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At two in the morning, Venezuelan time, on January 3 the lights went out across Caracas. Within hours, the geopolitical architecture of the Western Hemisphere had been violently rearranged.
Under cover of a cyber-induced blackout, the United States launched Operation Absolute Resolve – a massive, multi-domain military intervention that culminated in the extrajudicial capture and rendition of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
The White House has framed this as being a decisive law enforcement action against a "...
2026-01-0725 min
Forever MancuniansEpisode 021 - Graham Wood & Fay Wiblin - WAVE AdventureForever Mancunians shares the stories of featured guests whosevision, commitment and determination in making a difference to the lives of others in our local communites is often interesting and inspiring.
In this episode we chat with the founder of the award winning WAVE Adventure, Grahm Wood and Trustee Fay Wiblin. Passionate about outdoor adventure and the environment, WAVE love introducing people to healthy new activities and organise activity programmes for individuals and groups of all ages and abilities. You can also hear about how Fay and her family have benefitted from opportunities that have opened doors and b...
2025-03-2818 min
Clearer Thinking with Spencer GreenbergSpencer on The 80,000 Hours Podcast discussing money & happiness and hype vs. value (with Rob Wiblin) Read the full transcript here. NOTE: Spencer appeared as a guest on The 80,000 Hours Podcast back in March, and this episode is our release of that recording. Thanks to the folks at The 80,000 Hours Podcast for sharing both their audio and transcript with us! Does money make people happy? What's the difference between life satisfaction and wellbeing? In other contexts, critics are quick to point out that correlation does not equal causation; so why do they so often seem to ignore such equations when they appear in research about the relationships between money and happiness...
2024-07-112h 34
80k After HoursRobert Wright & Rob Wiblin on the truth about effective altruismThis is a cross-post of an interview Rob Wiblin did on Robert Wright's Nonzero podcast in January 2024. You can get access to full episodes of that show by subscribing to the Nonzero Newsletter. They talk about Sam Bankman-Fried, virtue ethics, the growing influence of longtermism, what role EA played in the OpenAI board drama, the culture of local effective altruism groups, where Rob thinks people get EA most seriously wrong, what Rob fears most about rogue AI, the double-edged sword of AI-empowered governments, and flattening the curve of AI's social disruption.And if you enjoy...
2024-04-042h 08
80k After HoursBenjamin Todd on the history of 80,000 Hours"The very first office we had was just a balcony in an Oxford College dining hall. It was totally open to the dining hall, so every lunch and dinner time it would be super noisy because it'd be like 200 people all eating below us. And then I think we just had a bit where we just didn't have an office, so we worked out of the canteen in the library for at least three months or something. And then it was only after that we moved into this tiny, tiny room at the back of an estate agent off...
2023-12-011h 50
80k After HoursLuisa and Robert Long on how to make independent research more funIn this episode of 80k After Hours, Luisa Rodriguez and Robert Long have an honest conversation about the challenges of independent research.Links to learn more, highlights and full transcript.They cover:Assigning probabilities when you’re really uncertainStruggles around self-belief and imposter syndromeThe importance of sharing work even when it feels terribleBalancing impact and fun in a jobAnd some mistakes researchers often makeWho this episode is for:People pursuing independent researchPeople who struggle with self-beliefPeople who feel a pull towards pursuing a career they don’t actually wantW...
2023-03-1443 min
80k After HoursChina-related AI safety and governance paths (Article)In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads our career review of China-related AI safety and governance paths.Here’s the original piece if you’d like to learn more.You might also want to check out Benjamin Todd and Brian Tse's article on Improving China-Western coordination on global catastrophic risks.Get this episode by subscribing to our more experimental podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: type 80k After Hours into your podcasting app.Editing and narration: Perrin WalkerAud...
2023-02-2347 min
The Giving What We Can Podcast#15 - How to best use your career | Rob Wiblin of the 80,000 Hours PodcastWe were lucky to be joined by Rob Wiblin, Director of Research at 80,000 Hours as well as the host of the 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin back in the middle of last year. In this interview, we hear about what 80,000 Hours does and how to find an impactful career. Rob also discusses how laziness was a key factor in creating the 80,000 Hours Podcast and why people might benefit from thinking less about the social impact of their work.
To listen to the 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin visit: https://80000hours.org/podcast/
Check out 80,000 Hours...
2023-02-2039 min
80k After HoursAnonymous advice: If you want to reduce AI risk, should you take roles that advance AI capabilities? (Article)In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads 11 anonymous responses to the question: "if you want to help prevent an AI-related catastrophe, should you be open to roles that also advance AI capabilities, or steer clear of them?"Here’s the original piece if you’d like to learn more.You might also want to check out our original anonymous answers series, the highlights of which were released on the original 80,000 Hours Podcast feed.Get this episode by subscribing to our more experimental podcast on the world’s most p...
2023-01-2030 min
80k After HoursIs climate change the greatest threat facing humanity today? (Article)In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads Benjamin Hilton's problem profile on climate change.Here’s the original piece if you’d like to learn more.You might also want to check out CarbonBrief, which has a range of excellent content and updates on climate change.Get this episode by subscribing to our more experimental podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: type 80k After Hours into your podcasting app.Editing and narration: Perrin WalkerAudio proofing: Katy Moore
2023-01-111h 02
80k After HoursMarcus Davis on Rethink PrioritiesIn this episode of 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin interviews Marcus Davis about Rethink Priorities.Links to learn more, highlights and full transcript.They cover:Interventions to help wild animalAquatic noiseRethink Priorities strategyMistakes that RP has made since it was foundedCareers in global priorities researchAnd the most surprising thing Marcus has learned at RPWho this episode is for:People who want to learn about Rethink PrioritiesPeople interested in a career in global priorities researchPeople open to novel ways to help wild animalsWho this episode isn’t fo...
2022-12-131h 00
The Human Survival PodcastDesigning Effective Climate Activism: Dave Johnson – Stanford Law/Design, Author, Lawyer, ActivistAfter decades of hard work, climate change activists have finally put the issue in the mainstream of public discourse and policy discussions. But, the world’s response to this critical threat to humanity is far too slow. We all need to be even better activists. What can we improve?
Dave Johnson has good ideas for us, brought from the field of design. He is a teacher, lawyer, author and activist. He teaches at the Stanford Law School and at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (a/k/a “the d.school”). He has extensive legal experience in litigation...
2022-11-261h 23
80,000 Hours PodcastRob's thoughts on the FTX bankruptcyIn this episode, usual host of the show Rob Wiblin gives his thoughts on the recent collapse of FTX.
Click here for an official 80,000 Hours statement.
And here are links to some potentially relevant 80,000 Hours pieces:
• Episode #24 of this show – Stefan Schubert on why it’s a bad idea to break the rules, even if it’s for a good cause.
