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Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours (April 2021)Nine: Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 HoursThe 80,000 Hours Podcast is about “the world’s most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them”, and in this episode we tackle that question in the most direct way possible. In 2019 we published a summary of all our key ideas, which links to many of our other articles, and which we are aiming to keep updated as our opinions shift. All of us added something to it, but the single biggest contributor was our CEO and today's guest, Ben Todd, who founded 80,000 Hours along with Will MacAskill back in 2012. In thi...2021-04-122h 57
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours (April 2021)Ten: Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for itIs effective altruism just about donating money to fight poverty? Does it include a moral obligation to give? How do you talk about it to people who've never heard of it? In this conversation from 2020, Arden Koehler and 80,000 Hours CEO Ben Todd cover a bunch of topics related to effective altruism. We also have an article on misconceptions about effective altruism – based on Will MacAskill’s paper The Definition of Effective Altruism – and this episode can act as a companion piece.Full transcript, related links, and summary of this interviewThis episode first broadc...2021-04-121h 22
80,000 Hours PodcastBenjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)Today’s episode is the latest conversation between Arden Koehler, and our CEO, Ben Todd.
Ben’s been thinking a lot about effective altruism recently, including what it really is, how it's framed, and how people misunderstand it.
We recently released an article on misconceptions about effective altruism – based on Will MacAskill’s recent paper The Definition of Effective Altruism – and this episode can act as a companion piece.
Links to learn more, summary and full transcript.
Arden and Ben cover a bunch of topics related to effective...2020-09-231h 24
The Maximized LifeMax Alive Time Challenge - Day 7Support a local business—GoFundMe recently launched a Small Business Relief Initiative to make it easy to support those impacted by the COVID-19Help Main Street! — Buy gift cards to provide critical cash support during the COVID-19 crisis for businesses in your areaDonate to the Flexport Frontlines Responder Fund — getting supplies (masks, gowns, gloves and other critical supplies) to protect medical professionals in hospitals across the world. Donate to the World Health Organization COVID-19 Solidarity Response FundDonate blood—the American Red Cross and America’s Blood Centers announced recently that the US is facing a “severe...2020-04-2200 min
80,000 Hours Podcast#71 - Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 HoursThe 80,000 Hours Podcast is about “the world’s most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them”, and in this episode we tackle that question in the most direct way possible.
Last year we published a summary of all our key ideas, which links to many of our other articles, and which we are aiming to keep updated as our opinions shift.
All of us added something to it, but the single biggest contributor was our CEO and today's guest, Ben Todd, who founded 80,000 Hours along with Will MacAskill back in 2012.
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80,000 Hours Podcast#0 – Introducing the 80,000 Hours Podcast80,000 Hours is a non-profit that provides research and other support to help people switch into careers that effectively tackle the world's most pressing problems. This podcast is just one of many things we offer, the others of which you can find at 80000hours.org.
Since 2017 this show has been putting out interviews about the world's most pressing problems and how to solve them — which some people enjoy because they love to learn about important things, and others are using to figure out what they want to do with their careers or with their charitable giving.
If...2017-05-0103 min