with a public...
Simon Haisell
774 posts
Newcastle-upon-Tyne writer who produces slow-read guides and read-alongs for long literary works, including Wa...
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- “I would be surprised if there was something created that touched a lot of people, and humans had very little to do with it. Everything that I know about humans...” Kevin Kelly, Freakonomics Radio
- “In the Economist interview, he said, it's not like we can stop AI right now. There's no red button that says stop. Actually, of course there is, right? Generati...” Quinn Slobodian, The Ezra Klein Show
- “In some sense, the fundamental question we need to answer as a species about whether this episode is the season finale or the series finale of our species is wh...” Aza Raskin, StarTalk Radio
- “We sort of think of social media as a kind of baby AI. All it could do is rearrange human posts and human content, decide what we see, and a tiny little misalig...” Aza Raskin, StarTalk Radio
- “There should be a penalty. The longer that, say, a company like OpenAI doesn't disclose or doesn't find something that their rogue AIs do, the higher their pena...” Aza Raskin, StarTalk Radio
- “Imagine a chimpanzee being like, okay, so there's going to be a new version of me that's like a bit smarter. What is the risk? Well, is it going to like eat mor...” Aza Raskin, StarTalk Radio
- “There's also one song that was written originally for the film, probably everyone's least favorite song in the film, which is a very jaunty number called Knock...” Pamela Hutchinson, In Our Time (BBC)
- “Rick has this pose where he says, I don't stick my neck out for anybody. He says that a couple of times. And he doesn't drink with customers and he doesn't take...” Pamela Hutchinson, In Our Time (BBC)
- “If I show you a building, I think you have a reaction to the building because of what you're exposed to and what you like and don't like. But if I could tell yo...” Roman Mars, Conversations with Tyler
- “For a Westerner, the thought that you can find yourself is accompanied by, let me go travel on my own. And it's like, where do you think yourself is? You think...” David Pizarro, Very Bad Wizards
- “However smart LLMs are, and despite the likes of my good friend Richard Dawkins saying that he believes that Claude is truly conscious, I think he's very, very...” Jim al-Khalili, Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
- “If you want to think better, you have to start by reading more. … People ask me how I got my career, how I did anything, and I will flat out tell you I outread...” Steven Kotler, The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish)
- “I'm picking a fight here that I don't really need to pick, but it bugs the shit out of me. I'm like, deep work is another word for flow, brother. Like, I'm sorr...” Steven Kotler, The Knowledge Project (Shane Parrish)
- “I was thinking about how uncorrelated attention and performance is right now. … There is almost no connection between who are the candidates who are everywhere...” Ezra Klein, The Ezra Klein Show
- “The first thing I always tell people is that whenever you're looking at a series of polls in a Senate race or Senate races, plural, always ask yourself, what if...” Nate Silver, The Ezra Klein Show
- “A lot of driving, on the highway in particular, is all designed around calming your brain so that you will go that fast, because humans are not evolved to go th...” Roman Mars, Conversations with Tyler
- “You might think of conspiracy theories as an error of overexplaining. Many conspiracy theories have the characteristic that they take lots of observations that...” Tania Lombrozo, Hidden Brain
- “I set out in the 1980s to rule cold dark matter out. And now, 35 years later, I'm still trying to do it. So often I say my career has been a failure because I s...” Carlos Frenk, In Our Time (BBC)
- “I would argue that a large part of that is how nice natural data is. It's kind of like there's the saying in physics that nature abhors a vacuum. I guess my ver...” Ankur Moitra, Lex Fridman Podcast
- “We solved the million-dollar math problem. There's a trillion-dollar engineering problem, which is like, how do you predict these things in a fast, efficient wa...” Steven Brunton, Lex Fridman Podcast
- “I gave a colloquium in the Princeton math department where I explained in painstaking detail what Lean is, what Mathlib is… And everything I said in that colloq...” Alex Kontorovich, Lex Fridman Podcast
- “Alan Leo was the first person to explicitly psychologize the placements in a natal chart. … And the reason that he did that was because he was accused of fortun...” Matthew Kenney, Hermitix
- “I think it's the big difference between news seekers and news receivers. I think we used to live in a world where you spent time with the news and it was a spec...” Sarah Longwell, The Ezra Klein Show
- “Indie gaming has an audience that truly hates AI, right? And every indie gamer is under tremendous pressure to not say they're using AI. Except, of course, you'...” Ethan Mollick, Freakonomics Radio
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- People and advertisers are everyone credited or heard on these sources in the last 90 days, ranked by every post they have appeared on here. Topics come from the 10 newest posts of each source, so every source counts equally.
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