On What Matters

In this episode, Coleman sat down with existential risk ethicists and researcher Dr. SJ Beard from Cambridge's Existential Risk Institute about the far future of humanity, ethical growth through generations, and the psychology behind striving to do the most good. The two also discussed opening the number of possible future worlds and how it connects to motivation to do the work that morally we must this century. 

"We are motivated by what we believe we can achieve, much more than what we think we ought to do" -- SJ Beard. 

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In this episode, Coleman and Nathaniel speak with Luke Kemp and Catherine Rhodes, about the two researchers' views on governing existential threats within our international system. The four also discuss some of the leading challenges to effective international cooperation and mitigation of pressing threats facing our world like climate change, advanced technological threats, biosecurity, and inequality. 

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What role have philosophers played in existential risk? What conditions lead to the field's origin? Today Coleman Speaks with Dr. SJ Beard of The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at Cambridge. Covering topics from SJ Beard and Phil Torres' 2020 article Ripples on the Great Sea of Life, which covers in great depth the history of existential risk. 

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Engineering practices are fundamental to overcoming obstacles facing society in the 21st Century. Existential threats like climate change, artificial intelligence, looming food and water insecurity  Today I am speaking with  Dr. Joyce Cooper who is a professor and researcher at the University of Washington’s Mechanical Engineering Department. Her work largely focuses on combining environmental assessment with product design and engineering. My co-host today is John Hamann, who is one of the Master’s students at UW working with Dr. Cooper. 

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2Is global inequality an existential threat? How do  question social justice connect to questions of the greatest threats facing our world in the 21st century and what might conceptions of global justice inform our approach to looming risks like climate change and how might global justice help us in our overcoming of these risks? This week Coleman speaks with Dr. Ndidi Nwaneri from Loyola University in Chicago. Dr. Nwaneri'ss research surrounds social development, global justice, and existential risk. 

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How do we create sustainable change going forward into the future? Where do questions of equity fit into this discussion of the long-term health of global citizens? This week Coleman spoke with Dickson Despommier, an academic with over 30 years of experience in Public health at Columbia University and Fordham University. Dr. Despommier and Coleman discussed the future of agriculture and vertical farming in Episode 4 of the 21st talks podcast.

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This was recorded on Coleman's third day of Cambridge's Conference on Catastrophic Risk 2020.  Which is a conference with the world's leading experts on Global Catastrophic Risk put on by The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and Cambridge.  

This conference was incredible, I am so thankful for the insights and growth into this field that I love talking, reading, and researching so much. Existential Risk is here to stay and is quickly coming into a renaissance of discovery into questions concerning our species survival in the 21st Century. In today's special episode of the 21st Talks, Coleman dives into the lessons from this year's conference and the philosophical and psychological connections that this conference has brought up for him. 

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What does Trumpism tell us about the future of Democracy? Is Democracy in threat by Bipartisanship? This week Coleman spoke with Professor Richard Arenberg from Brown University's Watson Institute about his research on Bipartisanship, where it came from, and why it continues to get worse!   

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