• Is it ever OK to take a harmful job in order to do more good? An in-depth analysis
• What are the 10 most harmful jobs?
• Wa...
2022-11-2305 min
The Bayesian Conspiracy175 – FTX + EA, and Personal FinanceDavid from The Mind Killer joins us. We got to talking about the FTX collapse and some of the waves it sent through the Effective Altruism community. Afterwards David helps us out with personal finance.
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:08 The Sequences Now Formatted For Zoomers
0:11:25 FTX Collapse & EA Shockwaves
0:54:20 Personal Finance
1:43:20 Thank the Patron!
The Sequences In A Zoomer-Readable Format
FTX: The $32B implosion – a good fast roundup of what the hell happened
Yudkowsky’s essay on FTX Future Fund money that’s been paid out
Yudkowsky’s essay war...
2022-11-161h 45The Bayesian Conspiracy175 – FTX + EA, and Personal FinanceDavid from The Mind Killer joins us. We got to talking about the FTX collapse and some of the waves it sent through the Effective Altruism community. Afterwards David helps us out with personal finance.
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:08 The Sequences Now Formatted For Zoomers
0:11:25 FTX Collapse & EA Shockwaves
0:54:20 Personal Finance
1:43:20 Thank the Patron!
The Sequences In A Zoomer-Readable Format
FTX: The $32B implosion – a good fast roundup of what the hell happened
Yudkowsky’s essay on FTX Future Fund money that’s been paid out
Yudkowsky’s essay war...
2022-11-161h 45The Bayesian ConspiracyBREAKING – FTX collapse & EA shockwavesWhile recording the next episode we got to talking about the FTX collapse and some of the waves it sent through the Effective Altruism community. We decided to break it out into a separate segment so it can air while it’s still relevant.
FTX: The $32B implosion – a good fast roundup of what the hell happened
Yudkowsky’s essay on FTX Future Fund money that’s been paid out
Yudkowsky’s essay warning against humans trying to use utilitarianism 14 years ago
Bunch of Twitter – The reason we have excess money to give; Rob...
2022-11-1343 minThe Bayesian ConspiracyBREAKING – FTX collapse & EA shockwavesWhile recording the next episode we got to talking about the FTX collapse and some of the waves it sent through the Effective Altruism community. We decided to break it out into a separate segment so it can air while it’s still relevant.
FTX: The $32B implosion – a good fast roundup of what the hell happened
Yudkowsky’s essay on FTX Future Fund money that’s been paid out
Yudkowsky’s essay warning against humans trying to use utilitarianism 14 years ago
Bunch of Twitter – The reason we have excess money to give; Rob...
2022-11-1343 min
80,000 Hours Podcast#140 – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn't in declineIs war in long-term decline? Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature brought this previously obscure academic question to the centre of public debate, and pointed to rates of death in war to argue energetically that war is on the way out. But that idea divides war scholars and statisticians, and so Better Angels has prompted a spirited debate, with datasets and statistical analyses exchanged back and forth year after year. The lack of consensus has left a somewhat bewildered public (including host Rob Wiblin) unsure quite what to believe. Today's guest, professor in...
2022-11-082h 47
80k After HoursPreventing catastrophic pandemics (Article)In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads Arden Koehler and Benjamin Hilton's problem profile on preventing catastrophic pandemics.Here’s the original piece if you’d like to learn more.You might also want to check out our full profile on Reducing global catastrophic biological risks, by Gregory Lewis.Get this episode by subscribing to our more experimental podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: type 80k After Hours into your podcasting app.Editing and narration: Perrin WalkerAudio...
2022-10-2525 min
Conscious Style Podcast63) Hustle Culture, Boundaries, and Quitting Social Media as a Small Biz Owner | with Saskia de Feijter, part 2How can we let go of hustle culture as a small business owner? How do we set boundaries when we absolutely love what we do and we believe it's making an impact? Is it possible to leave social media as a small business owner? How do we manage our time (and NOT work all of the time!) when everything feels so urgent?We're talking about it all in this episode, which is part 2 of my conversation with Saskia de Feijter — the founder of Ja Wol and the host of the podcast, A Smaller Life.If yo...
2022-10-1156 min
80,000 Hours Podcast#138 – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matterWhat in the world is intrinsically good — good in itself even if it has no other effects? Over the millennia, people have offered many answers: joy, justice, equality, accomplishment, loving god, wisdom, and plenty more. The question is a classic that makes for great dorm-room philosophy discussion. But it's hardly just of academic interest. The issue of what (if anything) is intrinsically valuable bears on every action we take, whether we’re looking to improve our own lives, or to help others. The wrong answer might lead us to the wrong project and render our efforts to impr...
2022-09-302h 24
80k After HoursKuhan Jeyapragasan on effective altruism university groupsIn this episode of 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin interviews Kuhan Jeyapragasan about effective altruism university groups.From 2015 to 2020, Kuhan did an undergrad and then a master's in maths and computer science at Stanford — and did a lot to organise and improve the EA group on campus.Links to learn more, highlights and full transcript.Rob and Kuhan cover:The challenges of making a group appealing and accepting of everyoneThe concrete things Kuhan did to grow the successful Stanford EA groupWhether local groups are turning off some people who should be interested in...
2022-09-211h 00
80k After HoursCareer review: Founder of new projects tackling top problems (Article)In this episode of 80k After Hours, Habiba Islam reads Benjamin Todd's career review on founding new projects tackling top problems.Here’s the original piece if you’d like to learn more.You might also want to check out these relevant pieces:The growth of effective altruism: what does it mean for our priorities and level of ambition? — Benjamin ToddNotes on good judgement and how to develop it — Benjamin ToddWhat we learned from a year incubating longtermist entrepreneurship — Rebecca Kagan, Jade Leung, Ben CliffordGet this episode by subscribing to our more experiment...
2022-09-1216 min
80k After HoursAndrés Jiménez Zorrilla on the Shrimp Welfare ProjectIn this episode of 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin interviews Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla about the Shrimp Welfare Project, which he cofounded in 2021. It's the first project in the world focused on shrimp welfare specifically and now has six full-time staff.Links to learn more, highlights and full transcript.They cover:The evidence for shrimp sentienceHow farmers and the public feel about shrimpThe scale of the problemWhat shrimp farming looks likeThe killing process, and other welfare issuesShrimp Welfare Project’s strategyHistory of shrimp welfare workWhat it’s like working in India and VietnamHow to hel...
2022-09-051h 14The Bayesian Conspiracy169 – S&E BS re AGISteven and Eneasz discuss the latest timeline shifts regarding the advent of superhuman general intelligence. Then in the LW posts we got greatly sidetracked by politics (stupid mind-killer!).
