80,000 Hours Podcast
Episodes
#15 - Phil Tetlock on how chimps beat Berkeley undergrads and when it’s wise to defer to the wise
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Prof Philip Tetlock is a social science legend. Over forty years he has researched whose predictions we can trust, whose we can’t and why - and deve...
#14 - Sharon Nunez & Jose Valle on going undercover to expose animal abuse
13 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What if you knew that ducks were being killed with pitchforks? Rabbits dumped alive into containers? Or pigs being strangled with forklifts? Would you...
#13 - Claire Walsh on testing which policies work & how to get governments to listen to the results
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In both rich and poor countries, government policy is often based on no evidence at all and many programs don’t work. This has particularly harsh ef...
#12 - Beth Cameron works to stop you dying in a pandemic. Here’s what keeps her up at night.
25 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“When you're in the middle of a crisis and you have to ask for money, you're already too late.” That’s Dr Beth Cameron, who leads Global Biologi...
#11 - Spencer Greenberg on speeding up social science 10-fold & why plenty of startups cause harm
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Do most meat eaters think it’s wrong to hurt animals? Do Americans think climate change is likely to cause human extinction? What is the best, state...
#10 - Nick Beckstead on how to spend billions of dollars preventing human extinction
11 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What if you were in a position to give away billions of dollars to improve the world? What would you do with it? This is the problem facing Program Of...
#9 - Christine Peterson on how insecure computers could lead to global disaster, and how to fix it
04 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Take a trip to Silicon Valley in the 70s and 80s, when going to space sounded like a good way to get around environmental limits, people started cryog...
#8 - Lewis Bollard on how to end factory farming in our lifetimes
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Every year tens of billions of animals are raised in terrible conditions in factory farms before being killed for human consumption. Over the last two...
#7 - Julia Galef on making humanity more rational, what EA does wrong, and why Twitter isn’t all bad
13 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The scientific revolution in the 16th century was one of the biggest societal shifts in human history, driven by the discovery of new and better metho...
#6 - Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it
06 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
#5 - Alex Gordon-Brown on how to donate millions in your 20s working in quantitative trading
28 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Quantitative financial trading is one of the highest paying parts of the world’s highest paying industry. 25 to 30 year olds with outstanding maths ...
#4 - Howie Lempel on pandemics that kill hundreds of millions and how to stop them
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What disaster is most likely to kill more than 10 million human beings in the next 20 years? Terrorism? Famine? An asteroid? Actually it’s probably...
#3 - Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill
21 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Just two years ago OpenAI didn’t exist. It’s now among the most elite groups of machine learning researchers. They’re trying to make an AI that’...
#2 - David Spiegelhalter on risk, stats and improving understanding of science
21 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded in 2015 by Robert Wiblin with colleague Jess Whittlestone at the Centre for Effective Altruism, and recovered from the dusty 80,000 Hours arc...
#1 - Miles Brundage on the world's desperate need for AI strategists and policy experts
05 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Wiblin, Director of Research at 80,000 Hours speaks with Miles Brundage, research fellow at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Insti...
#0 – Introducing the 80,000 Hours Podcast
01 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
80,000 Hours is a non-profit that provides research and other support to help people switch into careers that effectively tackle the world's most pres...