Minds Almost Meeting

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Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.

Recent Episodes
  • Potential vs. achievement (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Nov 7, 2024 – 01:00:05
  • Polls vs. prediction markets (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Arnold Brooks)
    Oct 31, 2024 – 01:03:57
  • Modernism (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Oct 10, 2024 – 01:00:29
  • Fear of persuasion (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Sep 12, 2024 – 01:03:59
  • Cancel culture (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Aug 28, 2024 – 00:59:01
  • Romantic validation (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Aug 8, 2024 – 01:03:35
  • Cryonics (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Jul 31, 2024 – 01:05:53
  • Taylor Swift (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Jul 24, 2024 – 01:03:16
  • Love triangles (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Jul 17, 2024 – 00:53:56
  • Color (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Jul 3, 2024 – 00:57:41
  • Power (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Jun 26, 2024 – 01:05:53
  • Experts vs. elites [Revisited] (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Jun 19, 2024 – 01:02:18
  • Protest (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Jun 12, 2024 – 01:04:30
  • Internet culture (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Katherine Dee)
    Jun 5, 2024 – 01:09:05
  • Meta (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    May 29, 2024 – 00:59:24
  • The Two Cultures (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    May 2, 2024 – 01:07:41
  • Multiculturalism (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Apr 24, 2024 – 01:06:38
  • Cultural evolution (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Apr 17, 2024 – 01:00:43
  • 3 Body Problem (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)
    Apr 11, 2024 – 01:04:13
  • Corpses (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Apr 3, 2024 – 01:03:26
  • Nostalgia (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Mar 27, 2024 – 01:01:46
  • Resentment (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Mar 20, 2024 – 01:00:06
  • Social miracles (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Mar 14, 2024 – 01:06:12
  • Consumerism (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Mar 7, 2024 – 00:59:20
  • Disagreement and alienation (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Berislav Marušić)
    Feb 28, 2024 – 01:07:06
  • Evidence order bias (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Feb 21, 2024 – 01:03:22
  • Theoretical vs. Practical Reason (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Laura Deming)
    Nov 16, 2023 – 01:06:00
  • Psychoanalysis (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Jamieson Webster)
    Nov 9, 2023 – 00:55:47
  • Inspiration (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Nov 2, 2023 – 00:59:22
  • Respect (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Oct 12, 2023 – 01:02:10
  • Fighting (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Oct 5, 2023 – 01:01:02
  • Contrarians (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Aella)
    Sep 28, 2023 – 01:02:51
  • Robin's Birthday (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)
    Sep 21, 2023 – 01:02:37
  • Fertility (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Sep 13, 2023 – 01:02:06
  • Advice (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Aug 30, 2023 – 00:58:22
  • Interpretation (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Arnold Brooks)
    Aug 24, 2023 – 01:02:41
  • vibecamp (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Jun 21, 2023 – 00:55:05
  • God (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Jun 14, 2023 – 00:55:27
  • Moore's Paradox (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Jun 7, 2023 – 01:06:41
  • AI Risk (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with David Duvenaud)
    May 31, 2023 – 01:08:06
  • Partiality (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    May 24, 2023 – 00:57:58
  • Alignment and Competition (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    May 17, 2023 – 01:15:12
  • The Urge to Rebel (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    May 10, 2023 – 01:00:10
  • The Etiquette of Equality (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    May 3, 2023 – 00:50:09
  • Transformative Choices (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Apr 26, 2023 – 00:59:37
  • Edgelord Energy (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Rory from The Violet Hour)
    Apr 19, 2023 – 01:09:04
  • Management (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Mar 30, 2023 – 01:02:40
  • Apology (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Mar 22, 2023 – 01:05:08
  • Experts vs. Elites (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)
    Mar 15, 2023 – 01:03:28
  • Sarcasm (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)
    Mar 8, 2023 – 00:57:07
Recent Reviews
  • sloejim1
    Technical problems mar an otherwise good show
    Some episodes have gaps and silences. Guests are also sometimes mindful of their audience. It is very interesting stuff but it would benefit from better production
  • Emery Rouette
    All hail Queen Callard
    Started listening to this podcast after reading a New Yorker article that described the bumbling and banal events of Callard’s life in a tone of breathless fascination and deference. I thought: maybe the writer isn’t up to capturing the dimensions and subtleties of Callard’s charisma and brilliance? Nope, it simply isn’t there. But keep listening because the cluelessness and self-regard of this pair becomes fun camp once you adjust your expectations. (1)Callard says it’s a huge problem for her that she never fails to charm everybody. (2)Or when her cohost (designated flatterer) describes Callard as being in the top 99.99% of communicators and she fails to object.(3) in one episode Callard describes how philosophy professors all so fully embody their roles that there is not enough friction and conflict in the profession and then in the Irving Goffman episode largely dismisses his ideas as interesting but as a time capsule. And most of the episode is given over to congratulating ourselves for great gains in authenticity since the 1950s. Great stuff! Great stuff!
  • bjohns383
    You what?!?
    Agnes Callard throws away her kids Halloween candy. That is messed up, lady. Unfollow. [I’m not making this up she said it on Twitter]
  • borschtbelt
    amazing philosophy pod
    Two extremely smart, extremely original philosophers coming from very different traditions to grapple with puzzles of human nature and the human world. Best podcast I’ve heard in a very long time
  • fjishx
    Hope you guys keep making it!
    Compatible duo. Accessible and interesting. Thanks for letting academic thought trickle down to the peasants.
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