Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by KnMn » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 1:35 AM UTC

louis-paul wrote: post #108

rahuldottech wrote: post #7

Basically all of The Anthropocene Reviewed: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anthropocene-reviewed Beautiful essays by John Green. I only started listening at the end of December. -- I've also been checking out the Political Philosophy Podcast, and I've liked what I've heard till now: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/ -- Again, I can't choose specific episodes, but Heavyweight is pretty amazing too: htt…

I discovered The Anthropocene Reviewed last year. My favorite review is Tetris: “Tetris is a game about time and space. Time is always speeding up, with blocks falling faster and faster, and space is always filling in. There is no winning, Tetris always ends the same way, no matter how expertly you place the blocks. You play until you die. It takes five minutes to learn Tetris. It’s not grand or ambitious. It’s merel…

What an excerpt! I have to check this out now.

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by KnMn » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 1:38 AM UTC

geophertz wrote: post #100

K0nserv wrote: post #44

Every episode of Darknet Diaries[0]. Episode 49 and the two Xbox Underground episodes are excellent, but regardless of where you start you cannot go wrong with Darknet Diaries. 0: https://darknetdiaries.com/

I just finished listening to "Episode 49: Elliot" and I must say, I'm quite upset by the host's reaction. He doesn't seem at all to be someone in the security research field. Either he has those reaction because this is a mainstream podcast and purposely tries to have a "dumb" reaction for his audience (like in a children's film) or he doesn't seem to understand hacker culture at all.

I've listened to almost every episode and I really like the podcast but I admin I share this criticism. His tone seems pretty unnatural at times and the longer you listen the more it bothers you. Still worth listening for the great stories.

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by nojvek » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 9:56 AM UTC

spookyuser wrote: post #177

nojvek wrote: post #83

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Geohot was great. I immediately bought a comma ai eon kit after listening to it. My fav was Gary Marcus though. Really showing what breakthroughs we’d need to make to truly have intelligent AI. Without it self driving cars and conversational AIs are always a decade away. I immediately bought his book “Rebooting AI” afterwards too. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artificial-intelligenc...

Wow, if your Eon is installed and everything, how is it? Would love to buy a full eon and everything but I don't have a compatible car yet, will definitely make sure that my next car is 100% comma compatible though. Thanks, will check out that episode!

Love the Eon. Use it almost every day. Does what it says it does. Keeps the car dead center on a lane.

Think about Eon as a device that turns the car into a train that follows rail tracks. In this instance, the rail tracks are the road lanes. Works amazing on highways.

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by lamby » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 10:50 AM UTC

wdella wrote: post #159

The Roman Mars Mazda Virus from Reply All and 99% Invisible. This joint episode is an engaging and hilarious tale of debugging an overly ‘smart’ car stereo, as well as going above and beyond the call of duty out of sheer love for podcasting. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/brh8jm

Reply All is a good reminder to keep everything... unserious. :)

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by jiscariot » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC

ned7 wrote: post #97

The first episode of "the portal" was great. In that episode Eric Weinstein and Peter Thiel deeply discussed a variety of topics. https://youtu.be/nM9f0W2KD5s

I like Eric Weinstein and he is obviously brilliant, but sometimes he comes across as liking the sound of his voice a little too much--or too theoretical. For that reason, I really enjoyed the interview with Tyler Cowen--Tyler challenged Eric on some things that made for an overall excellent conversation.

But, yea - there are not a lot of interviews out there with that kind of access to Thiel, so it was greatly enjoyed.

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by tomtompl » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 8:12 PM UTC

Weinstein's The Portal with Kasparov <3

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by ace_of_spades » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

I love the 80,000 hours podcast [1] which goes into depth about how a career can be used to have a positive impact on the world. They have 2-3 hour conversations with interesting people like David Chalmers, Peter Singer, Bruce Schneier, Vitalik Buterin, Glen Weyl, Phil Tetlock, etc.

It‘s quite amazing actually, highly recommend!

1: https://80000hours.org/podcast/

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by therealdrag0 » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 7:26 PM UTC

Pandabob wrote: post #6

I've got two: Andrew McAfee on Econtalk [1] and Margaret Atwood on Conversations with Tyler [2]. [1]: https://www.econtalk.org/andrew-mcafee-on-more-from-less/ [2]: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/margaret-atwood/

Love EconTalk. I can't find anything else that is as consistently thoughtful and thought-provoking. Any suggestions?

However, my impression is Andrew McAffee's research didn't take into account how outsourcing would affect the data! So I'm taking it with a grain of salt.

Someone shared this article with me recently that looks at how trade affects CO2, but I haven't dug into it yet: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by fetchingwater » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 4:05 PM UTC

Thersites wrote: post #101

I'm happy to see Naval mentioned a bunch, bummed that no one has mentioned the 'After On' podcast by Rob Reid [1]. Rob Reid interviews Naval, ep. 44 & 45, the 2 part interview/discussion focuses on X-Risks, whether the long-term is going to exist for our species, automated assassination markets, drone swarms ending commercial air travel as we know it, fucking awesome. My dad is a 71 year old doctor, a little aspy, lo…

Thanks for mentioning the 'After On' podcast with Naval! I was unaware, I'll give it a listen as I always find his talks fascinating.

Re: Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

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Post by jamtax » Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 6:21 PM UTC

mongol wrote: post #33

alamortsubite wrote: post #27

Other podcasts come and fall by the wayside, but I'll always look forward to the next episode of In Our Time ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot ). I'm excited to try others listed here that are new to me, though.

I also listen to In our time. But maybe it is because I am not native English speaker, but I find the host quite rude to the experts, often interrupts them unnecessarily etc?

I definitely know what you mean, and you can see it mentioned in reviews on Apple's podcast app quite frequently. I think it's mostly a cultural difference.

It feels like he conducts the show sort of like a stern professor at storied British school or something along those lines. Very concerned with concision and clarity. I don't tend to mind it but I can see why it would seem odd or off-putting to people.