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The 80,000 Hours Podcast with Robert Wiblin
https://80000hours.org
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Advice on how to use your career to help solve the world’s most pressing problems. Hosted by Robert Wiblin, Director of Research at 80,000 Hours.

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The ten episodes of this show you should listen to first
Durée : 3min 2s
#96 – Nina Schick on disinformation and the rise of synthetic media
Durée : 2h 0min 3s
#95 – Kelly Wanser on whether to deliberately intervene in the climate
Durée : 1h 24min 7s
#94 – Ezra Klein on aligning journalism, politics, and what matters most
Durée : 1h 45min 20s
#93 – Andy Weber on rendering bioweapons obsolete & ending the new nuclear arms race
Durée : 1h 54min 20s
#92 – Brian Christian on the alignment problem
Durée : 2h 55min 45s
#91 – Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
Durée : 2h 33min 16s
Rob Wiblin on how he ended up the way he is
Durée : 1h 57min 56s
#90 – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be
Durée : 2h 59min 4s
Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics
Durée : 2h 30min 36s
#73 - Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good [re-release]
Durée : 2h 41min 5s
#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours [re-release]
Durée : 2h 14min 49s
#89 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems and layers of defense against potential global catas…
Durée : 2h 38min 11s
#88 – Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies
Durée : 2h 35min 38s
Benjamin Todd on what the effective altruism community most needs (80k team chat #4)
Durée : 1h 25min 20s
#87 – Russ Roberts on whether it's more effective to help strangers, or people you know
Durée : 1h 49min 35s
How much does a vote matter? (Article)
Durée : 31min 13s
#86 – Hilary Greaves on Pascal's mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for …
Durée : 2h 24min 53s
Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)
Durée : 1h 24min 6s
Ideas for high impact careers beyond our priority paths (Article)
Durée : 27min 53s
Benjamin Todd on varieties of longtermism and things 80,000 Hours might be getting wrong (80k team …
Durée : 57min 50s
Global issues beyond 80,000 Hours’ current priorities (Article)
Durée : 32min 53s
#85 - Mark Lynas on climate change, societal collapse & nuclear energy
Durée : 2h 8min 25s
#84 - Shruti Rajagopalan on what India did to stop COVID-19 and how well it worked
Durée : 2h 58min 13s
#83 - Prof Jennifer Doleac on preventing crime without police and prisons
Durée : 2h 23min 2s
#82 - James Forman Jr on reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system
Durée : 1h 28min 6s
#82 - Prof James Forman Jr on reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system
Durée : 1h 28min 7s
#81 - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments
Durée : 2h 38min 20s
#81 - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments
Durée : 2h 38min 27s
Advice on how to read our advice (Article)
Durée : 15min 22s
#80 - Professor Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it
Durée : 2h 13min 16s
What anonymous contributors think about important life and career questions (Article)
Durée : 37min 9s
#79 - A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as p…
Durée : 2h 38min 46s
#78 - Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress
Durée : 2h 11min 36s
#77 - Professor Marc Lipsitch on whether we're winning or losing against COVID-19
Durée : 1h 37min 4s
Article: Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse, and how to avoid them
Durée : 26min 45s
#76 - Prof Tara Kirk Sell on misinformation, who's done well and badly, & what to reopen first
Durée : 1h 52min 59s
#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours
Durée : 2h 13min 5s
#74 - Dr Greg Lewis on COVID-19 & catastrophic biological risks
Durée : 2h 37min 16s
Article: Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
Durée : 1h 4min 14s
Emergency episode: Rob & Howie on the menace of COVID-19, and what both governments & individuals m…
Durée : 1h 52min 11s
#73 - Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good
Durée : 2h 35min 21s
#72 - Toby Ord on the precipice and humanity's potential futures
Durée : 3h 14min 16s
#71 - Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours
Durée : 2h 57min 28s
Arden & Rob on demandingness, work-life balance & injustice (80k team chat #1)
Durée : 44min 11s
#70 - Dr Cassidy Nelson on the 12 best ways to stop the next pandemic (and limit nCoV)
Durée : 2h 26min 32s
#69 - Jeff Ding on China, its AI dream, and what we get wrong about both
Durée : 1h 37min 13s
Rob & Howie on what we do and don't know about 2019-nCoV
Durée : 1h 18min 54s
Rob & Howie on what we do and don't know about 2019-nCoV
Durée : 1h 18min 43s
#68 - Will MacAskill on the paralysis argument, whether we're at the hinge of history, & his new pr…
Durée : 3h 25min 35s
#44 Classic episode - Paul Christiano on finding real solutions to the AI alignment problem
Durée : 3h 51min 13s
#33 Classic episode - Anders Sandberg on cryonics, solar flares, and the annual odds of nuclear war
Durée : 1h 25min 10s
#17 Classic episode - Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being…
Durée : 1h 52min 38s
#46 Classic episode - Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia
Durée : 2h 49min 12s
#67 - Prof David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness
Durée : 4h 41min 49s
#66 - Prof Peter Singer on being provocative, effective altruism, & how his moral views have changed
Durée : 2h 1min 20s
#65 - Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins on 8 years pursuing WMD arms control, & diversity in diplomacy
Durée : 1h 40min 31s
#64 - Bruce Schneier on surveillance without tyranny, secrets, & the big risks in computer security
Durée : 2h 11min 3s
Rob Wiblin on plastic straws, nicotine, doping, & whether changing the long-term is really possible
Durée : 3h 14min 32s
Have we helped you have a bigger social impact? Our annual survey, plus other ways we can help you.
