Podcast Episodes

#92 – Brian Christian on the alignment problem

Brian Christian is a bestselling author with a particular knack for accurately communicating difficult or technical ideas from both mathematics and c…

5 years ago

#91 – Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened

I suspect today's guest, Lewis Bollard, might be the single best person in the world to interview to get an overview of all the methods that might be…

5 years, 1 month ago

Rob Wiblin on how he ended up the way he is

This is a crosspost of an episode of the Eureka Podcast.

The interviewer is Misha Saul, a childhood friend of Rob's, who he has known for over 20 ye…

5 years, 2 months ago

#90 – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be

You wake up in a mysterious box, and hear the booming voice of God:

“I just flipped a coin. If it came up heads, I made ten boxes, labeled 1 throug…

5 years, 2 months ago

Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics

This is a crosspost of an episode of the Clearer Thinking Podcast: 022: Self-Improvement and Research Ethics with Rob Wiblin.

Rob chats with Spence…

5 years, 2 months ago

#73 - Phil Trammell on patient philanthropy and waiting to do good [re-release]

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in March 2020.

To do good, most of us look to use our time and money to affect the world around us…

5 years, 2 months ago

#75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours [re-release]

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in April 2020.

Since it was founded, 80,000 Hours has done one-on-one calls to supplement our onli…

5 years, 3 months ago

#89 – Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems and layers of defense against potential global catastrophes

From one point of view academia forms one big 'epistemic' system — a process which directs attention, generates ideas, and judges which are good. Tra…

5 years, 3 months ago

#88 – Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies

In its first 28 days on Netflix, the documentary The Social Dilemma — about the possible harms being caused by social media and other technology prod…

5 years, 4 months ago

Benjamin Todd on what the effective altruism community most needs (80k team chat #4)

In the last '80k team chat' with Ben Todd and Arden Koehler, we discussed what effective altruism is and isn't, and how to argue for it. In this epis…

5 years, 4 months ago