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2025

Survey results: what AI safety orgs want in a hire
Blog post
AI-enhanced decision making
Problem profile
#223 – Neel Nanda on leading a Google DeepMind team at 26 – and advice if you want to work at an AI company (part 2)
Podcast
80,000 Hours review: 2023 to mid-2025
Blog post
#222 – Neel Nanda on the race to read AI minds (part 1)
Podcast
Announcing the 80,000 Hours Substack
Blog post
Technical AI safety upskilling resources (Updated)
Blog post

#221 – Kyle Fish on the most bizarre findings from 5 AI welfare experiments
Podcast
Content Associate
Blog post
Expression of interest: Contracting for Video Work
Blog post
Early warning signs that AI systems might seek power
Blog post
IT Security, Data Privacy, and Systems Specialist
Blog post
Executive Assistant to the CEO
Blog post
Video Operations Associate/Specialist
Blog post
Recruiting Associate/Specialist
Blog post
Office Associate/Specialist
Blog post
People Operations Associate/Specialist
Blog post
Events Associate/Specialist
Blog post
Operations generalists
Blog post
The most useful skills for making a difference (Updated)
Article
Founder of new projects tackling top problems (Updated)
Career review

Risks from power-seeking AI systems
Problem profile
AI Sitemap (LLMs.txt)
Article
Rebuilding after apocalypse: What 13 experts say about bouncing back
Podcast
The AI 2027 scenario and what it means: a video tour
Blog post
#220 – Ryan Greenblatt on the 4 most likely ways for AI to take over, and the case for and against AGI in under 8 years
Podcast
Community (Updated)
Article

#219 – Toby Ord on graphs AI companies would prefer you didn’t (fully) understand
Podcast
Catastrophic AI misuse
Problem profile
Expression of interest: Head of Recruiting
Blog post
Updates to our list of the world’s most pressing problems
Blog post
How not to lose your job to AI
AI guide
#218 – Hugh White on why Trump is abandoning US hegemony – and that’s probably good
Podcast
3 reasons AGI might still be decades away
Blog post
Technical AI safety upskilling resources (First published)
Blog post
#217 – Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress
Podcast
What are the most pressing world problems? (Updated)
Article
Early-stage startup employee (Updated)
Career review

AGI poses extreme risks
Article
Serendipity, weird bets, & cold emails that actually work: Career advice from 16 former guests
Podcast
AI-enabled power grabs
Problem profile
[Closed] Open position: Engagement Specialist
Blog post
The 80,000 Hours Podcast
Article
#215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize power
Podcast
Expression of interest: Shortform Video Editing Contractor
Blog post
The case for prioritising AI risks
Blog post
Guilt, imposter syndrome & doing good: 16 past guests share their mental health journeys
Podcast
#214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway
Podcast
To understand AI, you should use it. Here’s how to get started.
Blog post
Gradual disempowerment
Problem profile
We’re shifting our strategic approach to focus more on AGI
Blog post
Which industry has the highest-paying jobs? (Updated)
Article

15 expert takes on infosec in the age of AI
Podcast
The case for AGI by 2030
AI guide
Shrinking AGI timelines: a review of expert forecasts
Blog post
Understanding trends in our AI job postings
Blog post
Why AGI could be here soon and what you can do about it: a primer
AI guide
Get the career guide
Article
#213 – Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” — and how we’re completely unprepared
Podcast
Expression of interest: product manager (First published)
Blog post
Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)
Podcast
Terms of use
Article
Great power conflict (Updated)
Problem profile

How quickly could robots scale up?
Blog post
It looks like there are some good funding opportunities in AI safety right now
Blog post
What happened with AI in 2024?
Blog post
Preventing catastrophic pandemics (Updated)
Problem profile

2024

What are experts in biosecurity worried about?
Blog post
#205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do
Podcast
#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism
Podcast
Anonymous answers: could advances in AI supercharge biorisk?
Article
Updates to our problem rankings of factory farming, climate change, and more
Blog post
#203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation
Podcast
Stable totalitarianism (Updated)
Problem profile

Updates to our research about AI risk and careers
Blog post
#199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy
Podcast
Diplomacy
Career review
#198 – Meghan Barrett on upending everything you thought you knew about bugs in 3 hours
Podcast
#197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic’s AI safety policy is up to the task
Podcast
Mpox and H5N1: assessing the situation
Blog post
#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter
Podcast
Why Orwell would hate AI
Blog post
Advisor [Applications closed]
Blog post
#195 – Sella Nevo on who’s trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them
Podcast
AI governance and policy (Updated)
Career review
Should you work at a frontier AI company? (Updated)
Career review
AI safety technical research (Updated)
Career review
The highest-impact career paths our research has identified so far (Updated)
Article

#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government
Podcast
Open position: Head of Video
Blog post
Factory farming (First published)
Problem profile
#193 – Sihao Huang on navigating the geopolitics of US–China AI competition
Podcast
Open position: Marketer
Blog post
Open position: Head of Marketing
Blog post
Mental health and your career: our top resources
Blog post
#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US
Podcast
#191 – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI (Part 2)
Podcast

#191 – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI (Part 1)
Podcast
Does your vote matter? What the research says
Blog post
Stable totalitarianism (First published)
Problem profile
Nuclear weapons
Problem profile
Dive into our most in-depth research on careers
Blog post
#190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious
Podcast

Expression of interest: product manager (Updated)
Blog post
Christian Ruhl on why we’re entering a new nuclear age — and how to reduce the risks
Podcast (80k After Hours)
Particularly neglected causes you could work on
Blog post
Expression of interest: Writer and writer-researcher
Blog post
#183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more
Podcast
#182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more
Podcast
#181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond
Podcast
The case for taking your technical expertise to the field of AI policy
Blog post

