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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#130 – Will MacAskill on balancing frugality with ambition, whether you need longtermism, & mental health under pressure
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2022-05-23
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#129 – James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination
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2022-05-09
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#128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen
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2022-04-28
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#127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good
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2022-04-14
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#126 – Bryan Caplan on whether lazy parenting is OK, what really helps workers, and betting on beliefs
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2022-04-05
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#125 – Joan Rohlfing on how to avoid catastrophic nuclear blunders
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2022-03-29
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#124 – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions
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2022-03-21
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#123 – Samuel Charap on why Putin invaded Ukraine, the risk of escalation, and how to prevent disaster
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2022-03-14
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#122 – Michelle Hutchinson & Habiba Islam on balancing competing priorities and other themes from our 1-on-1 careers advising
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2022-03-09
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Introducing 80k After Hours
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2022-03-01
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#121 – Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit's fallacy and how much military intervention can be used for good
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2022-02-16
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#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy
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2022-02-02
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#43 Classic episode - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines
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2022-01-18
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#35 Classic episode - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission
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2022-01-10
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#67 Classic episode – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness
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2022-01-03
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#59 Classic episode - Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable
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2021-12-27
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#119 – Andrew Yang on our very long-term future, and other topics most politicians won’t touch
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2021-12-20
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#118 – Jaime Yassif on safeguarding bioscience to prevent catastrophic lab accidents and bioweapons development
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2021-12-13
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#117 – David Denkenberger on using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe, ft Sahil Shah
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2021-11-29
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#116 – Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all
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2021-11-19
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