Here are the podcasts I listen to regularly and a few of my favorite episodes of each. They are listed roughly in the order that I find myself choosing to listen to new episodes in.

The 80,000 Hours Podcast

• #17 - Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism, & how to avoid being a moral monster

• #24 - Stefan Schubert on why it's a bad idea to break the rules, even if it's for a good cause

• #35 - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission

• #43 - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines

• #45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization & thinking long-term

• #48 - Brian Christian on better living through the wisdom of computer science

• #52 - Prof Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society

• #62 - Paul Christiano on messaging the future, increasing compute, & how CO2 impacts your brain

• #63 - Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, blockchain's failures, & effective giving

• #67 - Prof David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness

• #79 - A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles

• #86 - Hilary Greaves on Pascal's mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for us

• #90 - Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be

• #107 - Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks

• #116 - Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all

Rationally Speaking

• 259: The genetic lottery (Kathryn Paige Harden)

• 253: Intellectual honesty, cryptocurrency, & more (Vitalik Buterin)

• 249: The case for racial colorblindness (Coleman Hughes)

• 230: Big picture journalism – covering the topics that matter in the long run (Kelsey Piper)

• 197: Why people think some things can’t be quantified – and why they’re wrong (Doug Hubbard)

• 177: The science and ethics of kidney donation (Dylan Matthews)

• 159: Do fish feel pain? (Colin Allen)

• 139: Moral hypocrisy – why doesn’t knowing about ethics make people more ethical? (Eric Schwitzgebel)

• 97: Being a utilitarian in the real world (Peter Singer)

• 84: The myth of universal love (Stephen Asma)

• 41: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding (Robert Zaretsky)

Conversations with Tyler

• E23 Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions

• E39 Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain

• E45 Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything

• E47 Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics

• E76 Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People

• E106 Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy

• E109 Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives

• E118 Sarah Parcak on Archaeology from Space

• E119 Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire

Future of Life Institute

• Roman Yampolskiy on the Uncontrollability, Incomprehensibility, and Unexplainability of AI

• Stephen Batchelor on Awakening, Embracing Existential Risk, and Secular Buddhism

• FLI Podcast: On the Future of Computation, Synthetic Biology, and Life with George Church

Lex Fridman Podcast

• Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators

• George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles

• Francois Chollet: Keras, Deep Learning, and the Progress of AI

• Donald Knuth: Algorithms, TeX, Life, and The Art of Computer Programming

• #72 - Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing

• #101 - Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality

• #103 - Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence

• #114 - Russ Tedrake: Underactuated Robotics, Control, Dynamics and Touch

• #118 - Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks, and Teaching with 3Blue1Brown

• #122 - David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering

• #145 - Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics

• #167 - Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power

• #182 - John Danaher: The Path to Mastery in Jiu Jitsu, Grappling, Judo, and MMA

• #191 - Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction

The Ezra Klein Show

• To Understand This Era, You Need to Think in Systems

• What It Means to be Kind in a Cruel World

• How to Have Better Conversations About Hard Things

• Sam Altman on the A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires, and the Future of Political Power

• This Conversation with Richard Powers is a Gift

Econtalk

• Megan McArdle on Belonging, Home, and National Identity

• Jennifer Frey on Education, Philosophy, and the University

• Sam Quinones on Meth, Fentanyl, and the Least of Us

• Glen Weyl on Antitrust, Capitalism, and Radical Reform

• Michael Easter on the Comfort Crisis

• Leon Kass on Human Flourishing, Living Well, and Aristotle

• Richard Davies on Extreme Economies

• Ryan Holiday on Stillness Is the Key

• Chris Arnade on Dignity

• Emily Oster on Cribsheet

• Sebastian Junger on Tribe

• Alain Bertaud on Cities, Planning, and Order Without Design

• Michael Munger on Crony Capitalism

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

• The clash between social justice and anti-wokeness (with Amber Dawn and Holly Elmore)

• Utopia on earth and morality without guilt (with Joe Carlsmith)

• Chinese Culture and Love Addiction with Ava King

• Utilitarianism and Its Flavors with Nick Beckstead

• Cults and Social Needs with Alice Mottola

• Enlightenment and Sex Work with Aella

Complexity

• Tina Eliassi-Rad on Democracies as Complex Systems

• Orit Peleg on the Collective Behavior of Honeybees & Fireflies

• Chris Kempes on The Physical Constraints on Life & Evolution

Making Sense with Sam Harris

• #259 - The Reckoning to Come

• #242 - Psychedelics and the Self

• #219 - The Power of Compassion

• #156 - The Evolution of Culture

Sean Carroll's Mindscape

• 12 | Wynton Marsalis on Jazz, Time, and America

• 25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation

• 34 | Paul Bloom on Empathy, Rationality, Morality, and Cruelty

• 37 | Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons for Democracy

• 69 | Cory Doctorow on Technology, Monopoly, and the Future of the Internet

• 78 | Daniel Dennett on Minds, Patterns, and the Scientific Image

• 111 | Nick Bostrom on Anthropic Selection and Living in a Simulation

• 119 | Musa al-Gharbi on the Value of Intellectual Diversity

• 145 | Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

• Blueprint for Armageddon Series

Probable Causation

• Episode 6: Manisha Shah on criminalizing sex work

• Episode 8: Amanda Agan on Ban the Box

• Episode 49: Michael Makowsky on the minimum wage, EITC, and recidivism

bio eats world

• Journal Club: Bioengineering Birth... Again!

• Journal Club: Bioengineering Birth

• The Biology of Pain

Future Perfect

• A foundation-funded atrocity

• Your PTA vs. equality

• On Buddhism and Blackness

The Realignment

• 198 | Erich Schwartzel: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

• 171 | Ross Douthat: The Limits of Modern Medicine in a Post-COVID World

• 131 | Katherine Gehl: Breaking the Duopoly with Political Innovation

• 124 | Niall Ferguson: The Politics and History of Catastrophe

• 119 | Zachary Carter: How to Reimagine Capitalism

Sinica

• It’s Complicated: Getting our heads around a changing China

• The paradox of vast corruption and fast growth in China’s “Gilded Age”

• China’s struggle for tech ascendancy, with Dan Wang of Gavekal Dragonomics

• Talking Taiwan with former national intelligence officer Paul Heer

Ideas of India

• Alice Evans on Female Frienships and Fraternal Capital

• Yashica Dutt on Coming Out as Dalit

• Kunal Mangal on Government Jobs and the Labor Market in India

The Portal

• 36: Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz

• 16: Tyler Cowen - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized

Odd Lots

• Isabella Weber on China's Vision for Making Markets Work

• What Complexity Economics Can Add to Our View of the World

• How the World's Companies Wound Up in a Deepening Supply Chain Nightmare

AXRP

• 12 - AI Existential Risk with Paul Christiano

The a16z Podcast

• Anatomy of the SolarWinds Hack: Who What When Where Why How

• Psychedelics: Striking a Balance Between Benefits and Side Effects

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

• S5E24 Making Quantum Computers a Reality

• S5E15 Building a Quantum Computer with Light

• S5E2 How Taiwan is Using Technology to Foster Democracy

• S4E5 Beyond Deep Learning With Gary Marcus

China Talk

The Argument

• Could Breaking Up Meta Make Things Worse?

Utilitarian

• Grand Futures - Anders Sandberg