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AI Governance Expert Seeks Podcast Recommendations on History, Politics, and Philosophy

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Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh@S_OhEigeartaigh#1606inTech

Confession: I've never been a podcast guy, never listened to one fully through. But I'm going to have a lot of 'baby in stroller in the park' time, so it's time to start. Would love recommendations please, don't skip the 'obvious' ones.

AI/governance obv, but also history, politics, philosophy etc, stuff that would be interesting to learn about so that I can make conversation that isn't about dirty nappies. For the AI ones, specific episode recommendations (that have aged well/are still useful) especially helpful.

1:21 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 5.9K Views
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Users enthusiastically recommend podcasts like Acquired, The Rest is History, and Philosophize This in response to the AI governance expert's request, praising their superb depth on history and philosophy.

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Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh@S_OhEigeartaigh

These are great, folks, keep 'em coming!

Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh@S_OhEigeartaigh

Confession: I've never been a podcast guy, never listened to one fully through. But I'm going to have a lot of 'baby in stroller in the park' time, so it's time to start. Would love recommendations please, don't skip the 'obvious' ones.

AI/governance obv, but also history, politics, philosophy etc, stuff that would be interesting to learn about so that I can make conversation that isn't about dirty nappies. For the AI ones, specific episode recommendations (that have aged well/are still useful) especially helpful.

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Ryan Briggs@ryancbriggs

@S_OhEigeartaigh the real win here is audiobooks. Cooking Issues is very good for technical cooking and cocktail info. Rational Reminder is good for sane investing advice.

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Mike Cottone@M_Cottone

@S_OhEigeartaigh My favorite podcast recommendation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b1g3c/episodes/downloads

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Dion@2024dion

@S_OhEigeartaigh Skip the junk history podcasts, the ‘new books in’ series has subject matter experts interview academics about their new releases and is always very very good. I particularly enjoy new books in mil history.

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@S_OhEigeartaigh I love @Fall_of_Civ_Pod as a specific lens on history.

Lex Friedman seems out of fashion on Twitter but can be a great listen if you pick episodes.

@Pragmatic_Eng if you pick AI related episodes.

These plus Dwarkesh should cover plenty of your park time :)

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Speaking from my experience, the shorter ones in the @stratechery podcast family (especially the main one and “Dithering”) are great for new dads. Short, current, razor sharp ideas. @cowenconvos is the other must-listen for me even though it’s a bit long for this dad’s lifestyle (and it’s only an hour.) I have to work hard to listen to anything longer, though of course some @dwarkesh_sp episodes are worth the time. (Once past a couple of hours I find audio books much easier to pick up and put down.) Also have enjoyed many episodes of @david_perell’s “How I Write”.

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Vaishnavi Singh@vaishsingh_

@S_OhEigeartaigh Huge fan of The Rest is History as well as Philosophize This! though I confess I have not listened to a podcast in ages 😅

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@S_OhEigeartaigh https://bengoertzel.substack.com/ https://www.manifold1.com/ https://empiricrafting.substack.com/podcast https://podcast.futureoflife.org/ https://www.interconnects.ai/ https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ https://nothinghuman.substack.com/ https://www.goodconversationproject.com/ https://www.winwinpodcast.com/

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Vaishnavi Singh@vaishsingh_

@S_OhEigeartaigh For some deep dives in history, I'd suggest Dan Carlin's podcast

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@S_OhEigeartaigh This was good, but you might end up shouting at your phone during certain moments: https://pca.st/podcast/039a9d30-76af-013e-bac8-0acc26574db2

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Tyler Menzer@Tyler_Menzer

@S_OhEigeartaigh Tangential to politics, Divided Argument w/ @danepps & Will Baude is really good to keep up on the Supreme Court

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AS@agstrait

@S_OhEigeartaigh I've become more of an audiobooks person since having my son - really rate Dungeon Crawler Carl and The Splendid and the Vile.

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@S_OhEigeartaigh Not related to any of the topics you listed (maybe history-ish) but I love Acquired! Superb work put into each episode.

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@S_OhEigeartaigh In Our Time, BBC (history, philosophy, science +), only one I ever listen to!

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Luke McNally@l_mc_nally

Philosophize this! It reminds me of parental leave with my first and added so much breadth to my philosophy education. He is also great at weaving a narrative path across episodes while keeping them self contained enough for you to jump around. I think it's the perfect backdrop to spending time with your baby, which makes you ponder the big things while simultaneously being objectively quite boring.

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Ulysses in chains@ReplicaTricks

@S_OhEigeartaigh Dwarkesh, history of Japan by isaac meyer, empire, ezra klein, @corememory, night science, the rest is politics

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Matt Clancy@mattsclancy

@ryancbriggs @S_OhEigeartaigh +1 to audiobooks

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Summify@Summifyio

@S_OhEigeartaigh Hey 👋 Feel free to check out our Podcast Discover Digest it has all of the above mentioned https://discover-digest.beehiiv.com/

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Rumtin@rumtin

@S_OhEigeartaigh The Rest is History is good fun

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