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2024

November

#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world
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#207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more founders should follow her lead
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Bonus episode: Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests
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#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness
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October

#205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do
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#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism
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#203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation
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September

#202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science
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#201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn't here yet
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#200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks
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August

#199 – Nathan Calvin on California's AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy
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#198 – Meghan Barrett on challenging our assumptions about insects
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#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic's AI safety policy is up to the task
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#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter
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#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them
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July

#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government
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#193 – Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war
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#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US
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#191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI
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June

#191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
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#190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious
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May

#189 – Rachel Glennerster on how "market shaping" could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems
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#188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good
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#187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a "space bastard"
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#186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives
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April

#185 – Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals
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#184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT
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March

#183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more
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#182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more
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#181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond
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February

#180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated
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#179 – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety
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#178 – Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting
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January

#177 – Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps
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2023

December

#176 – Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI's leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models
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#175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child
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#174 – Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate workers
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November

#173 – Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe
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#172 – Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news
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#171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures
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#170 – Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down
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October

#169 – Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels
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#168 – Ian Morris on whether deep history says we're heading for an intelligence explosion
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#167 – Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption
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#166 – Tantum Collins on what he's learned as an AI policy insider at the White House, DeepMind and elsewhere
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#165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe
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#164 – Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives
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September

#163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do
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#162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI
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August

#161 – Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite
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#160 – Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment
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#159 – Jan Leike on OpenAI's massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less
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July

#158 – Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they're no smarter than humans, and his 4-part playbook for AI risk
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#157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it
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#156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models
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June

#155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after
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#154 – Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters
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#153 – Elie Hassenfeld on two big picture critiques of GiveWell's approach, and six lessons from their recent work
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May

#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
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#151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
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#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
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April

#149 – Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating
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#148 – Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fashionable ones that don't
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March

#147 – Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top journals
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#146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren't conscious
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February

#145 – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable
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January

#144 – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is actually one of the fundamental phenomena in our universe
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2022

December

#143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons
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#142 – John McWhorter on key lessons from linguistics, the virtue of creoles, and language extinction
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#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well
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November

#140 – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn't in decline
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October

#139 – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value
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September

#138 – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter
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#137 – Andreas Mogensen on whether effective altruism is just for consequentialists
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August

#136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future
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#135 – Samuel Charap on key lessons from five months of war in Ukraine
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July

#134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
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#133 – Max Tegmark on how a 'put-up-or-shut-up' resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection
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June

#132 – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems
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#131 – Lewis Dartnell on getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world
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May

#130 – Will MacAskill on balancing frugality with ambition, whether you need longtermism, & mental health under pressure
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#129 – Dr James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination
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April

#128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen
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#127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good
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#126 – Bryan Caplan on whether lazy parenting is OK, what really helps workers, and betting on beliefs
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March

#125 – Joan Rohlfing on how to avoid catastrophic nuclear blunders
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#124 – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions
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#123 – Samuel Charap on why Putin invaded Ukraine, the risk of escalation, and how to prevent disaster
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#122 – Michelle Hutchinson & Habiba Islam on balancing competing priorities and other themes from our 1-on-1 careers advising
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February

#121 – Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit's fallacy and how much military intervention can be used for good
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#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan's experiments with how to do democracy
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2021

December

#119 – Andrew Yang on our very long-term future, and other topics most politicians won't touch
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#118 – Jaime Yassif on safeguarding bioscience to prevent catastrophic lab accidents and bioweapons development
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November

#117 – David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe, ft Sahil Shah
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#116 – Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all
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#115 – David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications
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October

#114 – Maha Rehman on working with governments to rapidly deliver masks to millions of people
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#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India
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#112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
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September

#111 – Mushtaq Khan on how mainstream economics gets corruption and good governance all wrong
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August

#110 – Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
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#109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
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#108 – Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
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#107 – Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks
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July

#106 – Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work
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#105 – Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
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June

#104 – Dr Pardis Sabeti on the Sentinel system for detecting and stopping pandemics
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#103 – Max Roser on building the world's first great source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data
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#102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all
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May

#101 – Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world
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#100 – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome
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#99 – Leah Garcés on turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken industry
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#98 – Christian Tarsney on future bias and a possible solution to moral fanaticism
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April

#97 – Mike Berkowitz on keeping the U.S. a liberal democratic country
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#96 – Nina Schick on disinformation and the rise of synthetic media
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March

#95 – Kelly Wanser on whether to deliberately intervene in the climate
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#94 – Ezra Klein on aligning journalism, politics, and what matters most
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#93 – Andy Weber on rendering bioweapons obsolete & ending the new nuclear arms race
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#92 – Brian Christian on the alignment problem
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February

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

#90 – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be
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2020

December

#89 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems & layers of defense against potential global catastrophes
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#88 – Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies
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November

Benjamin Todd on what the effective altruism community most needs (80k team chat #4)
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#87 – Russ Roberts on whether it's more effective to help strangers, or people you know
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October

#86 – Hilary Greaves on Pascal's mugging, strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for us
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September

Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)
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Benjamin Todd on varieties of longtermism and things 80,000 Hours might be getting wrong (80k team chat #2)
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August

#85 – Mark Lynas on climate change, societal collapse & nuclear energy
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#84 – Shruti Rajagopalan on what India did to stop COVID-19 and how well it worked
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July

#83 – Jennifer Doleac on ways to prevent crime other than police and prisons
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#82 – James Forman Jr on reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system
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#81 – Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments
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June

#80 – Professor Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it
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#79 – A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles
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May

