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

But another is just that it hasn't happened yet, and there's no way to really calculate what the probability is of the event or how severe it would be.

And in the absence of any of that information, you know, you can't calculate what an insurance premium could be.

It's an actuarial problem, right?

It's like you need the data in order to price the insurance.

But with these need-based transfer networks...

You can at least have them in place for any kinds of needs that arise unpredictably.

Now, whether the system will be able to effectively handle that, those is another question, but you at least are able to set up systems that can deal with things that have never happened before that we can't even understand what the risks are like.

Yeah, I mean, I think no matter where you live, having, you know, 72 hours of supplies is wise.

And you can actually do this in a way that makes sense for having a very busy lifestyle, which is something that I love.

So, you know, if you sort of...

And it's like, you know, apocalypse casual lifestyle.

Like, how do you do this?

Well, like, for example, you know, if you like couscous, couscous is a great food to have around.

Not only can you prepare it very quickly on a weeknight if you need something to eat, but it stores well and you actually don't even need hot water to prepare it.

You just you can just add water to it and let it sit for like a half an hour and then you could eat it.

So if, you know, if couscous is something that like you're fine with, then you can just make sure to buy enough couscous at the store that you could, you know, at least have it be part of what you would be eating for those 72 hours.

And whenever you buy a new one, you put it at the back and you just have like some extras.

And then, you know, like it also makes it easier when you're super busy and you don't have time to go to the store.

You're like, oh, I got my 72 hours of preps.

I mean, obviously next time you go to the store, you want to like re-up.

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