2023

Special podcast holiday release: One highlight from every episode in 2023
Blog post
Announcing our plan to become an independent organisation
Blog post
#176 – Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI’s leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models
Podcast
The most useful skills for making a difference (First published)
Article
Not sure where to donate this year? Here’s our advice.
Blog post
Engineering skills
Skill
#175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child
Podcast
#174 – Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate workers
Podcast
Benjamin Todd on the history of 80,000 Hours
Podcast (80k After Hours)
Experience with an emerging power (especially China) (Updated)
Skill
Research skills (Updated)
Skill
Policy and political skills (Updated)
Skill
Software and tech skills (Updated)
Skill
Specialist knowledge relevant to a top problem (Updated)
Skill
Organisation-building (Updated)
Skill
Communicating ideas (Updated)
Skill
Donate to 80,000 Hours (Updated)
Article
Academic research (Updated)
Career review
Improving China-Western coordination on global catastrophic risks (Updated)
Career review

Building career capital: some new advice on three paths
Blog post
What you should know about our updated career guide
Blog post
Research skills (First published)
Skill
Policy and political skills (First published)
Skill
Software and tech skills (First published)
Skill
Specialist knowledge relevant to a top problem (First published)
Skill
Organisation-building (First published)
Skill
Communicating ideas (First published)
Skill
Expert in AI hardware (First published)
Career review
#163 – Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do
Podcast
Open positions: 1on1 team
Blog post
Alex Lawsen on avoiding 10 mistakes people make when pursuing a high-impact career
Podcast (80k After Hours)
Translations of our content
Article
Announcing the new 80,000 Hours career guide
Blog post
#162 – Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI
Podcast
What the past can tell us about how AI will affect jobs
Blog post
Career Guide (audio version)
Career guide
Applying an unusual skill to a needed niche (Updated)
Article

#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
Podcast
Share the career guide
Article
Why many people underrate investigating the problem they work on
Blog post
#157 – Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it
Podcast
How many lives does a doctor save? (Part 3)
Article
How many lives does a doctor save? (Part 2)
Article
How many lives does a doctor save? (Part 1)
Article
Hannah Boettcher on the mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact
Podcast (80k After Hours)
#156 – Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models
Podcast
Working in US AI policy (Updated)
Article

What the war in Ukraine shows us about catastrophic risks
Blog post
#155 – Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after
Podcast
AI governance and policy (First published)
Career review
Great power conflict (First published)
Problem profile
Should you work at a frontier AI company? (First published)
Career review
AI safety technical research (First published)
Career review
How to cope with rejection in your career
Blog post
#154 – Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters
Podcast
Practical steps to take now that AI risk is mainstream
Blog post
#153 – Elie Hassenfeld on two big-picture critiques of GiveWell’s approach, and six lessons from their recent work
Podcast
Information security in high-impact areas (Updated)
Career review
Global priorities research (Updated)
Problem profile

The public is more concerned about AI causing extinction than we thought
Blog post
Give feedback on the new 80,000 Hours career guide
Blog post
Foundations: our most important and novel research on what makes for a high-impact career (First published)
Article
Summary: How to find a fulfilling career that does good
Career guide
#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
Podcast
The 80,000 Hours Podcast on Artificial Intelligence and related topics (First published)
Article
#151 – Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us
Podcast
How 80,000 Hours has changed some of our advice after the collapse of FTX
Blog post
#150 – Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world
Podcast
Some thoughts on moderation in doing good
Blog post
Start here (Updated)
Article
Career planning and decision making — all our best resources (Updated)
Article
The end: A cheery final note – imagining your deathbed (Updated)
Career guide
Part 9: All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job (Updated)
Career guide
Part 3: No matter your job, here’s 3 evidence-based ways anyone can have a real impact (Updated)
Career guide
Part 12: One of the most powerful ways to improve your career — join a community. (Updated)
Career guide
Part 5: The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind (Updated)
Career guide
Why should I read this guide? (Updated)
Career guide
Find a fulfilling career that does good (Updated)
Article
Part 11: All the best advice we could find on how to get a job (Updated)
Career guide
Part 4: Want to do good? Here’s how to choose an area to focus on. (Updated)
Career guide
Part 2: Can one person make a difference? What the evidence says. (Updated)
Career guide
Part 7: Which jobs put you in the best long-term position? (Updated)
Career guide
Part 10: How to make your career plan (Updated)
Career guide
Part 1: We reviewed over 60 studies about what makes for a dream job. Here’s what we found. (Updated)
Career guide
Part 8: How to find the right career for you (Updated)
Career guide

Why we’re adding information security to our list of priority career paths
Blog post
Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
Podcast (80k After Hours)
Are we doing enough to stop the worst pandemics?
Blog post
How much should you research your career?
Blog post
#149 – Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating
Podcast
#148 – Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fashionable ones that don’t
Podcast
Journalism (Updated)
Career review
Biorisk research, strategy, and policy (Updated)
Career review
Expected value: how can we make a difference when we’re uncertain what’s true? (Updated)
Article

What our research has found about AI — and why it matters
Blog post
This could be the most important century
Article
Longtermism: a call to protect future generations
Article
80,000 Hours Cookie Notice
Article
#147 – Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top journals
Podcast
What others have said about 80,000 Hours (First published)
Article
Why you should think about virtues — even if you’re a consequentialist
Blog post
Luisa and Robert Long on how to make independent research more fun
Podcast (80k After Hours)
#146 – Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren’t conscious
Podcast
Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
Problem profile
80,000 Hours two-year review: 2021 and 2022
Blog post
What Bing’s chatbot can tell us about AI risk — and what it can’t
Blog post
In which career can you make the biggest contribution? (Updated)
Article
Be more ambitious: a rational case for dreaming big (if you want to do good) (Updated)
Article
Earning to give in quantitative trading (Updated)
Career review
What is social impact? A definition (Updated)
Article
Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse, and how to avoid them (Updated)
Article
Improving decision making (especially in important institutions) (Updated)
Problem profile
Is it ever OK to take a harmful job in order to do more good? An in-depth analysis (Updated)
Article
Why and how to earn to give (Updated)
Article

Expression of interest: headhunting lead (closed)
Blog post
Expression of interest: systems hire (closed)
Blog post
How much do solutions to social problems differ in their effectiveness? A collection of all the studies we could find.
Blog post
#145 – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn’t inevitable
Podcast
Is the world getting better or worse?
Blog post
The best solutions are far more effective than others (Updated)
Article
Doing good together: how to coordinate effectively and avoid single-player thinking (Updated)
Article

