Resources on how to do good with your career — and anything else we here at 80,000 Hours feel like releasing.
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2024-12-13 | We explored the cutting edge of wild animal welfare science our full interview with Cameron Meyer Shorb, executive director of Wild Animal Initiative, including highlights like:One concrete example of how we might improve wild animal welfare (00:00:16)... |
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2024-12-11 |
Highlights: #209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit Nonprofit legal expert Rose Chan Loui lays out the legal case and implications of OpenAI's attempt to shed its nonprofit parent. This episode is a selection of highlights from our full interview with Rose, including:How OpenAI carefully chose a complex... |
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2024-12-05 |
Highlights: #208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world Elizabeth Cox — founder of the independent production company Should We Studio — makes the case that storytelling can improve the world. This episode is a selection of highlights from our full interview with Elizabeth, including:Keiran’s intro (00:00:0... |
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2024-12-02 | Charity founder Sarah Eustis-Guthrie has a candid conversation about her experience starting and running her maternal health charity, and ultimately making the difficult decision to shut down when the programme wasn’t as impactful as they expected. Thi... |
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2024-11-15 |
Highlights: #206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness Neuroscientist Anil Seth explains how much we can learn about consciousness by studying the brain in these highlights from our full interview — including:Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)How our brain interprets reality (00:00:15)How our brain experiences our o... |
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2024-11-12 |
Highlights: #205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do Science writer and video blogger Sébastien Moro blows our minds with the latest research on fish consciousness, intelligence, and potential sentience.This is a selection of highlights from episode #205 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast: Sébastien Moro on the... |
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2024-10-30 | Election forecaster Nate Silver gives his takes on: how effective altruism could be better, the stark tradeoffs we faced with COVID, whether the 13 Keys to the White House is "junk science," how to tell whose election predictions are better, and if ven... |
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2024-10-21 | This is a selection of highlights from our April 2023 episode with host Luisa Rodriguez and producer Keiran Harris on 80k After Hours. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this... |
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2024-10-18 | This is a selection of highlights from episode #203 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:... |
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2024-10-15 | Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/yncw2T77OAcMatt, Bella, and Huon sit down with Conor Barnes to discuss unlikely journeys, EA criticism, discipline, timeless decision theory, and how to do the most good with a degree in classics. Check o... |
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