Here, I intend to keep a list of podcast episodes that I learned the most from. They are listed roughly in descending order of when I listened to them. So the ones on top of the table reflect my latest thinking, while the ones on bottom are about things that I was interested in or agreed with in the past, but might not anymore.
| Topic | Episode | Show |
|---|
| Innovation and economics | Big Business with Tyler Cowen | Software Engineering Daily |
| Innovation and economics | Complacency with Tyler Cowen | Software Engineering Daily |
| Philosophy, politics, and culture | What is capitalism? | TokCast |
| Deutschian-Popperian philosophy | The Deutsch Files (multi-episode series marked as I, II, III, and IV) | Naval |
| Deutschian-Popperian philosophy | David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race (two-part series, part 2 here) | Naval |
| Deutschian-Popperian philosophy | David Deutsch & Steven Pinker (First Ever Public Dialogue) — AGI, P(Doom), and The Enemies of Progress (#153) | The Joe Walker Podcast |
| Deutschian-Popperian philosophy | Against Bayesianism — David Deutsch (#139) | The Joe Walker Podcast |
| Deutschian-Popperian philosophy | Ep 59: The Nexus | TokCast |
| Deutschian-Popperian philosophy | Surviving the Cosmos - A Conversation with David Deutsch | Making Sense |
| Software and language design | Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ | Lex Fridman Podcast |
| Software and game development | John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets | Lex Fridman Podcast |
| Effective altruism & futurism | Anders Sandberg on Exploratory Engineering, Value Diversity, and Grand Futures | Hear This Idea |
| Economics & political philosophy | Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society | Conversations with Tyler |
| Transformative AI & post-work society | Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom) | EconTalk |
| Ancient history | 56 – Kings of Kings (now behind paywall) | Hardcore History |
You might also be interested in my post about detailed testing and comparison of podcast apps or the one about my favorite podcast shows.