#144 – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is actually one of the fundamental phenomena in our universe
Podcast
Open position: Content associate
Blog post
My thoughts on parenting and having an impactful career
Blog post
The quick, medium, and long versions of career planning
Blog post
2022 in review
Blog post

2022

#143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons
Podcast
How we’re thinking about where to donate to charity this year
Blog post
#142 – John McWhorter on key lessons from linguistics, the virtue of creoles, and language extinction
Podcast
Information security in high-impact areas (First published)
Career review
#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well
Podcast
Marcus Davis on founding and leading Rethink Priorities
Podcast (80k After Hours)
Four values at the heart of effective altruism
Blog post
How to choose where to donate (Updated)
Article

Why being open to changing our minds is especially important right now
Blog post
Regarding the collapse of FTX
Blog post
#140 – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline
Podcast

#138 – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter
Podcast
Immigration restrictions
Problem profile
Whole brain emulation
Problem profile
Preventing the spread of false ideas on social media
Problem profile
Wild animal suffering
Problem profile
Promoting positive values
Problem profile
Risks from malevolent actors
Problem profile
Kuhan Jeyapragasan on effective altruism university groups
Podcast (80k After Hours)
Journalism (First published)
Career review
‘S-risks’
Problem profile
Safeguarding liberal democracy
Problem profile
In which career can you make the biggest contribution? (First published)
Article
#137 – Andreas Mogensen on whether effective altruism is just for consequentialists
Podcast
Should you go to law school in the US to have a high-impact career?
Career review
Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare Project
Podcast (80k After Hours)
Civilisation resilience
Problem profile

What could an AI-caused existential catastrophe actually look like?
Article
Do recent breakthroughs mean transformative AI is coming sooner than we thought?
Blog post
Start here (First published)
Article
#136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future
Podcast
What We Owe The Future
Article
#135 – Samuel Charap on key lessons from five months of war in Ukraine
Podcast

Risks from atomically precise manufacturing
Problem profile
Expression of interest: Head of Operations
Blog post
Open position: Marketer
Blog post
User stories
Article
#134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
Podcast
#133 – Max Tegmark on how a ‘put-up-or-shut-up’ resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection
Podcast

Let’s get serious about preventing the next pandemic
Blog post
Clay Graubard and Robert de Neufville on forecasting the war in Ukraine
Podcast (80k After Hours)
#130 – Will MacAskill on balancing frugality with ambition, whether you need longtermism, and mental health under pressure
Podcast
More neglected areas in mental health
Problem profile
Science policy and infrastructure
Problem profile
High-leverage ways to speed up economic growth
Problem profile
Improving incentives and governance for global public goods
Problem profile
Improving individual reasoning or cognition
Problem profile
Voting reform
Problem profile
Climate change
Problem profile
Effective altruism and the current funding situation
Blog post
Data collection for AI alignment
Career review
#129 – Dr James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination
Podcast
Leadership change at 80,000 Hours
Blog post

Factory farming (Updated)
Problem profile
80k After Hours Podcast (First published)
Article
Alex Lawsen on his advice for students
Podcast (80k After Hours)
Rob and Keiran on the philosophy of The 80,000 Hours Podcast
Podcast (80k After Hours)
Introducing 80k After Hours
Blog post
#121 – Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit’s fallacy and how much military intervention can be used for good
Podcast
Space governance
Problem profile
China-related AI safety and governance paths
Career review
Expression of interest: popular writing consultant
Blog post
Software engineering
Career review
#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy
Podcast

Open position: Head of Job Board
Blog post
Our advisors want to talk with more people than ever before
Blog post
The twelve 80,000 Hours 2021 releases that affected our staff most
Blog post
Insider insights from people reviewing their own careers
Blog post
Open position: Advisor
Blog post

2021

#117 – David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe, ft Sahil Shah
Podcast
#116 – Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all
Podcast
Applying an unusual skill to a needed niche (First published)
Article
#115 – David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implications
Podcast
Be more ambitious: a rational case for dreaming big (if you want to do good) (First published)
Article
The growth of effective altruism: what does it mean for our priorities and level of ambition?
Blog post
Founder of new projects tackling top problems (First published)
Career review
Career exploration: when should you settle? (Updated)
Article

Expert in AI hardware (Updated)
Career review
#114 – Maha Rehman on working with governments to rapidly deliver masks to millions of people
Podcast
Manager of a long-term philanthropic fund
Career review
Investigate a potentially pressing but unexplored global issue
Career review
Research & advocacy promoting impactful climate solutions
Career review
Organise an effective altruism local group
Career review
Expert on formal verification
Career review
Public intellectual
Career review
Specialist in emerging global powers
Career review
Research management
Career review
Become an executive assistant for someone doing especially high-impact work
Career review
Policy careers focused on other pressing global issues
Career review
Historian of large societal trends, inflection points, progress, or collapse
Career review
Forecasting and related research and implementation
Career review
Earning to give in quantitative trading (First published)
Career review
Biorisk research, strategy, and policy (First published)
Career review
Research into global priorities
Career review
Help build the effective altruism community
Career review
Grantmaker focused on pressing world problems
Career review
#113 – Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India
Podcast
Effective altruism in a nutshell
Blog post
#112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
Podcast
What is social impact? A definition (First published)
Article
Effective Altruism: An Introduction — ten curated episodes from The 80,000 Hours Podcast (Updated)
Article

Moral uncertainty: how to act when you’re uncertain about what’s good
Article
Cluelessness: can we know the effects of our actions?
Article
Counterfactuals and how they change our view of what does good
Article
Expected value: how can we make a difference when we’re uncertain what’s true? (First published)
Article
Why some of your career options probably have 100x the impact of others
Article
This could be the most important century
Article
How to compare global problems for yourself
Article
Summary: what makes for a high-impact career?
Article
#111 – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms
Podcast
How to balance impact and doing what you love
Article
3 key career stages
Article
Career exploration: when should you settle? (First published)
Article
Career capital: how best to invest in yourself
Article
Personal fit: why being good at your job is even more important than people think
Article
The best solutions are far more effective than others (First published)
Article
Why the problem you work on is the biggest driver of your impact
Article
Effective altruism
Article

