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80,000 Hours Podcast
80,000 Hours Podcast
Rob, Luisa, Keiran, 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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#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
#203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation

"In the human case, it would be mistaken to give a kind of hour-by-hour accounting. You know, 'I had +4... more

03 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 25 minutes
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... more

27 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 36 minutes
#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... more

19 Sep 2024 · 2 hours, 20 minutes
80,000 Hours Podcast
#208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world
80,000 Hours Podcast
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