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This is a selection of highlights from episode #199 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:

Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #198 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:

Meghan Barrett on challenging our assumptions about insects

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #197 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:

Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic’s AI safety policy is up to the task

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #196 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:

Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #195 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #194 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #193 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #192 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US

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Matt, Bella, and Cody sit down with Maria Gutierrez Rojas to discuss the 80k’s aesthetics, religion (again), bad billionaires, and why it’s hard to be an org that both gives advice and has opinions.

This is a selection of highlights from episode #191 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #191 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #190 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #189 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #188 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Matt Clancy on whether science is good

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Matt, Bella, and Cody sit down with Julian Hazell to discuss the UK recession, religion, higher education, and whether being an amateur swordfighter should give you the right to vote.

This is a selection of highlights from episode #187 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a “space bastard”

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #186 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #185 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #184 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT

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Matt Reardon, Arden Koehler, and Huon Porteous sit down with Dwarkesh Patel to find out how you become a world-famous (among tech intellectuals) podcast host at 23. We also discuss how 80k would have advised 21-year-old Dwarkesh and 80k strategy more broadly.

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This is a cross-post of an interview Rob Wiblin did on Robert Wright's Nonzero podcast in January 2024. You can get access to full episodes of that show by subscribing to the Nonzero Newsletter.

They talk about Sam Bankman-Fried, virtue ethics, the growing influence of longtermism, what role EA played in the OpenAI board drama, the culture of local effective altruism groups, where Rob thinks people get EA most seriously wrong, what Rob fears most about rogue AI, the double-edged sword of AI-empowered governments, and flattening the curve of AI's social disruption.

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #183 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #182 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more

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"We really, really want to make sure that nuclear war never breaks out. But we also know — from all of the examples of the Cold War, all these close calls — that it very well could, as long as there are nuclear weapons in the world. So if it does, we want to have some ways of preventing that from turning into a civilisation-threatening, cataclysmic kind of war. And those kinds of interventions — war limitation, intrawar escalation management, civil defence — those are kind of the seatbelts and airbags of the nuclear world. So to borrow a phrase from one of my colle...

This is a selection of highlights from episode #181 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond

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In this episode of our new podcast project, Matt Reardon, Bella Forristal, and Arden Koehler sit down with Joel Becker to find out what’s great about America, what was not so great about FTX, and invite you to port back to the time when Arden might have been CEO.

You can learn more about Joel's current projects at https://joel-becker.com/ and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/joel_bkr

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #180 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #179 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety

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Matt, Bella, and Cody sit down with Chana Messinger to find out what she does, how to insulate ourselves from harsh realities, and whether pub trivia is complete waste of time.

You can find Chana’s long-defunct blog at: https://themerelyreal.wordpress.com/

Update February 20, 2024: The 'steelman' bounty has been claimed!

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #178 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Emily Oster on what the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #177 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Nathan Labenz on recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety and accelerationist camps

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #146 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Robert Long on why large language models like GPT (probably) aren’t conscious

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #176 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Nathan Labenz on the final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI’s leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #175 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #174 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Nita Farahany on the neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate workers

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #173 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Jeff Sebo on digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral catastrophe

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Benjamin Hilton reads his AI safety technical research career review.

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #147 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top journals

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"The very first office we had was just a balcony in an Oxford College dining hall. It was totally open to the dining hall, so every lunch and dinner time it would be super noisy because it'd be like 200 people all eating below us. And then I think we just had a bit where we just didn't have an office, so we worked out of the canteen in the library for at least three months or something. And then it was only after that we moved into this tiny, tiny room at the back of an estate agent off...

