Has Life Gotten Better?

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Has Life Gotten Better?

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9 minutes

Released:

Oct 5, 2021

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Trends in quality of life over all of human history (not just the last few hundred years).https://www.cold-takes.com/has-life-gotten-better/

Released:

Oct 5, 2021

Format:

Podcast episode

Titles in the series (50)

Amateur read-throughs of blog posts on Cold-Takes.com, for those who prefer listening to reading. Available on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts by searching Cold Takes Audio.

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All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild by Cold Takes Audio
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Digital People Part 1 - intro by Cold Takes Audio
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Summary of history (empowerment and well-being lens) by Cold Takes Audio
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Are we "trending toward" transformative AI? (How would we know?) by Cold Takes Audio
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How to make the best of the most important century? by Cold Takes Audio
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The Duplicator by Cold Takes Audio
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This Can't Go On by Cold Takes Audio
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AI Timelines: Where the Arguments, and the ”Experts,” Stand by Cold Takes Audio
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Has Life Gotten Better? by Cold Takes Audio
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Forecasting transformative AI: the ”biological anchors” method in a nutshell by Cold Takes Audio
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Call to Vigilance by Cold Takes Audio
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Forecasting transformative AI: what's the burden of proof? by Cold Takes Audio
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Rowing, Steering, Anchoring, Equity, Mutiny by Cold Takes Audio
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Unraveling the evidence about violence among very early humans by Cold Takes Audio
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Falling everyday violence, bigger wars and atrocities: how do they net out? by Cold Takes Audio
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Did life get better during the pre-industrial era? (Ehhhh) by Cold Takes Audio
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Has Life Gotten Better?: the Post-Industrial Era by Cold Takes Audio
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Pre-agriculture gender relations seem bad by Cold Takes Audio
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Visualizing Utopia by Cold Takes Audio
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Was life better in hunter-gatherer times? by Cold Takes Audio
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The Bayesian Mindset by Cold Takes Audio
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Why Describing Utopia Goes Badly by Cold Takes Audio
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Future-Proof Ethics by Cold Takes Audio
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Debating myself on whether “extra lives lived” are as good as “deaths prevented” by Cold Takes Audio
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Stakeholder Management and Cost Disease by Cold Takes Audio
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