Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship
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