{"podcast":{"title":"LessWrong (Curated & Popular)","slug":"lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","podcast_index_feed_id":5643401,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2037297.rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/421877","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/xq8g0aka74ttwoa9xkxlmy5fn9oa?.jpg","author":"LessWrong","episode_count":859,"summary":"Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more, subscribe to the “Lesswrong (30+ karma)” feed.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401"},"episode":{"title":"\"The Darwinian Honeymoon - Why I am not as impressed by human progress as I used to be\" by Elias Schmied","slug":"the-darwinian-honeymoon-why-i-am-not-as-impressed-by-human-progress-as-i-used-to-be-by-elias-schmied","published_at":"2026-05-12T18:30:36+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/the-darwinian-honeymoon-why-i-am-not-as-impressed-by-human-progress-as-i-used-to-be-by-elias-schmied","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19166213-the-darwinian-honeymoon-why-i-am-not-as-impressed-by-human-progress-as-i-used-to-be-by-elias-schmied.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19166213-the-darwinian-honeymoon-why-i-am-not-as-impressed-by-human-progress-as-i-used-to-be-by-elias-schmied.mp3","summary":"Crossposted from Substack and the EA Forum. A common argument for optimism about the future is that living conditions have improved a lot in the past few hundred years, billions of people have been lifted out of poverty, and so on. It's a very strong, grounding piece of evidence - probably the best we have in figuring out what our foundational beliefs about the world should be. However, I now think it's a lot less powerful than I once did. Let's take a Darwinian perspective -...","meta_description":"Crossposted from Substack and the EA Forum. A common argument for optimism about the future is that living conditions have improved a lot in the past few…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":432,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/episodes/the-darwinian-honeymoon-why-i-am-not-as-impressed-by-human-progress-as-i-used-to-be-by-elias-schmied/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/the-darwinian-honeymoon-why-i-am-not-as-impressed-by-human-progress-as-i-used-to-be-by-elias-schmied.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}