Links:
Two-year update on my personal AI timelines on LessWrong
Robert Wiblin on kissing your kids
Lex Fridman podcast
Jack Clark (AI policy guy) on AI policy
Scott Alexander on slowing AI progress
Guide to working in AI policy and strategy
0:00:42 Feedback
0:08:20 Main Topic
1:13:29 LW posts
2:11:40 Thank the Patron
Hey...
2022-08-242h 12The Bayesian Conspiracy169 – S&E BS re AGISteven and Eneasz discuss the latest timeline shifts regarding the advent of superhuman general intelligence. Then in the LW posts we got greatly sidetracked by politics (stupid mind-killer!).
Links:
Two-year update on my personal AI timelines on LessWrong
Robert Wiblin on kissing your kids
Lex Fridman podcast
Jack Clark (AI policy guy) on AI policy
Scott Alexander on slowing AI progress
Guide to working in AI policy and strategy
0:00:42 Feedback
0:08:20 Main Topic
1:13:29 LW posts
2:11:40 Thank the Patron
Hey...
2022-08-242h 12
Om och men7. Valspecial: “Folk underskattar risken att de har fel”Håll i hatten, lyssnare! Här kommer den stora valspecialen, där vi avslöjar hur just du ska rösta i det kommande riksdagsvalet. Vi diskuterar hur man ska välja parti, varför alla politiker är så tråkiga och om det verkligen är så himla farligt att inte rösta. Vincent talar ut om sitt liv som politisk vindflöjel. Bea erkänner att hon hatar nyheter. Artikeln av Rob Wiblin:https://80000hours.org/articles/is-voting-important/Musik: Här kommer jag och fuckar upp - Alexander Wi...
2022-08-1551 min
80k After HoursSpace governance (Article)In this episode of 80k After Hours, Fin Moorhouse reads his problem profile on space governance.Here’s the original piece if you’d like to learn more.If you want to hear more from Fin, you should check out his podcast Hear This Idea, which showcases new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. And you can see a bunch of other things he's up to on his website.You might also want to check out these relevant pieces:Space governance is important, tractable and neglected — Tobias BaumannAn Informal Review...
2022-06-3046 min
80k After HoursClay Graubard and Robert de Neufville on forecasting the war in UkraineIn this episode of 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin interviews Clay Graubard and Robert de Neufville about forecasting the war between Russia and Ukraine.Links to learn more, highlights and full transcript.They cover:Their early predictions for the warThe performance of the Russian militaryThe risk of use of nuclear weaponsThe most interesting remaining topics on Russia and UkraineGeneral lessons we can take from the warThe evolution of the forecasting spaceWhat Robert and Clay were reading back in FebruaryForecasters vs. subject matter expertsWays to get involved with the forecasting communityImpressive past predictionsAnd more
2022-05-261h 59
80,000 Hours Podcast#127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing goodOn this episode of the show, host Rob Wiblin interviews Sam Bankman-Fried.
This interview was recorded in February 2022, and released in April 2022.
But on November 11 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried's company, FTX, filed for bankruptcy, and all staff at the Future Fund resigned — and the surrounding events led Rob to record a new intro on December 1st 2022 for this episode.
• Read 80,000 Hours' statement on these events here.
• You can also listen to host Rob’s reaction to the collapse of FTX on this podcast feed, above episode 140, or here.
• Rob has shared...
2022-04-143h 20
Rounding@IOWANew Insights on Long COVID Risks, Pathophysiology, Prevention and TreatmentCME CREDIT IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR THIS EPISODE COVID-19 is now over two years old. What are we seeing in patients that continue to experience symptoms? Who is at risk? What is the course of treatment? Today we'll discuss these topics and more, with two of several experts at the Post COVID-19 Clinic. Gerard Clancy, MD Senior Associate Dean for External Affairs Professor of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Alpana Garg, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine University of Iowa C...
2022-03-2950 min
80k After HoursMichelle and Habiba on what they’d tell their younger selves, and the impact of the 1-1 teamIn this episode of 80k After Hours — Rob continues to interview his 80,000 Hours colleagues Michelle Hutchinson and Habiba Islam about the 1-1 team.Links to learn more, highlights and full transcript. This is the second of a two-part interview. You can find the first part on the original 80,000 Hours Podcast feed.In this part, they cover:Whether just encouraging someone young to aspire to more than they currently are is one of the most impactful ways to spend half an hourHow much impact the one-on-one team has, the biggest challenges they face as...
2022-03-091h 04The Bayesian Conspiracy157 – A Fistful of TopicsWe catch up on stuff and hit a few wandering targets.
0:01 Jace on Lithium
21:10 Feedback
26:05 LW posts
50:06 Nuclear Ukraine
59:43 Nuclear Us
1:05:30 Steven Tries To Get Us Cancelled
Lithium in drinking water linked with lower suicide rates
The Mind Killer – Vladimir Putin’s Small Dick Energy
Warcasting – ACX and Zvi
Razom Ukraine delivers medical supplies
Robert Wiblin leaving London
Potasium Iodide tablets
Eneasz Interviews Ada Palmer
Keep Your Identity Small
Hey look, we have a discord...
2022-03-091h 22The Bayesian Conspiracy157 – A Fistful of TopicsWe catch up on stuff and hit a few wandering targets.
0:01 Jace on Lithium
21:10 Feedback
26:05 LW posts
50:06 Nuclear Ukraine
59:43 Nuclear Us
1:05:30 Steven Tries To Get Us Cancelled
Lithium in drinking water linked with lower suicide rates
The Mind Killer – Vladimir Putin’s Small Dick Energy
Warcasting – ACX and Zvi
Razom Ukraine delivers medical supplies
Robert Wiblin leaving London
Potasium Iodide tablets
Eneasz Interviews Ada Palmer
Keep Your Identity Small
Hey look, we have a discord...
2022-03-091h 22
80k After HoursBe more ambitious: a rational case for dreaming big (if you want to do good) (Article)In this episode of 80k After Hours, Habiba Islam reads Benjamin Todd’s article “Be More Ambitious: a rational case for dreaming big (if you want to do good)”. Here’s the original article if you’d like to learn more.You might also want to check out these pieces:
A (free) weekly career planning course for positive impact
How much risk to take?
Expected value: how can we know what makes a difference when uncertain?
And 3 key career stages
Get this episode by subscribing to our more experimental podcast on the world’s most press...
2022-02-2817 min
80k After HoursAlex Lawsen on his advice for studentsIn this episode of 80k After Hours, Keiran Harris interviews 80,000 Hours advisor (and former high school teacher) Alex Lawsen about his advice for students.Links to learn more, highlights and full transcript.They cover:When half-assing something is a good ideaWhen you should actually learn things vs. just trying to seem smartWhy you should shift your focus over the academic yearNovel tips for preparing for examsWhat to do if you struggle with motivationWhat to do when you have bad teachersHow students should think about exploring and experimentingBad approaches to learningHow to think about personal...