#110 – Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
Podcast
Speak with us
Article
#109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
Podcast
#108 – Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
Podcast
Open position: Head of Marketing
Blog post
Open position: Marketer
Blog post
How are resources in effective altruism allocated across issues?
Blog post
#107 – Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks
Podcast
Join our newsletter (Updated)
Article

Is effective altruism growing? An update on the stock of funding vs people
Blog post
#106 – Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work
Podcast
This is your most important decision
Article
This is your most important decision
Article
#105 – Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
Podcast
About us: what do we do, and how can we help? (Updated)
Article

#97 – Mike Berkowitz on keeping the U.S. a liberal democratic country
Podcast
Launching a new resource: ‘Effective Altruism: An Introduction’
Blog post
#96 – Nina Schick on disinformation and the rise of synthetic media
Podcast
Our mistakes (Updated)
Article

#90 – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be
Podcast
Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics
Blog post
Financial accounts (Updated)
Article

2020

Career planning and decision making — all our best resources (First published)
Article
#89 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems & layers of defence against potential global catastrophes
Podcast
Effective Altruism: An Introduction — ten curated episodes from The 80,000 Hours Podcast (First published)
Article
#88 – Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies
Podcast
College advice (Updated)
Article
Where’s the best place to volunteer? (Updated)
Article

#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
#81 – Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments
Podcast
Building effective altruism (Updated)
Problem profile

Anonymous answers: the complete collection (Updated)
Article
#78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress
Podcast
#77 – Marc Lipsitch on whether we’re winning or losing against COVID-19
Podcast
#76 – Tara Kirk Sell on COVID-19 misinformation, who’s done well and badly, and what we should reopen first
Podcast
How to make tough career decisions (Updated)
Article

#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours
Podcast
Policy and research ideas to reduce existential risk
Blog post
Anonymous contributors answer: How should the effective altruism community think about diversity?
Blog post
Preventing catastrophic pandemics (First published)
Problem profile
#74 – Dr Greg Lewis on COVID-19 and reducing global catastrophic biological risks
Podcast
What programmes will 80,000 Hours provide (and not provide) within the effective altruism community?
Blog post
Contact us
Article
200+ opportunities to work on COVID-19, and 60+ places to get funding
Blog post
80,000 Hours Annual Review – December 2019
Blog post
Essential Facts and Figures – COVID-19
Article
Good news about COVID-19
Blog post
Organisational reviews (Updated)
Article

2019

#61 – Helen Toner on the new 30-person research group in DC investigating how emerging technologies could affect national security
Podcast

Working in US AI policy (First published)
Article
#51 – Martin Gurri on the revolt of the public & crisis of authority in the information age
Podcast

2018

#35 – How the audacity to fix things without asking permission can change the world, demonstrated by Tara Mac Aulay
Podcast

Operations management in high-impact organisations (First published)
Article
#25 – Why we have to lie to ourselves about why we do what we do, according to economist Robin Hanson
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 – Jan Leike on how to become a machine learning alignment researcher
Podcast
Video: The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind
Article
#22 – Leah Utyasheva on how to massively cut suicide rates in Sri Lanka, and her non-profit’s plan to do the same around the world
Podcast
UK commercial law (for earning to give) (First published)
Career review

2017

#8 – Lewis Bollard on ending factory farming as soon as possible
Podcast
Improving decision making (especially in important institutions) (First published)
Problem profile
#7 – Julia Galef on making humanity more rational, what EA does wrong, and why Twitter isn’t all bad
Podcast
Working at effective nonprofits
Career review
#6 – Toby Ord on why the long-term future of humanity matters more than anything else, and what we should do about it
Podcast

Is it fair to say that most social programmes don’t work? (First published)
Article
#3 – Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill
Podcast
These skills make you most employable. Coding isn’t one — can that be right? (First published)
Article

Which professions are paid too much given their value to society?
Blog post
Is it ever OK to take a harmful job in order to do more good? An in-depth analysis (First published)
Article
#2 – David Spiegelhalter on risk, statistics, and improving the public understanding of science
Podcast
Machine Learning PhDs
Career review
Working at effective altruist organisations
Career review
The Schwarzman Scholarship: An exciting opportunity to learn more about China and get a Masters in Global Affairs
Blog post
Guide to working in AI policy and strategy
Article
#1 – Miles Brundage on the world’s desperate need for AI strategists and policy experts
Podcast

How much do hedge fund traders earn?
Blog post
Which industry has the highest-paying jobs? (First published)
Article
Most people report believing it’s incredibly cheap to save lives in the developing world
Blog post

The end: A cheery final note – imagining your deathbed (First published)
Career guide
College advice (First published)
Article
Part 9: All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job (First published)
Career guide
Part 3: No matter your job, here’s 3 evidence-based ways anyone can have a real impact (First published)
Career guide
Part 12: One of the most powerful ways to improve your career — join a community. (First published)
Career guide
How accurately does anyone know the global distribution of income?
Blog post
9 ways to put yourself in a better position in any job (Updated)
Article
What should you look for in a job? Introducing our framework. (Updated)
Article
4 biases to avoid in career decisions (Updated)
Article
Should you wait to make a difference? (Updated)
Article

Allied health professional
Career review
Building effective altruism (First published)
Problem profile
What skills are effective altruist organisations short of? Results from our survey.
Blog post
Some further resources on high-impact careers
Article
Part 5: The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind (First published)
Career guide

5 reasons not to go into education
Blog post

2016

The effective altruism guide to donating this giving season
Blog post
Where’s the best place to volunteer? (First published)
Article
80,000 Hours annual review Dec 2016
Blog post
Has 80,000 Hours justified its costs?
Blog post
End of year update on plan changes
Blog post
80,000 Hours has a funding gap
Blog post
Product manager in tech
Career review

How to choose where to donate (First published)
Article

Update on 80,000 Hours May 2015 – June 2016
Blog post

Update on number of significant plan changes
Blog post

9 ways to put yourself in a better position in any job (First published)
Article
Career Planning Tool Part 2
Article
Career Planning Tool
Article
The rent is too damn high — should you work on reforming land use regulations?
Blog post
New report: Is climate change the biggest problem in the world?
Blog post
To find work you love, don’t (always) follow your passion (Updated)
Article

