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#82 – James Forman Jr on reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system
No democracy has ever incarcerated as many people as the United States. To get its incarceration rate down to the global average, the US would have t…
5 years, 8 months ago
#81 - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments
80,000 Hours, along with many other members of the effective altruism movement, has argued that helping to positively shape the development of artifi…
5 years, 8 months ago
Advice on how to read our advice (Article)
This is the fourth release in our new series of audio articles. If you want to read the original article or check out the links within it, you can fi…
5 years, 9 months ago
#80 – Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it
Stuart Russell, Professor at UC Berkeley and co-author of the most popular AI textbook, thinks the way we approach machine learning today is fundamen…
5 years, 9 months ago
What anonymous contributors think about important life and career questions (Article)
Today we’re launching the final entry of our ‘anonymous answers' series on the website.
It features answers to 23 different questions including “How…
5 years, 9 months ago
#79 – A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles
Today’s guest, New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs, always hated Judge Judy. But after he found out that she was his seventh cousin, he tho…
5 years, 10 months ago
#78 – Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress
Companies use about 300,000 times more computation training the best AI systems today than they did in 2012 and algorithmic innovations have also mad…
5 years, 10 months ago
#77 – Marc Lipsitch on whether we're winning or losing against COVID-19
In March Professor Marc Lipsitch — Director of Harvard's Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics — abruptly found himself a global celebrity, his so…
5 years, 10 months ago
Article: Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse, and how to avoid them
Today’s release is the second experiment in making audio versions of our articles.
The first was a narration of Greg Lewis’ terrific problem profile…
5 years, 10 months ago
#76 – Tara Kirk Sell on misinformation, who's done well and badly, & what to reopen first
Amid a rising COVID-19 death toll, and looming economic disaster, we’ve been looking for good news — and one thing we're especially thankful for is t…
5 years, 10 months ago