80,000 Hours Podcast
A podcast by The 80000 Hours team
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198 Episodes
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#67 Classic episode – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness
Published: 03/01/2022 -
#59 Classic episode - Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable
Published: 27/12/2021 -
#119 – Andrew Yang on our very long-term future, and other topics most politicians won’t touch
Published: 20/12/2021 -
#118 – Jaime Yassif on safeguarding bioscience to prevent catastrophic lab accidents and bioweapons development
Published: 13/12/2021 -
#117 – David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe, ft Sahil Shah
Published: 29/11/2021 -
#116 – Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all
Published: 19/11/2021 -
#115 – David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications
Published: 12/11/2021 -
#114 – Maha Rehman on working with governments to rapidly deliver masks to millions of people
Published: 22/10/2021 -
We just put up a new compilation of ten core episodes of the show
Published: 20/10/2021 -
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India
Published: 18/10/2021 -
#112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
Published: 05/10/2021 -
#111 – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms
Published: 10/09/2021 -
#110 – Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
Published: 26/08/2021 -
#109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
Published: 19/08/2021 -
#108 – Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
Published: 11/08/2021 -
#107 – Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks
Published: 04/08/2021 -
#106 – Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work
Published: 28/07/2021 -
#105 – Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
Published: 12/07/2021 -
#104 – Pardis Sabeti on the Sentinel system for detecting and stopping pandemics
Published: 29/06/2021 -
#103 – Max Roser on building the world's best source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data
Published: 21/06/2021
Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them. Subscribe by searching for '80,000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Produced by Keiran Harris. Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.