
Fin Moorhouse - Longtermism, Space, & Entrepreneurship
About this episode
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 Remarks
Please share if you enjoyed this episode! Helps out a ton!
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.dwarkesh.com
Get every episode summarized
Each time Dwarkesh Podcast publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Hosts & guests
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from Dwarkesh Podcast

Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
Dwarkesh Podcast

The rise and fall of agent civilizations
Dwarkesh Podcast

Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
Dwarkesh Podcast

Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
Dwarkesh Podcast