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80,000 Hours Podcast
80,000 Hours Podcast
Rob, Luisa, and the 80,000 Hours team

Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them. Subscribe by searching for '80000... more

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#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... more

19 Dec 2024 · 3 hours, 25 minutes
#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... more

29 Nov 2024 · 3 hours, 21 minutes
#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... more

27 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 22 minutes
#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... more

21 Nov 2024 · 2 hours, 22 minutes
#207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more founders should follow her lead

"I think one of the reasons I took [shutting down my charity] so hard is because entrepreneurship is all about... more

14 Nov 2024 · 2 hours, 58 minutes
Bonus: Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests

With kids very much on the team's mind we thought it would be fun to review some comments about parenting... more

08 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 35 minutes
#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... more

01 Nov 2024 · 2 hours, 33 minutes
How much does a vote matter? (Article)

If you care about social impact, is voting important? In this piece, Rob investigates the two key things that determine... more

28 Oct 2024 · 32 minutes
#205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do

"You have a tank split in two parts: if the fish gets in the compartment with a red circle, it... more

23 Oct 2024 · 3 hours, 11 minutes
#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... more

16 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 57 minutes
80,000 Hours Podcast
#211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn't fixed and what would actually work
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