#78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and measuring some of the most important drivers of AI progress
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#77 – Marc Lipsitch on whether we're winning or losing against COVID-19
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#76 – Tara Kirk Sell on COVID-19 misinformation, who's over and under-performed, and what we can reopen first
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April

#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours
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#74 – Dr Greg Lewis on COVID-19 & catastrophic biological risks
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March

Emergency episode: Rob & Howie on the menace of COVID-19, and what both governments & individuals might do to help
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#73 – Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good
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#72 – Toby Ord on the precipice and humanity's potential futures
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#71 – Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours
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February

Arden & Rob on demandingness, work-life balance and injustice (80k team chat #1)
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#70 – Dr Cassidy Nelson on the twelve best ways to stop the next pandemic (and limit COVID-19)
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#69 – Jeffrey Ding on China, its AI dream, and what we get wrong about both
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Bonus episode: What we do and don't know about the 2019-nCoV coronavirus
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January

#68 – Will MacAskill on the paralysis argument, whether we're at the hinge of history, & his new priorities
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2019

December

#67 – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness
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#66 – Peter Singer on provocative advocacy, EA, how his ethical views have changed, and drowning children
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November

#65 – Amb. Bonnie Jenkins on 8 years pursuing WMD arms control, & diversity in diplomacy
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October

#64 – Bruce Schneier on how insecure electronic voting could break the United States — and surveillance without tyranny
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September

Rob Wiblin on plastic straws, nicotine, doping, & whether changing the long term is really possible
Podcast
#63 – Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, blockchain's failures, & effective giving
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August

#62 – Paul Christiano on messaging the future, increasing compute, & how CO2 impacts your brain
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July

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

#60 – Prof Tetlock on why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how you can do it better
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#59 – Cass Sunstein on how social change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable
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#58 – Pushmeet Kohli of DeepMind on designing robust & reliable AI systems and how to succeed in AI
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April

#57 – Tom Kalil on how to do the most good in government
Podcast
#56 – Persis Eskander on wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about it
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March

#55 – Mark Lutter & Tamara Winter on founding charter cities with outstanding governance to end poverty
Podcast
#54 – Askell, Brundage & Clark from OpenAI on publication norms, malicious uses of AI, and general-purpose learning algorithms
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February

#53 – Kelsey Piper on the room for important advocacy within journalism
Podcast
#52 – Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society
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January

#51 – Martin Gurri on the revolt of the public & crisis of authority in the information age
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2018

December

#50 – David Denkenberger on how to feed all 8 billion people through an asteroid/nuclear winter
Podcast
#49 – Rachel Glennerster on a year's worth of education for under $1 and other development best buys
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November

#48 – Brian Christian on better living through the wisdom of computer science
Podcast
#47 – Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles
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October

#46 – Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions
Podcast
#45 – Tyler Cowen's stubborn attachments to maximising economic growth, making civilization more stable & respecting human rights
Podcast
#44 – Paul Christiano on how OpenAI is developing real solutions to the 'AI alignment problem', and his vision of how humanity will progressively hand over decision-making to AI systems
Podcast

September

#43 – Daniel Ellsberg on the creation of nuclear doomsday machines, the institutional insanity that maintains them, & how they could be dismantled
Podcast
#42 – Amanda Askell on moral empathy, the value of information & the ethics of infinity
Podcast

August

#41 – David Roodman on incarceration, geomagnetic storms, & becoming a world-class researcher
Podcast
#40 – Katja Grace on forecasting future technology & how much we should trust expert predictions.
Podcast
#39 – Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions.
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July

#38 – Yew-Kwang Ng on anticipating EA decades ago & how to make a much happier world
Podcast
#37 – GiveWell picks top charities by estimating the unknowable. James Snowden on how they do it.
Podcast
#36 – Tanya Singh on ending the operations management bottleneck in effective altruism
Podcast

June

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

#34 – We use the worst voting system that exists. Here's how Aaron Hamlin is going to fix it.
Podcast
#33 – Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war
Podcast
#32 – Bryan Caplan on whether the Case Against Education holds up, totalitarianism, & open borders
Podcast
#31 – Allan Dafoe on defusing the political and economic risks posed by existing AI capabilities
Podcast
#30 – Eva Vivalt on how little social science findings generalize from one study to another
Podcast
#29 – Anders Sandberg on three new resolutions for the Fermi Paradox and how to easily colonise the universe
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April

#28 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on why scientists should need insurance, PhD strategy & what if AI progresses fast
Podcast
#27 – Dr Tom Inglesby on how to prevent global catastrophic biological risks
Podcast
#26 – Marie Gibbons on how exactly clean meat is created & the advances needed to get it in every supermarket
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March

#25 – Robin Hanson on why we have to lie to ourselves about why we do what we do
Podcast
#24 – Stefan Schubert on why it's a bad idea to break the rules, even if it's for a good cause
Podcast
#23 – How to actually become an AI alignment researcher, according to Jan Leike
Podcast
#22 – Leah Utyasheva on the nonprofit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates
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February

#21 – Holden Karnofsky on times philanthropy transformed the world & Open Phil's plan to do the same
Podcast
#20 – Bruce Friedrich on inventing outstanding meat substitutes to end speciesism & factory farming
Podcast
#19 – Samantha Pitts-Kiefer on working next to the White House trying to prevent nuclear war
Podcast

January

#18 – Ofir Reich on using data science to end poverty & the spurious action-inaction distinction
Podcast
#17 – Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster
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2017

December

#16 – Michelle Hutchinson on global priorities research & shaping the ideas of intellectuals
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