Popular movies sometimes feature leagues of superheroes who are ready to defend the Earth against catastrophe. In this episode, we’re going to be discussing some real-life superheroes, as chronicled in the new book by our guest, Tom Ough. The book is entitled “The Anti-Catastrophe League: The Pioneers And Visionaries On A Quest To Save The World”. Some of these heroes are already reasonably well known, but others were new to David, and, he suspects, to many of the book’s readers. Tom is a London-based journalist. Earlier in his career he worked in newspapers, mostly for the Telegraph, where he was a staff feature-writer and commissioning editor. He is currently a senior editor at UnHerd, where he commissions essays and occasionally writes them. Perhaps one reason why he writes so well is that he has a BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, where he was a Casberd scholar. Selected follow-ups: About Tom Ough The Anti-Catastrophe League - The book's webpage On novel methods of pandemic prevention What is effective altruism? (EA) Sam Bankman-Fried - Wikipedia (also covers FTX) Open Philanthropy Conscium Here Comes the Sun - book by Bill McKibben The 10 Best Beatles Songs (Based on Streams) Carrington Event - Wikipedia Mirror life - Wikipedia Future of Humanity Institute 2005-2024: final report - by Anders Sandberg Oxford FHI Global Catastrophic Risks - FHI Conference, 2008 Forethought Review of Nick Bostrom’s Deep Utopia - by Calum DeepMind and OpenAI claim gold in International Mathematical Olympiad What the Heck is Hubble Tension? The Decade Ahead - by Leopold Aschenbrenner AI 2027 Anglofuturism Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration How Hacks Happen Hacks, scams, cyber crimes, and other shenanigans explored and explained. Presented... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify PodMatch PodMatch Automatically Matches Ideal Podcast Guests and Hosts For Interviews
