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January

#90 – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be
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Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics
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December

#89 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems & layers of defense against potential global catastrophes
Podcast

November

#87 – Russ Roberts on whether it's more effective to help strangers, or people you know
Podcast

October

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

Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline
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How to use your career to help reduce existential risk
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Why I’ve come to think global priorities research is more important than I thought
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#84 – Shruti Rajagopalan on what India did to stop COVID-19 and how well it worked
Podcast
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July

#83 – Jennifer Doleac on ways to prevent crime other than police and prisons
Podcast
#82 – James Forman Jr on reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system
Podcast

June

#80 – Professor Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it
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May

#77 – Professor Marc Lipsitch on whether we're winning or losing against COVID-19
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Climate change (extreme risks) (Updated)
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April

Policy and research ideas to reduce existential risk
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#74 – Dr Greg Lewis on COVID-19 & catastrophic biological risks
Podcast

March

#72 – Toby Ord on the precipice and humanity's potential futures
Podcast

February

#70 – Dr Cassidy Nelson on the twelve best ways to stop the next pandemic (and limit COVID-19)
Podcast

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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October

#64 – Bruce Schneier on the big risks in computer security, secrets, and surveillance without tyranny
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September

#63 – Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, blockchain's failures, & effective giving
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August

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June

#58 – Pushmeet Kohli of DeepMind on designing robust & reliable AI systems and how to succeed in AI
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April

#56 – Persis Eskander on wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about it
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2018

December

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

#47 – Catherine Olsson & Daniel Ziegler on the fast path into high-impact ML engineering roles
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October

#46 – Prof Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions
Podcast
#45 – Prof Tyler Cowen's stubborn attachments to maximising economic growth, making civilization more stable & respecting human rights
Podcast
New career review on becoming an academic researcher: Highlights on your chances of success, which fields have highest GRE scores, & having impact outside research
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#44 – Dr 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
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September

#42 – Amanda Askell on moral empathy, the value of information & the ethics of infinity
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August

#41 – David Roodman on incarceration, geomagnetic storms, & becoming a world-class researcher
Podcast
#39 – Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions.
Podcast

July

#38 – Prof Yew-Kwang Ng on anticipating EA decades ago & how to make a much happier world
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#36 – Tanya Singh on ending the operations management bottleneck in effective altruism
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Global priorities research (Updated)
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May

#33 – Dr Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war
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#32 – Prof Bryan Caplan on whether the Case Against Education holds up, totalitarianism, & open borders
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#30 – Dr Eva Vivalt on how little social science findings generalize from one study to another
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#29 – Dr Anders Sandberg on three new resolutions for the Fermi Paradox and how to easily colonise the universe
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April

#28 – Dr Owen Cotton-Barratt on why scientists should need insurance, PhD strategy & what if AI progresses fast
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#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 – Prof Robin Hanson on why we have to lie to ourselves about why we do what we do
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February

#20 – Bruce Friedrich on inventing outstanding meat substitutes to end speciesism & factory farming
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January

#17 – Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster
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2017

December

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

#15 – Prof Tetlock on how chimps beat Berkeley undergrads and when it’s wise to defer to the wise
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Why you should consider applying for grad school right now
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October

#13 – Claire Walsh on testing which policies work & how to get governments to listen to the results
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#11 – Dr Spencer Greenberg on speeding up social science 10-fold & why plenty of startups cause harm
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September

#7 – Julia Galef on making humanity more rational, what EA does wrong, and why Twitter isn’t all bad
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June

#2 – Prof David Spiegelhalter on risk, stats and improving understanding of science
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April

Should you wait to make a difference? (Updated)
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Why and how to earn to give (Updated)
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2016

June

How to do high impact research (Updated)
Article

May

To find work you love, don’t (always) follow your passion (Updated)
Article

April

Climate change (extreme risks) (First published)
Problem profile
Global priorities research (First published)
Problem profile

February

Plan change story: interview with Dillon Bowen, founder of Effective Altruism group at Tufts University
Blog post

2015

September

Are too many people going into biomedical research – or too few?
Blog post

June

I want to make a difference. Should I become a philosopher?
Blog post
Should you do a computer science PhD?
Blog post
Why an economics PhD might be the best graduate program
Blog post
Economics PhD
Career review
Advice on entering a US economics PhD from the UK with a non-quantitative background
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April

Get paid to do existential risk reduction research
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March

Education research: Interview with Dan Greene
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2014

October

Should you wait to make a difference? (First published)
Article

September

Why and how to earn to give (First published)
Article
How to do high impact research (First published)
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To find work you love, don’t (always) follow your passion (First published)
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August

Job satisfaction research
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April

The Undercover Economist speaks to 80,000 Hours
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February

In which career can you make the most difference?
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January

Interview with leading HIV vaccine researcher – Prof. Sir Andrew McMichael
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2013

December

A comparison of medical research and earning to give
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Economics PhD the only one worth getting?
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November

Interview with malaria vaccine researcher Katie Ewer
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Career Opportunities for Economics PhDs
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October

Why I’m doing a PhD
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July

Looking for a seriously high impact job using your managerial skills?
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The Future of Humanity Institute is hiring a high-impact project manager
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April

Is most research a waste?
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February

Bringing it all together: high impact research management
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Vegetarian Research
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January

How to make a difference in research: An interview with Nick Bostrom
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Should you go into research? – part 2
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December

3 Ways to Advance Science
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How to choose a research topic: An interview with Anders Sandberg
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Open Source Technology: A Career in Engineering
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How to do important research
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September

How to be a high impact philosopher, part II
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August

Should you go into research? – part 1
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July

The high impact PA: how anyone can bring about ground-breaking research
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May

How to be a high impact philosopher
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November

High Impact Science
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