2022-02-282h 24
80k After HoursRob and Keiran on the philosophy of The 80,000 Hours PodcastIn this episode of 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin and Keiran Harris are interviewed by Kearney Capuano and Aaron Bergman of the new podcast ‘All Good’ about what goes on behind-the-scenes at the 80,000 Hours Podcast.Links to learn more, highlights and full transcript.We cover:The history and philosophy of The 80,000 Hours PodcastThe nuts and bolts of how we make the showRob’s bad habits as an interviewerTopics we try to avoidCritiques of the showThe pros and cons of podcasting vs. other mediumsOur position in the effective altruism communityWhether there’s an optimism bias in the EA co...
2022-02-281h 5380k After HoursIntroducing 80k After Hours80k After Hours is a podcast by the team that brings you The 80,000 Hours Podcast.Here Rob Wiblin and Keiran Harris briefly explain what to expect from the new show.
2022-02-2513 min
80,000 Hours Podcast#121 – Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit's fallacy and how much military intervention can be used for goodIf you read polls saying that the public supports a carbon tax, should you believe them? According to today's guest — journalist and blogger Matthew Yglesias — it's complicated, but probably not. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. Interpreting opinion polls about specific policies can be a challenge, and it's easy to trick yourself into believing what you want to believe. Matthew invented a term for a particular type of self-delusion called the 'pundit's fallacy': "the belief that what a politician needs to do to improve his or her political standing is do what the pundi...
2022-02-163h 04
The Nonlinear Library: Alignment SectionAlignment Newsletter #27 by Rohin ShahWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio.
This is: Alignment Newsletter #27, published by Rohin Shah on the AI Alignment Forum.
Dan Hendrycks has now joined, and will likely write summaries primarily on adversarial examples and robustness. As with Richard, his summaries are marked as such; I'm reviewing some of them now but expect to review less over time.
Highlights
80K podcast with Paul Christiano (Paul Christiano and Rob Wiblin): This is a mammoth 4-hour interview that covers a lot of ground. I'll try to...
2021-11-1716 minThe Nonlinear Library: Alignment SectionAlignment Newsletter #21 by Rohin ShahWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio.
This is: Alignment Newsletter #21, published by Rohin Shah on the AI Alignment Forum.
Highlights
80K podcast with Katja Grace (Katja Grace and Rob Wiblin): Rob Wiblin interviewed Katja Grace of AI Impacts about her work predicting the future of AI. My main takeaway was that there are many important questions in this space that almost no one is trying to answer, and that we haven't made a good enough attempt yet to conclude that it's too hard...
2021-11-1711 min
80,000 Hours Podcast#115 – David Wallace on the many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics and its implicationsQuantum mechanics — our best theory of atoms, molecules, and the subatomic particles that make them up — underpins most of modern physics. But there are varying interpretations of what it means, all of them controversial in their own way. Famously, quantum theory predicts that with the right setup, a cat can be made to be alive and dead at the same time. On the face of it, that sounds either meaningless or ridiculous. According to today’s guest, David Wallace — professor at the University of Pittsburgh and one of the world's leading philosophers of physics — there are three br...
2021-11-123h 09
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)Effective altruism in a nutshellEffective Altruism: Ten Global Problems is a collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, designed to bring you up to speed on ten pressing issues the effective altruism community is working to solve.Here the host of the show — Rob Wiblin — briefly explains what effective altruism is all about, and what to expect from the rest of this series.
2021-10-0409 min
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)One: Toby Ord on existential risksIn 2020, Oxford academic and 80,000 Hours trustee Dr Toby Ord released his book The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. It's about how our long-term future could be better than almost anyone believes, but also how humanity's recklessness is putting that future at grave risk — in Toby's reckoning, a 1 in 6 chance of being extinguished this century.Toby is a famously good explainer of complex issues — a bit of a modern Carl Sagan character — so we thought this would be a perfect introduction to the problem of existential risks.Full transcript, related links, and summary of this i...
2021-10-033h 13
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)Two: Rachel Glennerster on global povertyIf I told you it’s possible to deliver an extra year of ideal primary-level education for 30 cents, would you believe me? Hopefully not – the claim is absurd on its face.But it may be true nonetheless. The very best education interventions are phenomenally cost-effective, but they’re not the kinds of things you’d expect, says Dr Rachel Glennerster — who we chose to introduce the problem of global poverty. Full transcript, related links, and summary of this interviewThis episode first broadcast on the regular 80,000 Hours Podcast feed on December 20, 2018. Some related episodes include:#13 – Cla...
2021-10-031h 33
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)Three: Andy Weber on pandemics and nuclear warsCOVID-19 has provided a vivid reminder of the damage biological threats can do. But the threat doesn’t come from natural sources alone. Weaponized contagious diseases — which were abandoned by the United States, but developed in large numbers by the Soviet Union, right up until its collapse — have the potential to spread globally and kill just as many as an all-out nuclear war.For five years, Andy Weber, was the US’ Assistant Secretary of Defense responsible for biological and other weapons of mass destruction. Andy’s current mission is to spread the word that while bioweapons are terrifying...
2021-10-031h 54
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)Four: Brian Christian on artificial intelligenceBrian Christian is a bestselling author with a particular knack for accurately communicating difficult or technical ideas from both mathematics and computer science.The 80,000 Hours team found his new book The Alignment Problem to be an insightful and comprehensive review of the state of the research into making advanced artificial intelligence useful and reliably safe, and we thought he'd be a great person to introduce the problem.Full transcript, related links, and summary of this interviewThis episode first broadcast on the regular 80,000 Hours Podcast feed on March 5, 2021. Some related episodes include:#44 – Dr Paul Ch...
2021-10-032h 54
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)Five: Lewis Bollard on factory farmingEvery year tens of billions of animals are raised in terrible conditions in factory farms before being killed for human consumption. Despite the enormous scale of suffering this causes, the issue is largely neglected: every year, only about $290 million is spent tackling the problem globally (for comparison, annual climate change philanthropy is estimated to be $8–12 billion).Since 2015, Lewis Bollard has led Open Philanthropy’s programme on farmed animal welfare, where he has conducted extensive research into the best ways to end animal suffering in factory farms as soon as possible. He might be the single best...
2021-10-032h 31
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)Six: Jennifer Doleac on criminal justice reformThe killing of George Floyd has prompted a great deal of debate over whether the US should shrink its police departments. The research literature suggests that the presence of police officers does reduce crime, though they’re not cheap, and as is increasingly recognised, impose substantial harms on the populations they are meant to be protecting, especially communities of colour.So maybe we ought to shift our focus to unconventional but effective approaches to crime prevention — approaches that would shrink the need for police or prisons and the human toll they bring with them.J...
