Name: What's Our Problem? w/Tim Urban
Uploaded: 2025-04-22T16:21:30+00:00
Duration: 1 h 7 min 16 s
Description: My friend Tim Urban, author of one of the most important books of the last 50 years, What’s Our Problem? We dove straight into the deep end—discussing the three existential threats facing the West. Fr

Streamed on: Apr 22, 4:01 pm EDT

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My friend Tim Urban, author of one of the most important books of the last 50 years, What’s Our Problem? We dove straight into the deep end—discussing the three existential threats facing the West. From there we segued into the urgency of clear writing and habits of thought to the role of reasoning and truth-seeking in the age of AI. Then we explored the question on everyone’s mind:

Is Western society collapsing before our eyes?

Tim's book: https://waitbutwhy.com/whatsourproblem
Tim on X: https://x.com/waitbutwhy

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:10 What’s our problem?
4:25 Existential problems facing the West
15:40 Fairness
20:50 Teaching people to value things they should value
27:30 Good relationships
30:08 “Platforming”
35:25 Authors & AI
39:10 Tim’s new book
43:10 Humanoid robots
59:50 Living in Austin, TX