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 RemarksPlease share if you enjoyed this episode! Helps out a ton! Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkesh.com/subscribe
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