80,000 Hours Podcast
By Rob, Luisa, Keiran, and the 80,000 Hours team
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Jul 25, 2022
T. Fox
Jul 2, 2021
Sometimes over my head, but frequently thought-provoking and enlightening long-form interviews on a host of topics from moral philosophy to computer science to global biological hazards.
Andrew Kaluzny
Sep 18, 2019
80,000 hours is high-fidelity motivational fuel to anyone who has ever wanted to be a force of good in this world. It's broad, nuanced, empathetic, funny, and supercharged with premonition.
Jul 21, 2019
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Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them.
Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts.
Produced by Keiran Harris. Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.
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#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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#198 – Meghan Barrett on challenging our assumptions about insects
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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#193 – Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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#191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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#191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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#190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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#189 – Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems
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May 29, 2024 |
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#188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good
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May 23, 2024 |
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#187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a "space bastard"
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May 14, 2024 |
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#186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives
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May 01, 2024 |
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#185 – Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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#184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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AI governance and policy (Article)
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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#183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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#182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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#181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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#180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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#179 – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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#178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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#177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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#90 Classic episode – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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#112 Classic episode – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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#111 Classic episode – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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2023 Mega-highlights Extravaganza
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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#100 Classic episode – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety, and imposter syndrome
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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#176 – Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI's leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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#175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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#174 – Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate workers
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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#173 – Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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#172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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#171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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#170 – Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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#169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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#168 – Ian Morris on whether deep history says we're heading for an intelligence explosion
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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#167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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#166 – Tantum Collins on what he’s learned as an AI policy insider at the White House, DeepMind and elsewhere
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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#165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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#164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Great power conflict (Article)
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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#163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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The 80,000 Hours Career Guide (2023)
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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#162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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#161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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#160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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#159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI's massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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We now offer shorter 'interview highlights' episodes
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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#158 – Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they're no smarter than humans, and his 4-part playbook for AI risk
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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#157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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#156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Bonus: The Worst Ideas in the History of the World
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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#155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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#154 - Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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#153 – Elie Hassenfeld on 2 big picture critiques of GiveWell's approach, and 6 lessons from their recent work
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
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May 19, 2023 |
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#151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
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May 12, 2023 |
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#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
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May 05, 2023 |
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Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project (80k After Hours)
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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#149 – Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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#148 – Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fashionable ones that don't
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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#147 – Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top journals
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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#146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren't conscious
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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#145 – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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#144 – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is actually one of our universe's most fundamental phenomena
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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#79 Classic episode - A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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#81 Classic episode - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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#83 Classic episode - Jennifer Doleac on preventing crime without police and prisons
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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#143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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#142 – John McWhorter on key lessons from linguistics, the virtue of creoles, and language extinction
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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My experience with imposter syndrome — and how to (partly) overcome it (Article)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Rob's thoughts on the FTX bankruptcy
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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#140 – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn't in decline
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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#139 — Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Preventing an AI-related catastrophe (Article)
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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#138 – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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#137 – Andreas Mogensen on whether effective altruism is just for consequentialists
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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#136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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#135 – Samuel Charap on key lessons from five months of war in Ukraine
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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#134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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#133 – Max Tegmark on how a 'put-up-or-shut-up' resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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#132 – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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#131 – Lewis Dartnell on getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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#130 – Will MacAskill on balancing frugality with ambition, whether you need longtermism, & mental health under pressure
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May 23, 2022 |
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#129 – James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination
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May 09, 2022 |
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#128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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#127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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#126 – Bryan Caplan on whether lazy parenting is OK, what really helps workers, and betting on beliefs
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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#125 – Joan Rohlfing on how to avoid catastrophic nuclear blunders
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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#124 – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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#123 – Samuel Charap on why Putin invaded Ukraine, the risk of escalation, and how to prevent disaster
