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80,000 Hours Podcast

Rob, Luisa, and the 80000 Hours team

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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)

#73 – Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good

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Mar 17, 20202:35:22pending

#72 - Toby Ord on the precipice and humanity's potential futures

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Mar 7, 20203:14:17pending

#71 - Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours

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Mar 2, 20202:57:29pending

Arden & Rob on demandingness, work-life balance & injustice (80k team chat #1)

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Feb 25, 202044:12pending

#70 - Dr Cassidy Nelson on the 12 best ways to stop the next pandemic (and limit...

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Feb 13, 20202:26:33pending

#69 – Jeffrey Ding on China, its AI dream, and what we get wrong about both

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Feb 6, 20201:37:14pending

Rob & Howie on what we do and don't know about 2019-nCoV

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Feb 3, 20201:18:44pending

#68 - Will MacAskill on the paralysis argument, whether we're at the hinge of hi...

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Jan 24, 20203:25:36pending

#44 Classic episode - Paul Christiano on finding real solutions to the AI alignm...

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Jan 15, 20203:51:14pending

#33 Classic episode - Anders Sandberg on cryonics, solar flares, and the annual...

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Jan 8, 20201:25:11pending

#17 Classic episode - Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how...

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Dec 31, 20191:52:39pending

#67 – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness

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Dec 16, 20194:41:50pending

#66 – Peter Singer on being provocative, effective altruism, & how his moral vie...

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Dec 5, 20192:01:21pending

#65 – Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins on 8 years pursuing WMD arms control, & diversit...

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Nov 19, 20191:40:32pending

#64 – Bruce Schneier on how insecure electronic voting could break the United St...

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Oct 25, 20192:11:04pending

Rob Wiblin on plastic straws, nicotine, doping, & whether changing the long-term...

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Sep 25, 20193:14:33pending

Have we helped you have a bigger social impact? Our annual survey, plus other wa...

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Sep 16, 20193:39pending

#63 – Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, blockchain's failures...

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Sep 3, 20193:18:24pending

#62 – Paul Christiano on messaging the future, increasing compute, & how CO2 imp...

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Aug 5, 20192:11:47pending

#61 - Helen Toner on emerging technology, national security, and China

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Jul 17, 20191:54:57pending

#60 - Phil Tetlock on why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how y...

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Jun 28, 20192:11:39pending

#59 – Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpred...

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Jun 17, 20191:43:24pending

#58 – Pushmeet Kohli of DeepMind on designing robust & reliable AI systems and h...

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Jun 3, 20191:30:12pending

Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethica...

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May 13, 20192:18:25pending

#57 – Tom Kalil on how to do the most good in government

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Apr 23, 20192:50:16pending

#56 - Persis Eskander on wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about...

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Apr 15, 20192:57:58pending

#55 – Lutter & Winter on founding charter cities with outstanding governance to...

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Mar 31, 20192:31:14pending

#54 – OpenAI on publication norms, malicious uses of AI, and general-purpose lea...

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Mar 19, 20192:53:40pending

#53 - Kelsey Piper on the room for important advocacy within journalism

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Feb 27, 20192:34:31pending

Julia Galef and Rob Wiblin on an updated view of the best ways to help humanity

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Feb 17, 201956:46pending

#52 - Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society

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Feb 8, 20192:44:27pending

#51 - Martin Gurri on the revolt of the public & crisis of authority in the info...

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Jan 29, 20192:31:11pending

#50 - David Denkenberger on how to feed all 8b people through an asteroid/nuclea...

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Dec 27, 20182:57:15pending

#49 - Rachel Glennerster on a year's worth of education for 30c & other developm...

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Dec 20, 20181:35:42pending

#48 - Brian Christian on better living through the wisdom of computer science

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Nov 22, 20183:15:30pending

#47 - Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML eng...

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Nov 2, 20182:04:50pending

#46 - Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in acade...

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Oct 23, 20182:49:24pending

#45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization &...

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Oct 17, 20182:30:41pending

#44 - Paul Christiano on how we'll hand the future off to AI, & solving the alig...

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Oct 2, 20183:51:51pending

#43 - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear dooms...

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Sep 25, 20182:44:28pending

#42 - Amanda Askell on moral empathy, the value of information & the ethics of i...

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Sep 11, 20182:46:29pending

#41 - David Roodman on incarceration, geomagnetic storms, & becoming a world-cla...

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Aug 28, 20182:18:01pending

#40 - Katja Grace on forecasting future technology & how much we should trust ex...

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Aug 21, 20182:11:18pending

#39 - Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday...

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Aug 7, 20182:17:30pending

#38 - Yew-Kwang Ng on anticipating effective altruism decades ago & how to make...

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Jul 26, 20181:59:30pending

#37 - GiveWell picks top charities by estimating the unknowable. James Snowden o...

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Jul 16, 20181:44:07pending

#36 - Tanya Singh on ending the operations management bottleneck in effective al...

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Jul 11, 20182:04:33pending

#35 - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission

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Jun 21, 20181:22:35pending

Rob Wiblin on the art/science of a high impact career

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Jun 8, 20181:31:35pending

#34 - We use the worst voting system that exists. Here's how Aaron Hamlin is goi...

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