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- Anders Sandberg
- #165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe
- #33 – Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war
- #29 – Anders Sandberg on three new resolutions for the Fermi Paradox and how to easily colonise the universe
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- Athena Aktipis
- Audrey Tang
- Bear Braumoeller
- Ben Garfinkel
- Benjamin Todd
- Benjamin Todd on what the effective altruism community most needs (80k team chat #4)
- Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)
- Benjamin Todd on varieties of longtermism and things 80,000 Hours might be getting wrong (80k team chat #2)
- #71 – Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours
- Beth Cameron
- Bob Fischer
- Bonnie Jenkins
- Brian Christian
- Bruce Friedrich
- Bruce Schneier
- Bryan Caplan
- Cal Newport
- Carl Shulman
- Cass Sunstein
- Cassidy Nelson
- Catherine Olsson
- Chris Blattman
- Chris Olah
- Christian Tarsney
- Christine Peterson
- Christopher Brown
- Claire Walsh
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Daniel Ziegler
- Danny Hernandez
- Dario Amodei
- David Chalmers
- David Denkenberger
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- David Spiegelhalter
- David Wallace
- Dean Spears
- Dr James Tibenderana
- Dr Pardis Sabeti
- Dr Rachel Glennerster
- Elie Hassenfeld
- Emily Oster
- Eric Schwitzgebel
- Eva Vivalt
- Ezra Karger
- Ezra Klein
- Glen Weyl
- Greg Lewis
- Habiba Islam
- Hannah Ritchie
- Helen Toner
- Hilary Greaves
- Holden Karnofsky
- #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
- #110 – Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
- #109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
- #21 – Holden Karnofsky on times philanthropy transformed the world & Open Phil's plan to do the same
- Howie Lempel
- Hugo Mercier
- Ian Morris
- Jack Clark
- Jaime Yassif
- James Forman Jr
- James Snowden
- Jan Leike
- Jeff Sebo
- Jeffrey Ding
- Jeffrey Lewis
- Jennifer Doleac
- Joan Rohlfing
- Joe Carlsmith
- Johannes Ackva
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- Jonathan Birch
- Jose Valle
- Julia Galef
- Karen Levy
- Katja Grace
- Kelly Wanser
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- Ken Goldberg
- Kevin Esvelt
- Laura Deming
- Leah Garcés
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- Lennart Heim
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- Lewis Dartnell
- Lucia Coulter
- Luisa Rodriguez
- Maha Rehman
- Marc Lipsitch
- Marie Gibbons
- Mark Lutter
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- Max Roser
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- Meghan Barrett
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- Michelle Hutchinson
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- Miles Brundage
- Mushtaq Khan
- Mustafa Suleyman
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- Nick Beckstead
- Nick Joseph
- Nina Schick
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- Nova DasSarma
- Ofir Reich
- Owen Cotton-Barratt
- Paul Christiano
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- Persis Eskander
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- Peter Singer
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- Pushmeet Kohli
- Rachel Glennerster
- Randy Nesse
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- Sam Bankman-Fried
- Samantha Pitts-Kiefer
- Samuel Charap
- Santosh Harish
- Sella Nevo
- Seren Kell
- Sharon Hewitt Rawlette
- Sharon Nuñez
- Shruti Rajagopalan
- Sihao Huang
- Spencer Greenberg
- #183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more
- #147 – Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top journals
- #39 – Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions.
- #11 – Spencer Greenberg on speeding up social science 10-fold & why plenty of startups cause harm
- Stefan Schubert
- Stuart Russell
- Sébastien Moro
- Tamara Winter
- Tantum Collins
- Tanya Singh
- Tara Kirk Sell
- Tara Mac Aulay
- Tim LeBon
- Toby Ord
- Tom Davidson
- Tom Inglesby
- Tom Kalil
- Tom Moynihan
- Tristan Harris
- Tyler Cowen
- Varsha Venugopal
- Venki Ramakrishnan
- Vitalik Buterin
- Will MacAskill
- #136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future
- #130 – Will MacAskill on balancing frugality with ambition, whether you need longtermism, & mental health under pressure
- #68 – Will MacAskill on the paralysis argument, whether we're at the hinge of history, & his new priorities
- #17 – Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster
- Yew-Kwang Ng
- Zach Weinersmith
- Zvi Mowshowitz
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