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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#122 – Michelle Hutchinson & Habiba Islam on balancing competing priorities and other themes from our 1-on-1 careers advising
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Introducing 80k After Hours
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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#121 – Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit's fallacy and how much military intervention can be used for good
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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#43 Classic episode - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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#35 Classic episode - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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#67 Classic episode – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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#59 Classic episode - Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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#119 – Andrew Yang on our very long-term future, and other topics most politicians won’t touch
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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#118 – Jaime Yassif on safeguarding bioscience to prevent catastrophic lab accidents and bioweapons development
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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#117 – David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe, ft Sahil Shah
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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#116 – Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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#115 – David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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#114 – Maha Rehman on working with governments to rapidly deliver masks to millions of people
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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We just put up a new compilation of ten core episodes of the show
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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#112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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#111 – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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#110 – Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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#109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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#108 – Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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#107 – Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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#106 – Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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#105 – Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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#104 – Pardis Sabeti on the Sentinel system for detecting and stopping pandemics
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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#103 – Max Roser on building the world's best source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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#102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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#101 – Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world
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May 28, 2021 |
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#100 – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome
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May 19, 2021 |
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#99 – Leah Garcés on turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken industry
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May 13, 2021 |
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#98 – Christian Tarsney on future bias and a possible solution to moral fanaticism
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May 05, 2021 |
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#97 – Mike Berkowitz on keeping the US a liberal democratic country
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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The ten episodes of this show you should listen to first
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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#96 – Nina Schick on disinformation and the rise of synthetic media
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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#95 – Kelly Wanser on whether to deliberately intervene in the climate
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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#94 – Ezra Klein on aligning journalism, politics, and what matters most
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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#93 – Andy Weber on rendering bioweapons obsolete & ending the new nuclear arms race
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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#92 – Brian Christian on the alignment problem
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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#91 – Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Rob Wiblin on how he ended up the way he is
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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#90 – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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#73 - Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good [re-release]
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours [re-release]
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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#89 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems and layers of defense against potential global catastrophes
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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#88 – Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Benjamin Todd on what the effective altruism community most needs (80k team chat #4)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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#87 – Russ Roberts on whether it's more effective to help strangers, or people you know
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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How much does a vote matter? (Article)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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#86 – Hilary Greaves on Pascal's mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for us
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Ideas for high impact careers beyond our priority paths (Article)
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Benjamin Todd on varieties of longtermism and things 80,000 Hours might be getting wrong (80k team chat #2)
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Global issues beyond 80,000 Hours’ current priorities (Article)
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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#85 - Mark Lynas on climate change, societal collapse & nuclear energy
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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#84 - Shruti Rajagopalan on what India did to stop COVID-19 and how well it worked
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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#83 - Jennifer Doleac on preventing crime without police and prisons
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Jul 31, 2020 |
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#82 - James Forman Jr on reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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#81 - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Advice on how to read our advice (Article)
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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#80 - Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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What anonymous contributors think about important life and career questions (Article)
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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#79 – A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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#78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress
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May 22, 2020 |
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#77 - Marc Lipsitch on whether we're winning or losing against COVID-19
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May 18, 2020 |
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Article: Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse, and how to avoid them
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May 12, 2020 |
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#76 - Tara Kirk Sell on misinformation, who's done well and badly, & what to reopen first
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May 08, 2020 |
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#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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#74 - Dr Greg Lewis on COVID-19 & catastrophic biological risks
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Article: Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Emergency episode: Rob & Howie on the menace of COVID-19, and what both governments & individuals might do to help
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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#73 - Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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#72 - Toby Ord on the precipice and humanity's potential futures
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Mar 07, 2020 |
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#71 - Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Arden & Rob on demandingness, work-life balance & injustice (80k team chat #1)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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#70 - Dr Cassidy Nelson on the 12 best ways to stop the next pandemic (and limit nCoV)
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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#69 – Jeffrey Ding on China, its AI dream, and what we get wrong about both
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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Rob & Howie on what we do and don't know about 2019-nCoV
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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#68 - Will MacAskill on the paralysis argument, whether we're at the hinge of history, & his new priorities
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Jan 24, 2020 |
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#44 Classic episode - Paul Christiano on finding real solutions to the AI alignment problem
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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#33 Classic episode - Anders Sandberg on cryonics, solar flares, and the annual odds of nuclear war
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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#17 Classic episode - Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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#67 – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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#66 - Peter Singer on being provocative, effective altruism, & how his moral views have changed
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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#65 - Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins on 8 years pursuing WMD arms control, & diversity in diplomacy
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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#64 – Bruce Schneier on how insecure electronic voting could break the United States — and surveillance without tyranny
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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Rob Wiblin on plastic straws, nicotine, doping, & whether changing the long-term is really possible
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Have we helped you have a bigger social impact? Our annual survey, plus other ways we can help you.