Why should I read this guide? (First published)
Career guide
Land use reform
Problem profile
Make a decision
Article
Find a fulfilling career that does good (First published)
Article
Why and how to work on nuclear security
Blog post
How and why to use your career to make artificial intelligence safer
Blog post
Problem quiz
Article
Part 11: All the best advice we could find on how to get a job (First published)
Career guide
Smoking in the developing world
Problem profile
The case for and against using your career to combat smoking
Blog post
Why and how to work on cause prioritisation research
Blog post
Global priorities research (First published)
Problem profile
Is global health the most pressing problem to work on?
Blog post
Global health
Problem profile
Why and how to use your career to work on biosecurity
Blog post
Why and how to use your career to end factory farming
Blog post
A framework for comparing global problems in terms of expected impact (First published)
Article
Part 4: Want to do good? Here’s how to choose an area to focus on. (First published)
Career guide
Part 2: Can one person make a difference? What the evidence says. (First published)
Career guide

We’ll pay you up to £1,000 to write a career review for us
Blog post
Which skills make you most employable?
Blog post
Everything you need to know about whether money makes you happy
Article

Will high stress kill you, save your life, or neither?
Blog post
Interview: trying to change the resources industry from the inside
Blog post
Help build our career guide as a freelance web engineer
Blog post
New career review: web designer
Blog post
Web designer
Career review
What the literature says about the earnings of entrepreneurs
Blog post
Use our tool to decide whether you’re on the right career path
Blog post
Is nursing or headhunting the best career for you?
Blog post
How important is finding a career that matches your strengths?
Blog post
Annual career review tool
Article
Executive search
Career review
Doing good through for-profits: Wave and financial tech
Blog post
Nursing
Career review
Rule-breaking in children predicts future success
Blog post
We can learn a lot from Tara, who left pharmacy to work in effective altruism
Blog post
Plan change story: interview with Dillon Bowen, founder of Effective Altruism group at Tufts University
Blog post
The value of coordination
Blog post

10 steps to a job in politics
Blog post
Just how bad is being a CEO in big tobacco?
Blog post
Is now the time to do something about AI?
Blog post

2015

Common investing mistakes in the effective altruism community
Blog post
How to write a career plan
Blog post
Startup employees don’t earn more
Blog post
New opportunities to work in effective altruism
Blog post

How to make tough career decisions (First published)
Article
How can doctors do the most good? An interview with Dr Gregory Lewis
Blog post
Checklist for assessing options
Article
How to explore in your career
Blog post
Biomedical research
Career review
What are the 10 most harmful jobs?
Blog post
Try the new 80,000 Hours ‘Career Recommender’ – it could change your life
Blog post
4 reasons working at a foundation is better than you think
Blog post
Summary of our annual review May 2015
Blog post
What’s it like being a nonprofit in Y Combinator?
Blog post
Plans for the coming year May 2015
Blog post
Review of progress May 2015
Blog post
Review of program performance May 2015
Blog post

Can you have more impact working in a foundation than earning to give?
Blog post
Foundation grantmaker
Career review
‘Replaceability’ isn’t as important as you might think (or we’ve suggested)
Blog post
Update: how many extra donations have we caused?
Blog post
80,000 Hours finance report April 2015
Blog post
Is wealth inequality so extreme that it’s OK to be a ruthless trader?
Blog post
LinkedIn finds the most common ways in and out of every career
Blog post
Early-stage startup employee (First published)
Career review
Systemic change becomes non-systemic change and vice versa
Blog post
We’ve caused 188 significant plan changes
Blog post
New definition of a significant plan change
Blog post
If you want to save lives, should you study medicine? Probably not.
Blog post
Disagreeing about what’s effective isn’t disagreeing with effective altruism
Blog post
Get the chance to save the world with this one weird trick
Blog post
What people miss about career capital: exceptional achievements
Blog post
Think tank research
Career review
Teaching
Career review
Pursuing fame in art and entertainment
Career review
Medical careers
Career review
Actuarial science
Career review
Defining ‘Earning to Give’
Blog post
What should you look for in a job? Introducing our framework. (First published)
Article
Best existing resources (First published)
Article
Community (First published)
Article
The highest-impact career paths our research has identified so far (First published)
Article
Why you usually shouldn’t work at nonprofits straight after graduation
Blog post
Effective altruists love systemic change
Blog post
80,000 Hours thinks that only a small proportion of people should earn to give long term
Blog post
In some careers your parents can give you a huge boost. Should you do what they did?
Blog post
Why are wages less stable in skilled professions?
Blog post
I want to make a difference. Should I work in marketing?
Blog post
What are your chances of getting elected to Congress, if you try?
Blog post
Marketing (for skill-building & earning to give) (Updated)
Career review

Marketing (for skill-building & earning to give) (First published)
Career review
What’s the best way to spend $20,000 to help the common good?
Blog post
I want to make a difference. Should I become a philosopher?
Blog post
Should you go into journalism to make a difference?
Blog post
Should you do a computer science PhD?
Blog post
Computer Science PhD
Career review
Why an economics PhD might be the best graduate program
Blog post
Economics PhDs
Career review
Advice on entering a US economics PhD from the UK with a non-quantitative background
Blog post
Announcing the effective altruism handbook
Blog post
New profile on a new career path: data science
Blog post
Data science (for skill-building & earning to give)
Career review
New in-depth profile on software engineering
Blog post
The winner takes all economy
Blog post
Donating to Giving What We Can is higher impact than donating to GiveWell recommended charities.
Blog post
The rise of income inequality and what it means for your career
Blog post
Why I stopped Earning to Give
Blog post
Don’t go with your gut (but check with it) (Updated)
Article

New TEDx talk released!
Blog post
New in-depth profile on management consulting
Blog post

Our advice in three minutes
Blog post
The four big challenges
Blog post
Management consulting
Career report
10 new organisations founded due to 80,000 Hours
Blog post
Get paid to do existential risk reduction research
Blog post
Management consulting (for skill-building & earning to give) (Updated)
Career review

Management consulting (for skill-building & earning to give) (First published)
Career review
Education research: Interview with Dan Greene
Blog post
How to network
Blog post

