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Pod: Part II of My Conversation With Dan Williams on AI
If you haven’t already checked out my conversation with Dan about existential risk from AI, I strongly recommend you do so.
Oct 4 • Ian Leslie
13:40
Peak Burnham
A Champagne Supernova In the Sky
Oct 3 • Ian Leslie

September 2026

New Podcast: Is AI Really Going To Kill Us All?
A Sceptical Look at AI’s Existential Risk With the Philosopher Dan Williams
Sep 27 • Ian Leslie
1:09:08
Why Is the Left So Bad at Education?
Lessons From the Story of Nikole Hannah-Jones and Her Daughter
Sep 26 • Ian Leslie
Why Does Every Society Invent the Same Things?
Cultural Traditions As Technologies For Giving Us What We Want
Sep 19 • Ian Leslie
Seven Rules of Good Conversation
Or At Least of Avoiding Bad Conversation
Sep 12 • Ian Leslie
Why I Won’t Reply To Your AI-Generated Email
The Email Exchange That Radicalised Me
Sep 5 • Ian Leslie

August 2026

Why Introverts Make the Best Extroverts
Thoughts Inspired By Reading (About) Emmanuel Carrère. Plus a Glorious Rattle Bag.
Aug 29 • Ian Leslie
Politics Is Making Academia Stupid
On Our Self-Lobotomising Universities
Aug 22 • Ian Leslie
Einstein, Churchill, and AI
What LLMs Can't Do
Aug 15 • Ian Leslie
The Great and Unfortunate Story of Jason Arday
A One-Stop Shop For the Craziest Scandal of 2026
Aug 8 • Ian Leslie
The Last Lunch
A Short Story
Aug 1 • Ian Leslie
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