2021-10-032h 17
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)Seven: Ezra Klein on journalismHow many words in U.S. newspapers have been spilled on tax policy in the past five years? And how many words on CRISPR? Or meat alternatives? Or how AI may soon automate the majority of jobs?When people look back on this era, is the interesting thing going to have been fights over whether or not the top marginal tax rate was 39.5% or 35.4%, or is it going to be that human beings started to take control of human evolution; that we stood on the brink of eliminating immeasurable levels of suffering on factory farms; and...
2021-10-031h 45
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)Eight: Mark Lynas on climate changeA golf-ball sized lump of uranium can deliver more than enough power to cover all your lifetime energy use. To get the same energy from coal, you’d need 3,200 tonnes of the stuff — a mass equivalent to 800 adult elephants, which would go on to produce more than 11,000 tonnes of CO2. That’s about 11,000 tonnes more than the uranium.Many people aren’t comfortable with the danger posed by nuclear power. But given the climatic stakes, it’s worth asking: Just how much more dangerous is it compared to fossil fuels?According to today’s guest, Mark Lynas —...
2021-10-032h 06
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)Nine: Dave Denkenberger on feeding the world through catastrophesIf a nuclear winter or asteroid impact blocked the sun for years, our inability to grow food would result in billions dying of starvation, right? According to Dr Dave Denkenberger, co-author of Feeding Everyone No Matter What: no. If he’s to be believed, nobody need starve at all.Even without the sun, Dave sees the Earth as a bountiful food source. Mushrooms farmed on decaying wood. Bacteria fed with natural gas. Fish and mussels supported by sudden upwelling of ocean nutrients – and many more.Dr Denkenberger is an Assistant Professor at the Univ...
2021-10-032h 56
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)Ten: Persis Eskander on wild animal sufferingMost animals are hunted by predators, and constantly have to remain vigilant lest they be killed, and perhaps experience the terror of being eaten alive. Resource competition often leads to chronic hunger or starvation. Their diseases and injuries are never treated. In winter wild animals freeze to death and in droughts they die of heat or thirst.There are fewer than 20 people in the world dedicating their lives to researching these problems.But according to Persis Eskander, if we sum up the negative experiences of all wild animals, their sheer number – trillions to qu...
2021-10-032h 35Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)What's nextNow you've finished Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems, here's what we suggest you do next.And if you’ve listened to this series and found the ideas resonated with you, our one-on-one team might be able to help you apply them to your career. We can talk to you about career options, make introductions in your chosen fields, and help you work out next steps on a free careers call. Apply now.
2021-10-0302 min
Hear This IdeaBen Todd on Choosing a Career and Defining LongtermismBen Todd is the CEO & founder of 80,000 Hours, and helped to start the effective altruism movement.
80,000 Hours is a non-profit that provides free research and support to help people find careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.
In our interview, we discuss:
Why your choice of career could be the most important ethical decision you ever get to make;
80K’s ‘problem, solution, personal fit’ framework for choosing a career;
Whether longtermism should be considered a research project or a social movement;
The idea of using leverage to multiply the difference you're a...
2021-08-2300 minHear This Idea35. Ben Todd on Choosing a Career and Defining LongtermismBen Todd is the CEO & founder of 80,000 Hours, and helped to start the effective altruism movement.
80,000 Hours is a non-profit that provides free research and support to help people find careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems.
In our interview, we discuss:
Why your choice of career could be the most important ethical decision you ever get to make;
80K’s ‘problem, solution, personal fit’ framework for choosing a career;
Whether longtermism should be considered a research project or a social movement;
The idea of using leverage to multiply the differen...
2021-08-2359 min
The Shiba Chat ShowEpisode 06 with Ashleigh Wiblin (South Africa)In this 6th episode we receive Ashleigh Wiblin. Ashleigh is a first time Shiba Inu owner living in Cape Town, South Africa. She brought Aizen home in March 2021 and loves the breed, mostly for their fun and quirky nature! Aizen is now 6 months old (August 2021) and is loved and cherished by his parents and every person who meets him!Follow Aizen at https://www.instagram.com/shibainu.aizen/
2021-08-1333 min
AffixEpisode 28: We shouldn't have talked about tri-cam-eralism without Cam - SPECIAL GUEST Please contact us or support us on Patreon!A discussion of aging and wisdom, more forms of government that we should try, and Chris exhorts you, yes you specifically, to become a billionaire. You can also find us on discord or redditBig list of coffee bets - now also on Melange app. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------I'm just going to put a link to Marginal Revolution here. I feel like all we do is reference blogs we found there first.Rob Wiblin is the director of research at 80,000 hours. H...
2021-08-081h 10
Increments#28 (C&R Series, Ch. 9) - Why is Logic Applicable to Reality?Why do logic and mathematics work so well in the world? Why do they seem to describe reality? Why do they they enable us to design circuit boards, build airplanes, and listen remotely to handsome and charming podcast hosts who rarely go off topic?
To answer these questions, we dive into Chapter 9 of Conjectures and Refutations: Why are the Calculi of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality?.
But before we get to that, we touch on some of the good stuff: evolutionary psychology, cunnilingus, and why Robin is better than Batman.
References:
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2021-07-191h 01
80,000 Hours Podcast#101 – Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the worldIn 2003, Saddam Hussein refused to let Iraqi weapons scientists leave the country to be interrogated. Given the overwhelming domestic support for an invasion at the time, most key figures in the U.S. took that as confirmation that he had something to hide — probably an active WMD program.
But what about alternative explanations? Maybe those scientists knew about past crimes. Or maybe they’d defect. Or maybe giving in to that kind of demand would have humiliated Hussein in the eyes of enemies like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
According to today’s guest Robert Wright, host o...
2021-05-281h 36
MeaningofLife.tvSaving the World One Podcast at a Time (Robert Wright & Rob Wiblin)Defining effective altruism ... Rob explains the meaning of ‘80,000 Hours’ ... Should young people dedicate their careers to fighting climate change? ... The Apocalypse Aversion Project ... How cognitive biases fuel tribalism ... Bob: We need a psychological revolution ... Are external threats the best way to bring people together? ... The balance between surveillance and public safety ... Bob: Let's retire the word 'apologist' ... Making rationality cool ... Rob challenges Bob to find flaws in "The Moral Animal" ...
2021-05-2500 minMeaningofLife.tvSaving the World One Podcast at a Time (Robert Wright & Rob Wiblin)Defining effective altruism ... Rob explains the meaning of ‘80,000 Hours’ ... Should young people dedicate their careers to fighting climate change? ... The Apocalypse Aversion Project ... How cognitive biases fuel tribalism ... Bob: We need a psychological revolution ... Are external threats the best way to bring people together? ... The balance between surveillance and public safety ... Bob: Let's retire the word 'apologist' ... Making rationality cool ... Rob challenges Bob to find flaws in "The Moral Animal" ...
