Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them.
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Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.
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#124 Classic episode – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions
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2025-02-07
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If digital minds could suffer, how would we ever know? (Article)
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2025-02-04
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#132 Classic episode – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems
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2025-01-31
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#138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter
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2025-01-22
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#134 Classic episode – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us
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2025-01-15
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#140 Classic episode – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline
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2025-01-08
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2024 Highlightapalooza! (The best of The 80,000 Hours Podcast this year)
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2024-12-27
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#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work
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2024-12-19
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#210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals
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2024-11-29
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#209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit
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2024-11-27
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#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world
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2024-11-21
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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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2024-11-14
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Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests
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2024-11-08
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#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness
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2024-11-01
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How much does a vote matter? (Article)
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2024-10-28
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#205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do
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2024-10-23
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#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism
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2024-10-16
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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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2024-10-03
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Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
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2024-09-27
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#202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science
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2024-09-19
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