Changed My Mind
Changed My Mind
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Changed My Mind explores a powerful idea: changing your mind isn't a weakness - it's a superpower. Each episode features accomplished thinkers sharing pivotal moments when they changed their mind about something important. We explore the evidence that tipped the scales, the emotional journey, and how seeing the world from a new perspective impacted their lives. Join us for conversations that will challenge your assumptions and expand your perspective.
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The podcast explores themes of personal growth, philosophy, and psychology, with episodes dedicated to pivotal moments of perspective shifts, such as Rutger Bregman's insights on societal change, and Melanie Joy's exploration of veganism as a worldview shift.
Changed My Mind explores a powerful idea: changing your mind isn’t a weakness – it’s a superpower. Each episode features accomplished thinkers sharing pivotal moments when they changed their mind about something important. We explore the evidence that tipped the scales, the emotional journey, and how seeing the world from a new perspective impacted their lives. Join us for conversations that will challenge your assumptions and expand your perspective.
Rufus Griscom is a writer, podcaster, and longtime techno-optimist who has spent years interviewing the people building the future — from Bill Gates to Reid Hoffman to the founders of Anthropic.
For most of his career Rufus believed technology would overwhelmingly improve the human condition. But after dozens of conversations with the people closest to frontier AI, his view has shifted. He still believes AI could bring astonishing progress – from eradicating disease to ending repetitive labour – but now assigns a serious probability to catastrophic or authoritarian outcomes in our lifetimes.
We explore what changed his mind, why the AI “race dynamic” terrifies insiders more than outsiders realise, and how to stay sane when the stakes range from utopia to extinction.
Want more Rufus or his work?
🎙 Listen to The Next Big Idea podcast — interviews with the thinkers shaping the future
https://www.nextbigideaclub.com/podcast
📚 Explore The Next Big Idea Club — curated book picks by Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain & Daniel Pink
https://www.nextbigideaclub.com
About the hosts
Thom and Aidan left boring, stable careers in law and tech to found FarmKind , a donation platform that helps people be a part of the solution to factory farming, regardless of their diet. While the podcast isn’t about animal welfare, it’s inspired by their daily experience grappling with a fundamental question: Why do people so rarely change their minds, even when confronted with compelling evidence? This curiosity drives their exploration of intellectual humility and the complex factors that enable (or prevent) meaningful belief change.
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