Athena Aktipis

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena · 9 Jan 2026 podcast

So it's, it's, it's a really fun, fun way for the students to kind of learn about these ideas of genetic conflict and in particular parent offspring conflict.

So, yeah.

Yeah.

And when we play it, you know, it's just like a parent and then offspring because it, you know, it's really the same, the same dynamics.

If you just have one individual, that's basically like,

Yeah.

I'm so glad too.

And you know what though?

I will add though that like...

It can be really funny.

And like from teaching in my class and using these games, the students have a lot of fun and end up making lots of jokes that I think like there's – I think anytime you have tension, you have conflict, we like humans, we like to learn about that and engage about that because it's really important for us to understand how those things work.

Yeah.

And so I think it can like I think there's a sort of sense in which maybe, you know, it's inherently rewarding to think and talk about it in in terms that are humorous because it does allow us to like wrap our heads around it.

But without taking it so seriously that, you know, it has to make us depressed.

Yes.

So the book, it's called Everything is Fine!

How to Thrive in the Apocalypse.

And it's meant to be both sort of serious and ironic.

Like, yes, everything is fine on some level.

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