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December

#49 – Rachel Glennerster on a year’s worth of education for under a dollar and other ‘best buys’ in development
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November

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October

#46 – Philosopher Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, probability within a multiverse, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions
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August

#41 – If the US put fewer people in prison, would crime go up? Not at all, according to Open Philanthropy’s renowned researcher David Roodman.
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June

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May

#33 – Oxford’s Anders Sandberg on solar flares, the annual risk of nuclear war, and what if dictators could live forever?
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#31 – Allan Dafoe on trying to prepare the world for the possibility that AI will destabilise global politics
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#29 – Where are the aliens? Anders Sandberg on three new resolutions to the Fermi Paradox and how we could easily colonise the whole universe
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April

#28 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on why daring scientists should have to get liability insurance
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#27 – The careers and policies that can prevent global catastrophic biological risks, according to world-leading health security expert Dr Tom Inglesby
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#26 – How exactly clean meat is created & the advances needed to get it into every supermarket, according to food scientist Marie Gibbons
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March

#23 – Jan Leike on how to become a machine learning alignment researcher
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February

#21 – The world’s most intellectual foundation is hiring. Holden Karnofsky, founder of GiveWell, on how philanthropy can have maximum impact by taking big risks.
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#20 – Bruce Friedrich makes the case that inventing outstanding meat replacements is the most effective way to help animals
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#19 – Samantha Pitts-Kiefer on her job worrying about any way nukes could get used
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December

#16 – Michelle Hutchinson hopes to shape the world by shaping the ideas of intellectuals. Will global priorities research succeed?
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November

#15 – Phil Tetlock on predicting catastrophes, why keep your politics secret, and when experts know more than you
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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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#12 – Beth Cameron fought Ebola for the White House. Now she works to stop something even worse.
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#10 – Nick Beckstead on how to spend billions of dollars preventing human extinction
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September

#8 – Lewis Bollard on ending factory farming as soon as possible
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#7 – Julia Galef on making humanity more rational, what EA does wrong, and why Twitter isn’t all bad
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August

#5 – Alex Gordon-Brown on making millions for charity each year by working in quant finance
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July

Is it fair to say that most social programmes don’t work? (First published)
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#1 – Miles Brundage on the world’s desperate need for AI strategists and policy experts
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Interview with Holden Karnofsky, co-founder of GiveWell
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