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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)

#107 – Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks

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#106 – Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work

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Jul 28, 20211:53:27pending

#105 – Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and di...

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Jul 12, 20212:54:32pending

#104 – Pardis Sabeti on the Sentinel system for detecting and stopping pandemics

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Jun 29, 20212:20:58pending

#103 – Max Roser on building the world's best source of COVID-19 data at Our Wor...

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Jun 21, 20212:22:25pending

#102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest prioriti...

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Jun 11, 20213:56:44pending

#101 – Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world

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May 28, 20211:36:00pending

#100 – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome

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May 19, 20212:51:21pending

#99 – Leah Garcés on turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken indus...

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May 13, 20212:26:04pending

#98 – Christian Tarsney on future bias and a possible solution to moral fanatici...

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May 5, 20212:38:22pending

#97 – Mike Berkowitz on keeping the US a liberal democratic country

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The ten episodes of this show you should listen to first

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#96 – Nina Schick on disinformation and the rise of synthetic media

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Apr 6, 20212:00:04pending

#95 – Kelly Wanser on whether to deliberately intervene in the climate

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Mar 26, 20211:24:08pending

#94 – Ezra Klein on aligning journalism, politics, and what matters most

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Mar 20, 20211:45:21pending

#93 – Andy Weber on rendering bioweapons obsolete & ending the new nuclear arms...

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Mar 12, 20211:54:21pending

#92 – Brian Christian on the alignment problem

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Mar 5, 20212:55:46pending

#91 – Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened

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Feb 15, 20212:33:17pending

Rob Wiblin on how he ended up the way he is

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Feb 3, 20211:57:57pending

#90 – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be

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Jan 21, 20212:59:05pending

Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics

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Jan 13, 20212:30:37pending

#73 - Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good [re-release]

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#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours [re-release...

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#89 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems and layers of defense against pot...

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Dec 17, 20202:38:12pending

#88 – Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media compan...

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Dec 3, 20202:35:39pending

Benjamin Todd on what the effective altruism community most needs (80k team chat...

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Nov 12, 20201:25:21pending

#87 – Russ Roberts on whether it's more effective to help strangers, or people y...

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Nov 3, 20201:49:36pending

How much does a vote matter? (Article)

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Oct 29, 202031:14pending

#86 – Hilary Greaves on Pascal's mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existi...

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Oct 21, 20202:24:54pending

Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k tea...

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Sep 22, 20201:24:07pending

Ideas for high impact careers beyond our priority paths (Article)

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Sep 7, 202027:54pending

Benjamin Todd on varieties of longtermism and things 80,000 Hours might be getti...

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Sep 1, 202057:51pending

Global issues beyond 80,000 Hours’ current priorities (Article)

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Aug 28, 202032:54pending

#85 - Mark Lynas on climate change, societal collapse & nuclear energy

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Aug 20, 20202:08:26pending

#84 – Shruti Rajagopalan on what India did to stop COVID-19 and how well it work...

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Aug 13, 20202:58:14pending

#83 - Jennifer Doleac on preventing crime without police and prisons

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Jul 31, 20202:23:03pending

#82 – James Forman Jr on reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system

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Jul 27, 20201:28:08pending

#81 - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments

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Jul 9, 20202:38:28pending

Advice on how to read our advice (Article)

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Jun 29, 202015:23pending

#80 – Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it

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Jun 22, 20202:13:17pending

What anonymous contributors think about important life and career questions (Art...

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Jun 5, 202037:10pending

#79 – A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing g...

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Jun 1, 20202:38:47pending

#78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress

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May 22, 20202:11:37pending

#77 – Marc Lipsitch on whether we're winning or losing against COVID-19

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May 18, 20201:37:05pending

Article: Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse, and how t...

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May 12, 202026:46pending

#76 – Tara Kirk Sell on misinformation, who's done well and badly, & what to reo...

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May 8, 20201:53:00pending

#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours

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Apr 28, 20202:13:06pending

#74 – Dr Greg Lewis on COVID-19 & catastrophic biological risks

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Apr 17, 20202:37:17pending

Article: Reducing global catastrophic biological risks

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Apr 15, 20201:04:15pending

Emergency episode: Rob & Howie on the menace of COVID-19, and what both governme...

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Mar 19, 20201:52:12pending
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