Durée : 3min 38s
#63 - Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, blockchain's failures, & effective giving
Durée : 3h 18min 9s
#63 - Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, blockchain's failures, & effective giving
Durée : 3h 18min 23s
#62 - Paul Christiano on messaging the future, increasing compute, & how CO2 impacts your brain
Durée : 2h 11min 46s
#61 - Helen Toner on emerging technology, national security, and China
Durée : 1h 54min 56s
#60 - Prof Tetlock on why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how you can do it better
Durée : 2h 11min 38s
#59 - Prof Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable
Durée : 1h 43min 23s
#58 - Pushmeet Kohli of DeepMind on designing robust & reliable AI systems and how to succeed in AI
Durée : 1h 30min 13s
#58 - Pushmeet Kohli of DeepMind on designing robust & reliable AI systems and how to succeed in AI
Durée : 1h 30min 11s
Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life
Durée : 2h 18min 24s
#57 - Tom Kalil on how to do the most good in government
Durée : 2h 50min 15s
#56 - Persis Eskander on wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about it
Durée : 2h 57min 57s
#55 - Lutter & Winter on founding charter cities with outstanding governance to end poverty
Durée : 2h 31min 13s
#54 - OpenAI on publication norms, malicious uses of AI, and general-purpose learning algorithms
Durée : 2h 53min 39s
#53 - Kelsey Piper on the room for important advocacy within journalism
Durée : 2h 34min 30s
Julia Galef and Rob Wiblin on an updated view of the best ways to help humanity
Durée : 56min 45s
#52 - Prof Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society
Durée : 2h 44min 28s
#52 - Prof Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society
Durée : 2h 44min 26s
#10 Classic episode - Dr Nick Beckstead on spending billions of dollars preventing human extinction
Durée : 1h 52min 4s
#51 - Martin Gurri on the revolt of the public & crisis of authority in the information age
Durée : 2h 31min 10s
#8 Classic episode - Lewis Bollard on how to end factory farming in our lifetimes
Durée : 3h 14min 53s
#9 Classic episode - Christine Peterson on the '80s futurist movement & its lessons for today
Durée : 1h 19min 40s
#50 - Dr David Denkenberger on how to feed all 8b people through an asteroid/nuclear winter
Durée : 2h 57min 3s
#49 - Dr Rachel Glennerster on a year's worth of education for 30c & other development 'best buys'
Durée : 1h 34min 12s
#49 - Dr Rachel Glennerster on a year's worth of education for 30c & other development 'best buys'
Durée : 1h 35min 41s
#6 Classic episode - Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else
Durée : 2h 13min 37s
#6 Classic episode - Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else
Durée : 2h 10min 23s
#15 Classic episode - Prof Tetlock on chimps beating Berkeley undergrads & when to defer to the wise
Durée : 1h 24min 9s
#48 - Brian Christian on better living through the wisdom of computer science
Durée : 3h 15min 29s
#47 - Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles
Durée : 2h 4min 49s
#46 - Prof Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness & tackling crucial questions in academia
Durée : 2h 49min 12s
#45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization & thinking long-term
Durée : 2h 30min 46s
#45 - Tyler Cowen's case for maximising econ growth, stabilising civilization & thinking long-term
Durée : 2h 30min 40s
#44 - Dr Paul Christiano on how we'll hand the future off to AI, & solving the alignment problem
Durée : 3h 51min 50s
#43 - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines
Durée : 2h 44min 1s
#43 - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines
Durée : 2h 44min 27s
#42 - Dr Amanda Askell on moral empathy, the value of information & the ethics of infinity
Durée : 2h 46min 28s
#41 - David Roodman on incarceration, geomagnetic storms, & becoming a world-class researcher
Durée : 2h 18min 0s
#40 - Katja Grace on forecasting future technology & how much we should trust expert predictions
Durée : 2h 10min 59s
#40 - Katja Grace on forecasting future technology & how much we should trust expert predictions
Durée : 2h 11min 17s
#39 - Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions
Durée : 2h 17min 10s

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