80,000 Hours Podcast
Rob, Luisa, and the 80000 Hours team
EN500 episodes
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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.Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.
Episodes (500)
#145 – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable
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#144 – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is actually one of our universe's most funda...
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#79 Classic episode - A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible,...
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#81 Classic episode - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments
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Jan 9, 20232:37:11pending
#83 Classic episode - Jennifer Doleac on preventing crime without police and pri...
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Jan 4, 20232:17:46pending
#143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons
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#142 – John McWhorter on key lessons from linguistics, the virtue of creoles, an...
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Dec 20, 20221:47:54pending
#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the fu...
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Dec 13, 20222:44:19pending
My experience with imposter syndrome — and how to (partly) overcome it (Article)
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Dec 8, 202244:05pending
Rob's thoughts on the FTX bankruptcy
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#140 – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn't in decline
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Nov 8, 20222:47:06pending
#139 – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value
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Oct 28, 20223:38:26pending
Preventing an AI-related catastrophe (Article)
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#138 – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that...
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Sep 30, 20222:24:20pending
#137 – Andreas Mogensen on whether effective altruism is just for consequentiali...
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#136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future
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#135 – Samuel Charap on key lessons from five months of war in Ukraine
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#134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
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Jul 22, 20223:41:07pending
#133 – Max Tegmark on how a 'put-up-or-shut-up' resolution led him to work on AI...
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Jul 1, 20222:57:51pending
#132 – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe dev...
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Jun 14, 20222:42:27pending
#131 – Lewis Dartnell on getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocal...
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Jun 3, 20221:05:42pending
#130 – Will MacAskill on balancing frugality with ambition, whether you need lon...
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May 23, 20222:16:41pending
#129 – James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and eliminat...
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May 9, 20223:19:36pending
#128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen
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Apr 28, 20222:46:51pending
#127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good
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Apr 14, 20223:20:28pending
#126 – Bryan Caplan on whether lazy parenting is OK, what really helps workers,...
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Apr 5, 20222:15:16pending
#125 – Joan Rohlfing on how to avoid catastrophic nuclear blunders
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Mar 29, 20222:13:42pending
#124 – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and s...
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Mar 21, 20223:09:53pending
#123 – Samuel Charap on why Putin invaded Ukraine, the risk of escalation, and h...
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Mar 14, 202259:17pending
#122 – Michelle Hutchinson & Habiba Islam on balancing competing priorities and...
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Mar 9, 20221:36:26pending
Introducing 80k After Hours
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Mar 1, 202213:31pending
#121 – Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit's fallacy and how much military i...
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Feb 16, 20223:04:18pending
#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do...
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Feb 2, 20222:05:51pending
#43 Classic episode - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintai...
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Jan 18, 20222:35:28pending
#35 Classic episode - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without as...
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Jan 10, 20221:23:34pending
#67 Classic episode – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness
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#59 Classic episode - Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often...
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Dec 27, 20211:43:05pending
#119 – Andrew Yang on our very long-term future, and other topics most politicia...
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Dec 20, 20211:25:57pending
#118 – Jaime Yassif on safeguarding bioscience to prevent catastrophic lab accid...
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Dec 13, 20212:15:40pending
#117 – David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a...
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Nov 29, 20213:08:13pending
#116 – Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all
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Nov 19, 20213:45:44pending
#115 – David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its impl...
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Nov 12, 20213:09:47pending
#114 – Maha Rehman on working with governments to rapidly deliver masks to milli...
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Oct 22, 20211:42:55pending
We just put up a new compilation of ten core episodes of the show
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#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India
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Oct 18, 20212:05:44pending
#112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its p...
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Oct 5, 20213:48:40pending
#111 – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective govern...
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Sep 10, 20213:20:26pending
#110 – Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
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Aug 26, 20212:46:06pending
#109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
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#108 – Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
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