Podcast Episodes

#125 – Joan Rohlfing on how to avoid catastrophic nuclear blunders

Since the Soviet Union split into different countries in 1991, the pervasive fear of catastrophe that people lived with for decades has gradually fad…

4 years ago

#124 – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions

If someone said a global health and development programme was sustainable, participatory, and holistic, you'd have to guess that they were saying som…

4 years ago

#123 – Samuel Charap on why Putin invaded Ukraine, the risk of escalation, and how to prevent disaster

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is devastating the lives of Ukrainians, and so long as it continues there's a risk that the conflict could escalate to i…

4 years ago

#122 – Michelle Hutchinson & Habiba Islam on balancing competing priorities and other themes from our 1-on-1 careers advising

One of 80,000 Hours' main services is our free one-on-one careers advising, which we provide to around 1,000 people a year. Today we speak to two of …

4 years ago

Introducing 80k After Hours

Today we're launching a new podcast called 80k After Hours.

Like this show it’ll mostly still explore the best ways to do good — and some episodes w…

4 years, 1 month ago

#121 – Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit's fallacy and how much military intervention can be used for good

If you read polls saying that the public supports a carbon tax, should you believe them? According to today's guest — journalist and blogger Matthew …

4 years, 1 month ago

#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy

In 2014 Taiwan was rocked by mass protests against a proposed trade agreement with China that was about to be agreed without the usual Parliamentary …

4 years, 2 months ago

#43 Classic episode - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in September 2018.

In Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film Dr. Strangelove, the American president is infor…

4 years, 2 months ago

#35 Classic episode - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in June 2018.

How broken is the world? How inefficient is a typical organisation? Looking at Tara M…

4 years, 2 months ago

#67 Classic episode – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in December 2019.

What is it like to be you right now? You're seeing this text on the screen, smell…

4 years, 3 months ago