80,000 Hours Podcast
Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Produced by Keiran Harris. Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.
- Website
- https://80000hours.org/podcast/
- Description
- Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Produced by Keiran Harris. Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-20 22:02
- last episode published
- 2024-12-19 17:17
- publication frequency
- 10.56 days
- Contributors
- Rob, Luisa, Keiran, and the 80,000 Hours team
- Author
- The 80,000 Hours Podcast
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 265
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Education Technology
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-19 |
#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work Rich countries seem to find it harder and harder to do anything that creates some losers. People who don’t want houses, offices, power stations, trains, subway stations (or whatever) built in their area can usually find some way to block them, even if ... |
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| 2024-11-29 |
#210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals "I really don’t want to give the impression that I think it is easy to make predictable, controlled, safe interventions in wild systems where there are many species interacting. I don’t think it’s easy, but I don’t see any reason to think that it’s imp... |
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| 2024-11-27 |
#209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit One OpenAI critic calls it “the theft of at least the millennium and quite possibly all of human history.” Are they right?Back in 2015 OpenAI was but a humble nonprofit. That nonprofit started a for-profit, OpenAI LLC, but made sure to retain ownership... |
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| 2024-11-21 |
#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world "I think stories are the way we shift the Overton window — so widen the range of things that are acceptable for policy and palatable to the public. Almost by definition, a lot of things that are going to be really important and shape the future are not... |
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| 2024-11-14 | "I think one of the reasons I took [shutting down my charity] so hard is because entrepreneurship is all about this bets-based mindset. So you say, “I’m going to take a bunch of bets. I’m going to take some risky bets that have really high upside.” And... |
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| 2024-11-08 | With kids very much on the team's mind we thought it would be fun to review some comments about parenting featured on the show over the years, then have hosts Luisa Rodriguez and Rob Wiblin react to them. Links to learn more and full transcript.After h... |
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| 2024-11-01 |
#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness "In that famous example of the dress, half of the people in the world saw [blue and black], half saw [white and gold]. It turns out there’s individual differences in how brains take into account ambient light. Colour is one example where it’s pretty cl... |
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| 2024-10-28 | Today we're re-releasing: If you care about social impact, why is voting important? In it, Rob investigates the two key things that determine the impact of your vote:The chances of your vote changing an election’s outcome.How much better some candidate... |
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| 2024-10-23 | "You have a tank split in two parts: if the fish gets in the compartment with a red circle, it will receive food, and food will be delivered in the other tank as well. If the fish takes the blue triangle, this fish will receive food, but nothing will b... |
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| 2024-10-16 |
#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism Rob Wiblin speaks with FiveThirtyEight election forecaster and author Nate Silver about his new book: On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.Links to learn more, highlights, video, and full transcript.On the Edge explores a cultural grouping Nate d... |
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