80,000 Hours Podcast

198 Episodes

1. #34 - We use the worst voting system that exists. Here's how Aaron Hamlin is going to fix it.

   Published: 01/06/2018
2. #33 - Dr Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war

   Published: 29/05/2018
3. #32 - Bryan Caplan on whether his Case Against Education holds up, totalitarianism, & open borders

   Published: 22/05/2018
4. #31 - Prof Dafoe on defusing the political & economic risks posed by existing AI capabilities

   Published: 18/05/2018
5. #30 - Dr Eva Vivalt on how little social science findings generalize from one study to another

   Published: 15/05/2018
6. #29 - Dr Anders Sandberg on 3 new resolutions for the Fermi paradox & how to colonise the universe

   Published: 08/05/2018
7. #28 - Dr Cotton-Barratt on why scientists should need insurance, PhD strategy & fast AI progresses

   Published: 27/04/2018
8. #27 - Dr Tom Inglesby on careers and policies that reduce global catastrophic biological risks

   Published: 18/04/2018
9. #26 - Marie Gibbons on how exactly clean meat is made & what's needed to get it in every supermarket

   Published: 10/04/2018
10. #25 - Prof Robin Hanson on why we have to lie to ourselves about why we do what we do

    Published: 28/03/2018
11. #24 - Stefan Schubert on why it’s a bad idea to break the rules, even if it’s for a good cause

    Published: 20/03/2018
12. #23 - How to actually become an AI alignment researcher, according to Dr Jan Leike

    Published: 16/03/2018
13. #22 - Dr Leah Utyasheva on the non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates

    Published: 07/03/2018
14. #21 - Holden Karnofsky on times philanthropy transformed the world & Open Phil’s plan to do the same

    Published: 27/02/2018
15. #20 - Bruce Friedrich on inventing outstanding meat substitutes to end speciesism & factory farming

    Published: 19/02/2018
16. #19 - Samantha Pitts-Kiefer on working next to the White House trying to prevent nuclear war

    Published: 14/02/2018
17. #18 - Ofir Reich on using data science to end poverty & the spurious action-inaction distinction

    Published: 31/01/2018
18. #17 - Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster

    Published: 19/01/2018
19. #16 - Dr Hutchinson on global priorities research & shaping the ideas of intellectuals

    Published: 22/12/2017
20. #15 - Prof Tetlock on how chimps beat Berkeley undergrads and when it’s wise to defer to the wise

    Published: 20/11/2017