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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#63 - Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, blockchain's failures, & effective giving
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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#62 - Paul Christiano on messaging the future, increasing compute, & how CO2 impacts your brain
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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#61 - Helen Toner on emerging technology, national security, and China
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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#60 - Phil Tetlock on why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how you can do it better
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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#59 – Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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#58 - Pushmeet Kohli of DeepMind on designing robust & reliable AI systems and how to succeed in AI
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life
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May 13, 2019 |
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#57 – Tom Kalil on how to do the most good in government
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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#56 - Persis Eskander on wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about it
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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#55 - Lutter & Winter on founding charter cities with outstanding governance to end poverty
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Mar 31, 2019 |
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#54 - OpenAI on publication norms, malicious uses of AI, and general-purpose learning algorithms
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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#53 - Kelsey Piper on the room for important advocacy within journalism
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Julia Galef and Rob Wiblin on an updated view of the best ways to help humanity
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Feb 17, 2019 |
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#52 - Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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#51 - Martin Gurri on the revolt of the public & crisis of authority in the information age
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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#50 - David Denkenberger on how to feed all 8b people through an asteroid/nuclear winter
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Dec 27, 2018 |
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#49 - Rachel Glennerster on a year's worth of education for 30c & other development 'best buys'
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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#48 - Brian Christian on better living through the wisdom of computer science
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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#47 - Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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#46 - Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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#45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization & thinking long-term
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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#44 - Paul Christiano on how we'll hand the future off to AI, & solving the alignment problem
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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#43 - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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#42 - Amanda Askell on moral empathy, the value of information & the ethics of infinity
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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#41 - David Roodman on incarceration, geomagnetic storms, & becoming a world-class researcher
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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#40 - Katja Grace on forecasting future technology & how much we should trust expert predictions
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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#39 - Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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#38 - Yew-Kwang Ng on anticipating effective altruism decades ago & how to make a much happier world
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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#37 - GiveWell picks top charities by estimating the unknowable. James Snowden on how they do it.
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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#36 - Tanya Singh on ending the operations management bottleneck in effective altruism
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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#35 - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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Rob Wiblin on the art/science of a high impact career
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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#34 - We use the worst voting system that exists. Here's how Aaron Hamlin is going to fix it.
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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#33 - Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war
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May 29, 2018 |
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#32 - Bryan Caplan on whether his Case Against Education holds up, totalitarianism, & open borders
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May 22, 2018 |
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#31 - Allan Dafoe on defusing the political & economic risks posed by existing AI capabilities
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May 18, 2018 |
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#30 - Eva Vivalt on how little social science findings generalize from one study to another
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May 15, 2018 |
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#29 - Anders Sandberg on 3 new resolutions for the Fermi paradox & how to colonise the universe
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May 08, 2018 |
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#28 - Owen Cotton-Barratt on why scientists should need insurance, PhD strategy & fast AI progresses
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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#27 - Dr Tom Inglesby on careers and policies that reduce global catastrophic biological risks
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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#26 - Marie Gibbons on how exactly clean meat is made & what's needed to get it in every supermarket
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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#25 - Robin Hanson on why we have to lie to ourselves about why we do what we do
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Mar 28, 2018 |
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#24 - Stefan Schubert on why it’s a bad idea to break the rules, even if it’s for a good cause
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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#23 - How to actually become an AI alignment researcher, according to Dr Jan Leike
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Mar 16, 2018 |
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#22 - Leah Utyasheva on the non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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#21 - Holden Karnofsky on times philanthropy transformed the world & Open Phil’s plan to do the same
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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#20 - Bruce Friedrich on inventing outstanding meat substitutes to end speciesism & factory farming
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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#19 - Samantha Pitts-Kiefer on working next to the White House trying to prevent nuclear war
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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#18 - Ofir Reich on using data science to end poverty & the spurious action-inaction distinction
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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#17 - Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster
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Jan 19, 2018 |
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#16 - Michelle Hutchinson on global priorities research & shaping the ideas of intellectuals
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Dec 22, 2017 |
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#15 - Phil Tetlock on how chimps beat Berkeley undergrads and when it’s wise to defer to the wise
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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#14 - Sharon Nunez & Jose Valle on going undercover to expose animal abuse
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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#13 - Claire Walsh on testing which policies work & how to get governments to listen to the results
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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#12 - Beth Cameron works to stop you dying in a pandemic. Here’s what keeps her up at night.
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Oct 25, 2017 |
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#11 - Spencer Greenberg on speeding up social science 10-fold & why plenty of startups cause harm
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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#10 - Nick Beckstead on how to spend billions of dollars preventing human extinction
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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#9 - Christine Peterson on how insecure computers could lead to global disaster, and how to fix it
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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#8 - Lewis Bollard on how to end factory farming in our lifetimes
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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#7 - Julia Galef on making humanity more rational, what EA does wrong, and why Twitter isn’t all bad
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Sep 13, 2017 |
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#6 - Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it
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Sep 06, 2017 |
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#5 - Alex Gordon-Brown on how to donate millions in your 20s working in quantitative trading
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Aug 28, 2017 |
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#4 - Howie Lempel on pandemics that kill hundreds of millions and how to stop them
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Aug 23, 2017 |
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#3 - Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill
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Jul 21, 2017 |
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#2 - David Spiegelhalter on risk, stats and improving understanding of science
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Jun 21, 2017 |
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#1 - Miles Brundage on the world's desperate need for AI strategists and policy experts
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Jun 05, 2017 |
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#0 – Introducing the 80,000 Hours Podcast
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May 01, 2017 |