Researcher position available at Animal Charity Evaluators
Blog post
The Chronicle of Higher Education on who gets ‘elite’ jobs
Blog post
Should I help now or later?
Blog post
We change more than we expect
Blog post
How to start a career in technology (even if you studied art)
Blog post
Which careers are most likely to be automated?
Blog post

The social impact of different professions
Blog post
A meta-analysis may not mean much
Blog post
Opportunity to work at JPAL as a Research Associate – just hours left to apply!
Blog post

2014

Earning to give is systemic change
Blog post
Why apply to Teach First?: An interview with the UK’s largest graduate recruiter
Blog post
The camel doesn’t have two humps – update to software engineering profile
Blog post
Stop worrying so much about long-term career plans
Article
Stop worrying so much about the long-term
Blog post
Some causes are better than others (First published)
Article
Learn to code in 16 weeks for free in the UK at Founders and Coders
Blog post
Giving What We Can is seeking a Director of Research
Blog post
Interested in working in international development? Consider 2Seeds.
Blog post
Interview with a project manager at the Copenhagen Consensus
Blog post

Best existing resources (Updated)
Article
Some causes are better than others (Updated)
Article
80,000 Hours is seeking a Head of Research
Blog post
The Centre for Effective Altruism is seeking a Chief Operating Officer
Blog post
Serial social entrepreneur, Michael Norton OBE, speaks in Oxford
Blog post
Why and how to keep your options open
Blog post
Mid-year review September 2014
Blog post
The difference between true and tangible impact
Article
Work with us (Updated)
Article

Tell us about your experience with 80,000 Hours, so that we can improve our programmes
Article
Reasoning behind our framework
Article
4 biases to avoid in career decisions (First published)
Article
Should you wait to make a difference?
Blog post
Should you wait to make a difference? (First published)
Article
Why and how to keep your options open
Article
Don’t go with your gut (but check with it) (First published)
Article
Update: 7 career strategies for making a difference
Blog post
Want to do something about the risks of artificial intelligence?
Blog post
What I learned quitting my job to found a tech startup
Blog post
Update on Peter’s career story
Blog post
Tips on careers in journalism from NPR correspondent David Folkenflik
Blog post
Career story: Ben Kuhn: My job hunt after graduating
Blog post
Have you checked out the Effective Altruism Forum yet?
Blog post
Research reports
Article
How to make a difference in any career
Article
Alumni
Article
Interview: Holden Karnofsky on cause selection
Blog post
Part 7: Which jobs put you in the best long-term position? (First published)
Career guide
Part 6: Which jobs help people the most?
Career guide
Interview: Holden Karnofsky on the importance of personal fit
Blog post
We would like to interview you
Blog post
Framework worksheet (Updated)
Article

Tell us about your career
Blog post
Should you move to Thailand?
Blog post
Update: In which career can you make the most difference?
Blog post
The entrepreneur (First published)
Article
The effective worker (First published)
Article
Why and how to earn to give (First published)
Article
The experimenter (First published)
Article
Self-developer (First published)
Article
Framework worksheet (First published)
Article
Update: Don’t follow your passion
Blog post
What does good research look like?
Blog post
To find work you love, don’t (always) follow your passion (First published)
Article
Update: How to choose a career
Blog post
Lots of new content released to the site
Blog post
Cause overview: cause prioritisation
Blog post
Financial accounts (First published)
Article
Conversation with Paul Penley of Excellence in Giving
Blog post
Yardsticks: how to compare the scale of different social problems (Updated)
Article

What others have said about 80,000 Hours (Updated)
Article
The entrepreneur (Updated)
Article
The effective worker (Updated)
Article
The experimenter (Updated)
Article
Self-developer (Updated)
Article
Research process and principles
Article
Our mistakes (First published)
Article
Organisational reviews (First published)
Article
Our impact and credibility (First published)
Article
Trading in quantitative hedge funds (for earning to give) (First published)
Career review
Improving decision making (First published)
Article
Promoting effective altruism (First published)
Article
Global priorities research (First published)
Article
Front office finance (for skill-building & earning to give) (First published)
Career review
Party politics (First published)
Career review
Founding effective nonprofits (international development) (First published)
Career review
Program manager in international organisations (First published)
Career review
Job satisfaction research
Article
Conversation with Paul Christiano on Cause Prioritization Research
Blog post
Yardsticks: how to compare the scale of different social problems (First published)
Article
A checklist for making rational career decisions
Article
Part 10: How to make your career plan (First published)
Career guide
Conversation with Owen Cotton-Barratt of the Global Priorities Project
Blog post
7 strategies for having an impact with your career
Article
Part 1: We reviewed over 60 studies about what makes for a dream job. Here’s what we found. (First published)
Career guide
Part 8: How to find the right career for you (First published)
Career guide
Found a tech startup (First published)
Career review
Work with us (First published)
Article
Join our newsletter (First published)
Article
Our donors (First published)
Article
Meet the team (First published)
Article
Support us
Article
About us: what do we do, and how can we help? (First published)
Article

Trading in quantitative hedge funds (for earning to give) (Updated)
Career review
Global priorities research (Updated)
Article
Party politics (Updated)
Career review
Founding effective nonprofits (international development) (Updated)
Career review
Found a tech startup (Updated)
Career review
Foundation influence interview with Kerry Vaughan
Blog post
How to influence policy? An interview with Owen Barder of the Center for Global Development
Blog post
Careers in journalism – an interview with Larissa MacFarquhar
Blog post
Good Done Right: audio recordings now online
Blog post
What does economics tell us about replaceability?
Blog post
Interview with Caroline Fiennes about opportunities in effective philanthropy
Blog post

The payoff and probability of obtaining venture capital
Blog post
Which university has better entrepreneurs?
Blog post
How to quantify research quality?
Blog post
What is the average net worth of Stanford entrepreneurs?
Blog post
Increasing your earnings as a doctor
Blog post
Advisory board report June 2014
Blog post
Case series – why and how to learn programming
Blog post