2021-05-2500 min
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours (April 2021)Effective altruism in a nutshell'Effective Altruism: An Introduction' is a collection of ten top episodes of The 80,000 Hours Podcast specifically selected to help listeners quickly get up to speed on the school of thought known as effective altruism.Here the host of the show — Rob Wiblin — briefly explains what effective altruism is all about, and what to expect from the rest of this series.
2021-04-1309 min
80,000 Hours PodcastRob Wiblin on how he ended up the way he isThis is a crosspost of an episode of the Eureka Podcast.
The interviewer is Misha Saul, a childhood friend of Rob's, who he has known for over 20 years. While it's not an episode of our own show, we decided to share it with subscribers because it's fun, and because it touches on personal topics that we don't usually cover on the show.
Rob and Misha cover:
• How Rob's parents shaped who he is (if indeed they did)
• Their shared teenage obsession with philosophy, which eventually led to Rob working at 80,000 Hours
• How th...
2021-02-031h 57
EurekaPortrait of an Effective Altruist as a Young Man (my conversation with Rob Wiblin)Rob Wiblin is a founder and leader of the modern Effective Altruism movement…. and one of my oldest friends!
This conversation is different because there’s not much about Effective Altruism – there’s Rob’s excellent podcast and prolific writing for that. This conversation is a chat between old mates, and it tries to track our intellectual development since we were teens. Is that self-indulgent? Maybe! But it’s the conversation I was excited to have with Rob.
We cover a lot:
What Rob learnt from his parents
How we shaped each other’s...
2021-02-031h 57
80,000 Hours PodcastRob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethicsThis is a crosspost of an episode of the Clearer Thinking Podcast: 022: Self-Improvement and Research Ethics with Rob Wiblin.
Rob chats with Spencer Greenberg, who has been an audience favourite in episodes 11 and 39 of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, and has now created this show of his own.
Among other things they cover:
• Is trying to become a better person a good strategy for self-improvement
• Why Rob thinks many people could achieve much more by finding themselves a line manager
• Why interviews on this show are so damn l...
2021-01-132h 30Clearer Thinking with Spencer GreenbergSelf-Improvement and Research Ethics (with Rob Wiblin) Read the full transcript here. What are the best strategies for improving ourselves? How are line managers useful? Why does Rob prefer long-form content for the 80,000 Hours podcast? What are the sorts of things humans value and why? In what ways do research ethics considerations fail to achieve their stated objectives? Why are prediction markets useful? Rob Wiblin is the Head of Research at 80,000 Hours where he investigates how people can do more good in the course of their career and produces a long-form interview show called the 80,000 Hours Podcast. He studied genetics and economics...
2021-01-082h 32
EconTalkRob Wiblin and Russ Roberts on Charity, Science, and UtilitarianismRob Wiblin, host of the 80,000 Hours podcast, interviews EconTalk host Russ Roberts about charity, the reliability of data to inform decision-making, and utilitarianism.
2020-11-021h 47
Spedup Conversation With TylerRob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*In this special episode, Rob Wiblin of 80,000 Hours has the super-sized conversation he wants to have with Tyler about Stubborn Attachments. In addition to a deep examination of the ideas in the book, the conversation ranges far and wide across Tyler's thinking, including why we won't leave the galaxy, the unresolvable clash between the claims of culture and nature, and what Tyrone would have to say about the book, and more. Transcript and links Order Stubborn Attachments from Stripe Press here. Follow Rob on Twitter Follow Tyler on Twitter
2020-10-222h 16
The Good Life: Andrew Leigh in ConversationRob Wiblin on effective altruism and making the most of your 80,000 hours (Rebroadcast)Rob Wiblin on effective altruism and making the most of your 80,000 hours.
2020-10-021h 08
The TeesNeuro PodcastTeesNeuro Tackles Stroke and TIAJoin Dr Lou Wiblin as she chats to Dr Gavin Young, consultant neurologist at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.
mimics and mysteries in the TIA clinic
what is a young stroke (and how this relates to the age of the neurologist)
DOACs in thrombolysis, AF and venous sinus thrombosis
thrombolysis and thrombectomy
evidence and studies in stroke
As ever, we hear what advice he would give himself.
2020-09-211h 14The TeesNeuro PodcastTeesNeuro Tackles Complex EpilepsyJoin Dr Lou Wiblin as she chats to Dr Ela Akay, consultant neurologist at The Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne.
We cover:
how mentorship can inspire your career choices
what is treatment-resistant epilepsy?
what types of focal seizures do we see?
what epilepsy syndromes should we never miss?
how to manage fertility and pregnancy
how do we "untreat" people?
As ever, we hear what advice she would give her trainee self.
2020-08-161h 07
Increments#10 (C&R Series, Ch. 4) - TraditionTraditions, what are you good for? Absolutely nothing? In this episode of Increments, Ben and Vaden begin their series on Conjectures and Refutations by looking at the role tradition plays in society, and examine one tradition in particular - the critical tradition. No monkeys were harmed in the making of this episode. References:- C&R, Chapter 4: Towards a Rational Theory of TraditionPodcast shoutout:- Jennifer Doleac and Rob Wiblin on policing, law and incarceration- James Foreman Jr. on the US criminal...
2020-08-131h 15The TeesNeuro PodcastTeesNeuro Tackles MSJoin Dr Lou Wiblin as she chats to Dr Kate Petheram, consultant neurologist at Sunderland Royal Hospital.
This podcast covers MS for junior doctors, including medical and neurology trainees.
Including hits such as:
what is MS?
how to approach the space-time continuation
do the McDonald criteria matter?
drug development and new treatments - what are the options?
how to manage symptoms
We also hear what advice she might give her trainee self.
2020-07-201h 15The TeesNeuro PodcastTeesNeuro Tackles ... Neuro-ophthalmologyDr Lou Wiblin talks to Dr Sui Wong, Moorfields Eye Hospital, about:
the mysteries of eye movements
why we shouldn't be afraid of the impenetrable terminology
how to figure out monocular visual loss
how to talk to people about Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
what you just can't afford to miss
We also hear what advice she might give her trainee self.
2020-06-291h 04The TeesNeuro PodcastTeesNeuro Tackles Academic Medicine - with Prof David BurnDr Lou Wiblin, consultant neurologist, talks to Prof David Burn, about how and why to get into research.
David is President of the Association of British Neurologists, Pro Vice Chancellor of Newcastle University and, until recently, Movement Disorder lead at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcaslte upon Tyne, UK.
David tells us about his incurable imposter syndrome, how he found his way into research and gives some sage advice to his younger self.
2020-06-1657 min
The ValmyRob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments* Podcast: Conversations with Tyler Episode: Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*Release date: 2018-10-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this special episode, Rob Wiblin of 80,000 Hours has the super-sized conversation he wants to have with Tyler about Stubborn Attachments. In addition to a deep examination of the ideas in the book, the conversation ranges far and wide across Tyler's thinking, including why we won't leave the galaxy, the unresolvable clash between the claims of culture and nature, and what Tyrone would have to...