This is a selection of highlights from episode #172 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Bryan Caplan on why you should stop reading the news

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #148 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Johannes Ackva on unfashionable climate interventions that work, and fashionable ones that don’t

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #171 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #170 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Santosh Harish on how air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that number down

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #169 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Paul Niehaus on whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to acceptable levels

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #168 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Ian Morris on whether deep history says we’re heading for an intelligence explosion

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #167 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Seren Kell on the research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #166 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Tantum Collins on what he’s learned as an AI policy insider at the White House, DeepMind and elsewhere

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #165 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #164 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Kevin Esvelt on cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt inventing gene drives

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #163 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Toby Ord on the perils of maximising the good that you do

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #162 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Mustafa Suleyman on getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #161 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Michael Webb on whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality — or the opposite

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #160 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Hannah Ritchie on why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #159 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Jan Leike on OpenAI’s massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #158 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they’re no smarter than humans, and his four-part playbook for AI risk

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #157 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Ezra Klein on existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #156 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Markus Anderljung on how to regulate cutting-edge AI models

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #155 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #154 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters

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In this episode of 80k After Hours,  Luisa Rodriguez and Alex Lawsen discuss common mistakes people make when trying to do good with their careers, and advice on how to avoid them.

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #153 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Elie Hassenfeld on two big picture critiques of GiveWell’s approach, and six lessons from their recent work

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #152 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #151 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #150 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world

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In this episode of 80k After Hours,  Luisa Rodriguez and Hannah Boettcher discuss various approaches to therapy, and how to use them in practice — focusing specifically on people trying to have a big impact.

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This is a selection of highlights from episode #149 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads Benjamin Todd and Roman Duda's career review on operations management.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads Benjamin Todd's article on social impact.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads Benjamin Todd's article on how to make tough career decisions.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Luisa Rodriguez and Keiran Harris chat about the consequences of letting go of enduring guilt, shame, anger, and pride.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads Cody Fenwick's journalism career review.

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You might also want to check out historian Daniel Strieff's compilation of more than 20 highly influential pieces of journalism in US history.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Luisa Rodriguez and Robert Long have an honest conversation about the challenges of independent research.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads our career review of China-related AI safety and governance paths.

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You might also want to check out Benjamin Todd and Brian Tse's article on Improving China-Western coordination on global catastrophic risks.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads 11 anonymous responses to the question: "if you want to help prevent an AI-related catastrophe, should you be open to roles that also advance AI capabilities, or steer clear of them?"

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads Benjamin Hilton's problem profile on climate change.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin interviews Marcus Davis about Rethink Priorities.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads Arden Koehler and Benjamin Hilton's problem profile on preventing catastrophic pandemics.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin interviews Kuhan Jeyapragasan about effective altruism university groups.

From 2015 to 2020, Kuhan did an undergrad and then a master's in maths and computer science at Stanford — and did a lot to organise and improve the EA group on campus.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Habiba Islam reads Benjamin Todd's career review on founding new projects tackling top problems.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin interviews Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla about the Shrimp Welfare Project, which he cofounded in 2021. It's the first project in the world focused on shrimp welfare specifically and now has six full-time staff.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Fin Moorhouse reads his problem profile on space governance.

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If you want to hear more from Fin, you should check out his podcast Hear This Idea, which showcases new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. And you can see a bunch of other things he's up to on his website.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin interviews Clay Graubard and Robert de Neufville about forecasting the war between Russia and Ukraine.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours — Rob continues to interview his 80,000 Hours colleagues Michelle Hutchinson and Habiba Islam about the 1-1 team.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Habiba Islam reads Benjamin Todd’s article “Be More Ambitious: a rational case for dreaming big (if you want to do good)”.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Keiran Harris interviews 80,000 Hours advisor (and former high school teacher) Alex Lawsen about his advice for students.

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In this episode of 80k After Hours, Rob Wiblin and Keiran Harris are interviewed by Kearney Capuano and ​​Aaron Bergman of the new podcast ‘All Good’ about what goes on behind-the-scenes at the 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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80k After Hours is a podcast by the team that brings you The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

Here Rob Wiblin and Keiran Harris briefly explain what to expect from the new show.