How much do Y Combinator founders earn?
Blog post
Summary of the annual review May 2014
Blog post
Team plan May 2014
Blog post
Review of progress July 2013 to April 2014
Blog post
80,000 Hours finance report
Blog post
Our strategic review May 2014
Blog post
Plan change analysis and cost effectiveness
Blog post
How well are our programs performing?
Blog post
What impact has 80,000 Hours had?
Blog post
What we can learn about career choice from the Terman study
Blog post
Biographies of Top Entrepreneurs
Blog post
Shared values predict startup success? An interview with Saberr
Blog post

App Academy interview with Buck Shlegeris
Blog post
The Undercover Economist speaks to 80,000 Hours
Blog post
The Copenhagen Consensus speaks to 80,000 Hours about global prioritisation
Blog post
How much do people pursuing earning to give actually give?
Blog post
80,000 Hours visits Number 10
Blog post

Review of progress on the website
Blog post
80,000 Hours impact survey evaluation
Blog post
Coaching Applications Analysis
Blog post

Front office finance (for skill-building & earning to give) (Updated)
Career review
Program manager in international organisations (Updated)
Career review
Interview with Matt Gibb
Blog post
Case study: should I finish my degree?
Blog post
Case study: earning to give compared to medical research
Blog post
Should you do a degree?
Blog post
Internship opportunities at 80,000 Hours
Blog post
An estimate of the expected influence of becoming a politician
Blog post
Assessing the social value produced by founding Google
Blog post
The Centre for Effective Altruism is looking for a Director of Development
Blog post
In which career can you make the most difference?
Blog post
Some stories of career change due to 80,000 Hours
Blog post
5 ways to make a big difference in any career
Blog post

80,000 Hours is hiring: careers analyst job available
Blog post
Case study: can I earn more in software or finance?
Blog post
Interview with leading HIV vaccine researcher – Prof. Sir Andrew McMichael
Blog post
Has 80,000 Hours helped you?
Blog post
80,000 Hours is hiring! Lead Developer and tech/design interns needed
Blog post
Reasoning about influence in politics
Blog post
Which cause is most effective?
Blog post
The Value of a Degree
Blog post
Neglectedness and impact
Blog post
Case study: choosing between working at effective altruist organisations, earning to give, and graduate school
Blog post
Research into the earnings of software engineers
Blog post

2013

A framework for strategically selecting a cause
Blog post
An interview on which skills most boost your employability
Blog post
A comparison of medical research and earning to give
Blog post
Why pick a cause?
Blog post
More evidence on the competitiveness of charity jobs
Blog post
Economics PhD the only one worth getting?
Blog post

Improving decision making (Updated)
Article
Promoting effective altruism (Updated)
Article
Summary of our thoughts on how to pick a degree
Blog post
An attempt to create a new AMF
Blog post
Careers advice from top tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen
Blog post
Interview with malaria vaccine researcher Katie Ewer
Blog post
Career Opportunities for Economics PhDs
Blog post
Interview with a Cambridge Professor of Medical Genetics on research careers
Blog post
Case study: Working in the financial sector to promote a flourishing long-term future
Blog post
Live Q&A in Oxford with Dame Stephanie Shirley
Blog post
What should you do with a very large amount of money?
Blog post
Thoughts on my experience working at GiveWell
Blog post

Why consider becoming a trader?
Blog post
Linearity – a useful assumption in evaluating careers and causes
Blog post
Interview with the World Health Organisation
Blog post
Why I’m doing a PhD
Blog post
More on What Really Matters for Finding a Job You Love
Blog post
Interview with the founder of Giving Games
Blog post
Interview with Matt Clifford
Blog post
Influencing the Far Future
Blog post
The value of economics PhDs: A conversation with Robin Hanson
Blog post

Should more altruists consider entrepreneurship?
Blog post
We’re looking for donations
Blog post
Case Study: Designing a new organisation that might be more effective than GiveWell’s top recommendation
Blog post
Making a difference through social entrepreneurship: an interview with Tom Rippin
Blog post
Summary of our six month evaluation
Blog post
Trustee and Advisory Board Report
Blog post
Team Plan
Blog post
Finance Report
Blog post

Evaluation of 80,000 Hours as Project
Blog post
Metrics Report
Blog post
Our Progress
Blog post
How important are future generations?
Blog post
Our first career workshop
Blog post
Does your personality matter in picking a career?
Blog post
Why the Myers Briggs test is not useful in picking a career
Blog post
Introduction to our career model
Blog post
We’re looking for a Director of Fundraising and a Finance Manager!
Blog post

Show me the harm
Blog post
How to assess the impact of a career
Blog post
Your career is like a startup
Blog post
80,000 Hours is hiring!
Blog post
Looking for a seriously high-impact job using your managerial skills?
Blog post
The Future of Humanity Institute is hiring a high-impact project manager
Blog post
How important is keeping your options open?
Blog post
We’re changing our career coaching
Blog post
Effective Animal Activism, a spin-off of 80,000 Hours, has hired a full-time Executive Director
Blog post

Maximizing your donations via a job
Blog post
Want to make a real difference in development? AidGrade is hiring!
Blog post
How to add value in international development: an interview with Eva Vivalt
Blog post
Where can I earn the most?
Blog post
Why Earning to Give is often not the best option
Blog post
80,000 Hours in the Washington Post! – Our responses to the coverage
Blog post
80,000 Hours Mentioned in TED
Blog post
How to create a Donor-Advised Fund
Blog post

Can you measure the good you’ll do
Blog post
The worst ethical careers advice in the world
Blog post
What should I read if I’m new?
Blog post
The best career advice you never heard in a graduation speech
Blog post
Biases: how they affect your career decisions, and what to do about them
Blog post
How to double your donations with no extra effort
Blog post
Estimation – Part II: How much will you earn?
Blog post
Estimation – Part I: How to do it?
Blog post
Looking for a seriously high impact job using your analytical skills?
Blog post
How important is networking for career success?
Blog post
Intelligence matters more than you think for career success
Blog post