2020-06-082h 30
Naravoslovje Archives - Metina listaMeta PHoDcast 114: Nace Mikuš, matematik in nevroznanstvenikZ Nacetom Mikušem o računski psihiatriji.
#MetaPHoDcast
Nace Mikuš opravlja doktorat na Univerzi na Dunaju, na Oddelku za psihologijo, kjer raziskuje v skupini za nevro-psihofarmakologijo in biopsihologijo. V skupini uporabljajo psihofarmakološke eksperimente in kompleksne matematične modele, da bi bolje razumeli, kakšno vlogo imajo osnovni nevrotransmiterski sistemi v možganih pri vedenju ljudi.
Nace je začel svojo akademsko pot s študijem matematike, kasneje je nadaljeval s kognitivno znanostjo. V njegovem doktorskem študiju se ti dve področji prepletata.
V raziskovalni skupini zasnujejo psihološke eksperimente, s katerimi lahk...
2020-05-1432 minInterdisciplinarne raziskave Archives - Metina listaMeta PHoDcast 114: Nace Mikuš, matematik in nevroznanstvenikZ Nacetom Mikušem o računski psihiatriji.
#MetaPHoDcast
Nace Mikuš opravlja doktorat na Univerzi na Dunaju, na Oddelku za psihologijo, kjer raziskuje v skupini za nevro-psihofarmakologijo in biopsihologijo. V skupini uporabljajo psihofarmakološke eksperimente in kompleksne matematične modele, da bi bolje razumeli, kakšno vlogo imajo osnovni nevrotransmiterski sistemi v možganih pri vedenju ljudi.
Nace je začel svojo akademsko pot s študijem matematike, kasneje je nadaljeval s kognitivno znanostjo. V njegovem doktorskem študiju se ti dve področji prepletata.
V raziskovalni skupini zasnujejo psihološke eksperimente, s katerimi lahk...
2020-05-1432 min
Talk of Today80,000 hours with Rob WiblinThis podcast has the potential to significantly change the way you spend your time and money. And i’m not being hyperbolic. In this episode I’m speaking with Rob Wiblin from 80,000 hours, an organisation that looks into how people can spend their most precious resource, their time, but more specifically, the time they spend working, to maximise for humanity’s well being. The number 80,000 hours is roughly how long someone spends working in their lifetime, hence the name. It’s an organisation with its foundation in effective altruism, which is a philosophy and social movement that aims to apply evidence...
2020-02-2243 minTalk of Today80,000 hours with Rob WiblinThis podcast has the potential to significantly change the way you spend your time and money. And i’m not being hyperbolic.
In this episode I’m speaking with Rob Wiblin from 80,000 hours, an organisation that looks into how people can spend their most precious resource, their time, but more specifically, the time they spend working, to maximise for humanity’s well being. The number 80,000 hours is roughly how long someone spends working in their lifetime, hence the name.
It’s an organisation with its foundation in effective altruism, which is a philosophy and social movement that aims to apply evidence...
2020-02-2243 min
80,000 Hours PodcastRob & Howie on what we do and don't know about 2019-nCoVTwo 80,000 Hours researchers, Robert Wiblin and Howie Lempel, record an experimental bonus episode about the new 2019-nCoV virus.See this list of resources, including many discussed in the episode, to learn more.In the 1h15m conversation we cover:• What is it? • How many people have it? • How contagious is it? • What fraction of people who contract it die?• How likely is it to spread out of control?• What's the range of plausible fatalities worldwide?• How does it compare to other epidemics?• What don't we know and why? • What a...
2020-02-031h 18
Love Your WorkDon't Sleep in Your Kitchen. Don't Meditate With Your Phone.You are what you surround yourself with. When your environment changes, your mind changes with it. We recently talked about how your environment can put you in a creative mental state, when we talked to Donald M. Rattner, on episode 201. But what about the objects you surround yourself with? They're a part of your environment, too. The devices we use are a part of our environment, and the devices we use affect our mental state, too. We're already pretty intentional about how we change our environment for the exact activities we're doing. You cook in...
2019-11-1410 min
80,000 Hours PodcastRob Wiblin on plastic straws, nicotine, doping, & whether changing the long-term is really possibleToday's episode is a compilation of interviews I recently recorded for two other shows, Love Your Work and The Neoliberal Podcast.
If you've listened to absolutely everything on this podcast feed, you'll have heard four interviews with me already, but fortunately I don't think these two include much repetition, and I've gotten a decent amount of positive feedback on both.
First up, I speak with David Kadavy on his show, Love Your Work.
This is a particularly personal and relaxed interview. We talk about all sorts of things, including nicotine gum, plastic straw bans...
2019-09-263h 14
Google DeepMind: The PodcastTowards the futureAI researchers around the world are trying to create a general purpose learning system that can learn to solve a broad range of problems without being taught how. Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind’s Director of Research, describes the journey to get there, and takes Hannah on a whistle-stop tour of DeepMind’s HQ and its research.If you have a question or feedback on the series, message us on Twitter (@DeepMind using the hashtag #DMpodcast) or email us at podcast@deepmind.com.Further reading:OpenAI: An overview of neural networks and the progress that has been...
2019-09-1026 minLove Your Work80,000 Hours to Change the World – Rob WiblinRob Wiblin (@robertwiblin) is the Director of Research at an organization called 80,000 Hours, and host of the 80,000 Hours Podcast. 80,000 hours being the amount of hours you will spend working in a typical career. 80,000 Hours is dedicated to finding out just how effective various careers are, and who is suited for those careers. We all want the work we do to matter. But how do we really know whether the work we do does matter? The foundation of 80,000 Hours is a philosophy called Effective Altruism. The EA community asks tough questions about what are the most...
2019-08-012h 18
The New Liberal PodcastGood at Doing Good: Effective Altruism ft. Robert WiblinRobert Wiblin from 80000hours.org joins the podcast to discuss Effective Altruism. Robert and Jeremiah discuss whether we should focus on the long term or the short term with our work, and which areas of politics are the highest leverage areas for helping people. If you enjoy the podcast, please consider supporting us at Patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, newsletters, and our sticker-of-the-month club and community Slack.
2019-06-2159 min
80,000 Hours PodcastRob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical lifeThis is a cross-post of some interviews Rob did recently on two other podcasts — Mission Daily (from 2m) and The Good Life (from 1h13m).
Some of the content will be familiar to regular listeners — but if you’re at all interested in Rob’s personal thoughts, there should be quite a lot of new material to make listening worthwhile.
The first interview is with Chad Grills. They focused largely on new technologies and existential risks, but also discuss topics like:
• Why Rob is wary of fiction
• Egalitarianism in the evolution of hunter gatherers
• How to s...
