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
- 2024-11-20 18:58
- last episode published
- 2024-11-14 20:04
- publication frequency
- 10.59 days
- Contributors
- Rob, Luisa, Keiran, and the 80,000 Hours team
- Author
- The 80,000 Hours Podcast
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 261
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Education Technology
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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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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| 2024-10-03 | "In the human case, it would be mistaken to give a kind of hour-by-hour accounting. You know, “I had +4 level of experience for this hour, then I had -2 for the next hour, and then I had -1” — and you sort of sum to try to work out the total… And I cam... |
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| 2024-09-27 |
Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame In this episode from our second show, 80k After Hours, Luisa Rodriguez and Keiran Harris chat about the consequences of letting go of enduring guilt, shame, anger, and pride.Links to learn more, highlights, and full transcript.They cover:Keiran’s views... |
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| 2024-09-19 |
#202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science "For every far-out idea that turns out to be true, there were probably hundreds that were simply crackpot ideas. In general, [science] advances building on the knowledge we have, and seeing what the next questions are, and then getting to the next stag... |
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| 2024-09-13 | "Perception is quite difficult with cameras: even if you have a stereo camera, you still can’t really build a map of where everything is in space. It’s just very difficult. And I know that sounds surprising, because humans are very good at this. In fac... |
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