Interview with Holden Karnofsky, co-founder of GiveWell
Blog post
How much is 50p worth to you?
Blog post
How important is fitting in at work?
Blog post
Is US gun control an important issue?
Blog post
Tiny steps towards an incrementally better world
Blog post
Is most research a waste?
Blog post
How to prioritise – Meta skills part 4
Blog post
Dramatically increase your productivity by using a task management system – Meta-skills Part 3
Blog post
How to finally do what you’ve been putting off – Meta skills part 2
Blog post
Increase your productivity to boost your impact – Meta skills part 1
Blog post
Opportunity to intern with 80,000 Hours
Blog post
How to improve your memory – Meta skills part 5
Blog post
Six Month Review of 80,000 Hours June – Nov 2012
Blog post

Should you plan your career?
Blog post
Internship opportunity in promoting charity cost-effectiveness
Blog post
When to “go with your gut” in career choice
Blog post
How to create the world’s most effective charity
Blog post
How much do taxes matter if you’re giving to charity?
Blog post

How to find out earnings for different jobs
Blog post
The single number that best predicts professor tenure: a case study in quantitative career planning
Blog post
Bringing it all together: high impact research management
Blog post
Two questions you won’t want to ask yourself but should
Blog post
Advice on going into a research career: An interview with Richard Thaler
Blog post
Common mistakes in careers advice: when should you trust sayings?
Blog post
The best resources for planning your career
Blog post
Vegetarian Research
Blog post

Encourage discussion, not defensiveness
Blog post
Career Advice for High-Impact Activism
Blog post
How to choose a degree – putting it all together
Blog post
10 steps to choosing your degree
Blog post
How to choose a degree – what do employers want?
Blog post
How to choose a degree for Earning to Give and Research
Blog post
How to make a difference in research: An interview with Nick Bostrom
Blog post
3 ways to broaden your career horizons
Blog post
Save time through smart buying
Blog post
Trading, donating and charter cities: An interview with Ben Gilbert
Blog post
Should you go into research? – part 2
Blog post
Are you cheating career choice?
Blog post

2012

The power of effective activism
Blog post
Our research on how to find a job you love
Blog post
How to judge your chances of success
Blog post
3 Ways to Advance Science
Blog post
Christmas gifts, goats and cash-transfer charities
Blog post
Want to be successful? Know your odds.
Blog post
How to choose a research topic: An interview with Anders Sandberg
Blog post

Do you think you’re better than average?
Blog post
Is microcredit mostly hype?
Blog post
Triumphs of intuition
Blog post
Why don’t people help others more? – part 2
Blog post
Why don’t people help others more? – part 1
Blog post
A formula for the perfect job?
Blog post
80,000 Hours is Recruiting!
Blog post
Interview with Brian Tomasik
Blog post
The Best News You’ll Hear All Year
Blog post
What’s your true impact?
Blog post
Find the gate
Blog post
Should we stop interviewing people?
Blog post

Sunk Costs in Careers
Blog post
How to be a high impact volunteer
Blog post
Net Impact Survey: Hopeful News for Ethical Careers
Blog post
Good generals let their soldiers die in vain
Blog post
Why most charity fundraisers cause harm
Blog post
Introducing THINK
Blog post
Open Source Technology: A Career in Engineering
Blog post
How much is a volunteer worth?
Blog post
The most important unsolved problems in ethics
Blog post
How to do one year of work in four hours
Blog post
Why don’t charities spend more on fundraising?
Blog post
When should I quantify? – Quantification – Part 4
Blog post
How to do important research
Blog post
Let’s stop building schools
Blog post
Quantification as a Lamppost in the Dark – Quantification – Part 3
Blog post

How to be a high impact philosopher, part II
Blog post
Quantum Quest: Pruning Procrastination
Blog post
Quantification – Part 2 – The Dangers
Blog post
Does money make you happy?
Blog post
Quantification – Part 1 – An Introduction
Blog post
Do you really know what job will make you happy?
Blog post
Is there such thing as a ‘bad’ charity?
Blog post
How good are the best?
Blog post

Should we sacrifice doing what we love to make a difference? part 2
Blog post
How much malaria is biodiversity worth?
Blog post
Should we sacrifice doing what we love to make a difference? part 1
Blog post
Project Launch: Effective Animal Activism
Blog post
How to find a job you’ll love
Blog post
Social interventions gone wrong
Blog post
What is going on at 80,000 Hours?
Blog post
Should you go into research? – part 1
Blog post
Don’t ‘do what you’re passionate about’ – part 2
Blog post
Don’t ‘do what you’re passionate about’ – part 1
Blog post

Following in Schindler’s footsteps
Blog post
On triage
Blog post

Fundraising for charity – A career for effective altruists?
Blog post
The flat margin effect
Blog post
How to be a high impact philosopher
Blog post
Donation methods: credit vs cheque
Blog post

The haste consideration
Blog post
Living to 1000: an interview with Aubrey de Grey
Blog post
Where are the women?
Blog post

Heuristics for a good life
Blog post
The replaceability effect: working in unethical industries part 1
Blog post
Why doesn’t everyone use match funding?
Blog post
Review of Dead Aid
Blog post
What is an effective altruist?
Blog post

The Road Less Travelled: Replaceability and Neglected Causes
Blog post
Lots of website updates on 80,000 Hours
Blog post
26th of September: Petrov Day
Blog post
5 ways to be misled by salary rankings
Blog post
In praise of Viktor Zhdanov
Blog post
Software engineering: Britain vs Silicon Valley
Blog post
Entrepreneurship: a game of poker, not roulette
Blog post
How hard is it to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
Blog post
Professional philanthropy vs professional influencing
Blog post
Pledge to fight neglected tropical diseases
Blog post

Practical ethics given moral uncertainty
Blog post
Just what is making a difference: counterfactuals and career choice
Blog post
High impact interview 1: Existential risk research at SIAI
Blog post
New donations recommendations
Blog post
Is banking harmful?
Blog post
Policy careers
Blog post
WikiCharities, for those who haven’t seen it
Blog post
Salary or startup? How do-gooders can gain more from risky careers
Blog post
Health vs education
Blog post

2011

Delayed Gratification? – Choosing When to Donate
Blog post

It is Effectiveness, not Overhead that Matters
Blog post
Today Show
Blog post
William MacAskill of 80,000 Hours featured on the Today Programme
Blog post
The best causes – updated
Blog post
High Impact Science
Blog post
Our Worst Subjects
Blog post
Estimation is the best we have
Blog post