2019-05-142h 18
Mission DailyFacing Existential Risks with Rob WiblinWhat major disasters can cause the extinction of the human race? It’s not a question the average person considers on a regular basis, but it’s one that Rob Wiblin attempts to answer every day. Rob is the Director of Research at 80,000 Hours, an organization which aims to find the highest-impact ways for talented graduates to do good through their career. In today’s interview, he joins Chad to talk about the future of technology, politics, and humanity. He also shares how 80,000 Hours is helping get more people to think about finding a career that has a real...
2019-04-251h 15The Good Life: Andrew Leigh in Conversation85. Rob Wiblin on effective altruism and making the most of your 80,000 hoursRob Wiblin on effective altruism and making the most of your 80,000 hours.
To find Rob's 80,000 Hours podcasts, and learn more about his work with 80,000 Hours, click here.
2019-03-141h 08
80,000 Hours PodcastJulia Galef and Rob Wiblin on an updated view of the best ways to help humanityThis is a cross-post of an interview Rob did with Julia Galef on her podcast Rationally Speaking. Rob and Julia discuss how the career advice 80,000 Hours gives has changed over the years, and the biggest misconceptions about our views.
The topics will be familiar to the most fervent fans of this show — but we think that if you’ve listened to less than about half of the episodes we've released so far, you’ll find something new to enjoy here. Julia may be familiar to you as the guest on episode 7 of the show, way back in...
2019-02-1756 min
Teeme head paremini!Holger Kiigega efektiivse altruismi filosoofiast ja vastuväidetestRisto Uuk rääkis selles taskuhäälingu osas Holger Kiigega, kes on Tallinna Tehnikakõrgkooli filosoofia lektor ja Tallinna Ülikooli filosoofia doktorant. Nad vestlesid efektiivse altruismi filosoofiast ja liikumisest, efektiivsest altruismist kui tagajärje-eetikast, põhjustest efektiivse altruismiga tegelemiseks, võimalikest vastuväidetest efektiivsele altruismile ja ka sellest, kuidas karjääri läbi võimalikult palju head teha.
Allikad, mis vestlust toetasid või jutuks tulid:
- Efektiivse altruismi raamat “Doing Good Better”: https://www.kriso.ee/doing-good-better-how-effective-altruism-db-9781592409662.html
- Efektiivse altruismi raamatu “Doing Good Better” arvustus: https://novaator.err.ee/693795/raamatuarvustus-kuidas-teha-head-paremini
- William MacAskill efektiivse altruismi olulisusest: https://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewco...
2019-02-141h 11
Rationally Speaking PodcastRationally Speaking #226 - Rob Wiblin on "An updated view of the best ways to help humanity"If you want to do as much good as possible with your career, what problems should you work on, and what jobs should you consider? This episode features Rob Wiblin, director of research for effective altruist organization 80,000 Hours, and the host of the 80,000 Hours podcast. Julia and Rob discuss how the career advice 80,000 Hours gives has changed over the years, and the biggest misconceptions about their views. Their conversation covers topics like: - Should everyone try to get a job in finance and donate their income? - The case for working to reduce global catastrophic risks - Why reducing risk...
2019-02-0553 min
80,000 Hours Podcast#6 Classic episode - Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything elseRebroadcast: this episode was originally released in September 2017.
Of all the people whose well-being we should care about, only a small fraction are alive today. The rest are members of future generations who are yet to exist. Whether they’ll be born into a world that is flourishing or disintegrating – and indeed, whether they will ever be born at all – is in large part up to us. As such, the welfare of future generations should be our number one moral concern.
This conclusion holds true regardless of whether your moral framework is based on common...
2018-12-1400 min
Conversations with TylerRob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*In this special episode, Rob Wiblin of 80,000 Hours has the super-sized conversation he wants to have with Tyler about Stubborn Attachments. In addition to a deep examination of the ideas in the book, the conversation ranges far and wide across Tyler's thinking, including why we won't leave the galaxy, the unresolvable clash between the claims of culture and nature, and what Tyrone would have to say about the book, and more. Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links. Recorded September 21st, 2018 Other ways to connect Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Follo...
2018-10-162h 30
80,000 Hours PodcastRob Wiblin on the art/science of a high impact careerToday's episode is a cross-post of an interview I did with The Jolly Swagmen Podcast which came out this week. I recommend regular listeners skip to 24 minutes in to avoid hearing things they already know. Later in the episode I talk about my contrarian views, utilitarianism, how 80,000 Hours has changed and will change in the future, where I think EA is performing worst, how to use social media most effectively, and whether or not effective altruism is any sacrifice.
Subscribe and get the episode by searching for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app.
Blog post of the...
2018-06-081h 31
Future of Life Institute Podcast80,000 Hours with Rob Wiblin and Brenton MayerIf you want to improve the world as much as possible, what should you do with your career? Should you become a doctor, an engineer or a politician? Should you try to end global poverty, climate change, or international conflict? These are the questions that the research group, 80,000 Hours tries to answer. They try to figure out how individuals can set themselves up to help as many people as possible in as big a way as possible.
To learn more about their research, Ariel invited Rob Wiblin and Brenton Mayer of 80,000 Hours to the FLI podcast. In this podcast we...
2017-09-2958 min
Future of Life Institute Podcast80,000 Hours with Rob Wiblin and Brenton MayerIf you want to improve the world as much as possible, what should you do with your career? Should you become a doctor, an engineer or a politician? Should you try to end global poverty, climate change, or international conflict? These are the questions that the research group, 80,000 Hours tries to answer. They try to figure out how individuals can set themselves up to help as many people as possible in as big a way as possible.
To learn more about their research, Ariel invited Rob Wiblin and Brenton Mayer of 80,000 Hours to the FLI podcast. In this podcast we...
2017-09-2958 min
80,000 Hours Podcast#2 - David Spiegelhalter on risk, stats and improving understanding of scienceRecorded in 2015 by Robert Wiblin with colleague Jess Whittlestone at the Centre for Effective Altruism, and recovered from the dusty 80,000 Hours archives. David Spiegelhalter is a statistician at the University of Cambridge and something of an academic celebrity in the UK. Part of his role is to improve the public understanding of risk - especially everyday risks we face like getting cancer or dying in a car crash. As a result he’s regularly in the media explaining numbers in the news, trying to assist both ordinary people and politicians focus on the important risks we f...
2017-06-2133 min
80,000 Hours Podcast#1 - Miles Brundage on the world's desperate need for AI strategists and policy expertsRobert Wiblin, Director of Research at 80,000 Hours speaks with Miles Brundage, research fellow at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. Miles studies the social implications surrounding the development of new technologies and has a particular interest in artificial general intelligence, that is, an AI system that could do most or all of the tasks humans could do.
This interview complements our profile of the importance of positively shaping artificial intelligence and our guide to careers in AI policy and strategy
Full transcript, apply for personalised coaching to work on AI strategy, see what questions are...
2017-06-0655 min