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    80,000 Hours Podcast

    80,000 Hours Podcast

    80,000 Hours Podcast

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    Length:
    236 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them.

    Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts.

    Produced by Keiran Harris. Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 236 episodes

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

    "I work in a place called Uttar Pradesh, which is a state in India with 240 million peo...

    78 minutes
    		May 01, 2024

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

    "The constraint right now on factory farming is how far can you push the biology of the...

    153 minutes
    		Apr 18, 2024

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

    Many of you will have heard of Zvi Mowshowitz as a superhuman information-absorbing-and...

    211 minutes
    		Apr 11, 2024

    AI governance and policy (Article)

    Today’s release is a reading of our career review of AI governance and policy, written ...

    51 minutes
    		Mar 28, 2024

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

    "When a friend comes to me with a decision, and they want my thoughts on it, very rarel...

    156 minutes
    		Mar 14, 2024

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

    "[One] thing is just to spend time thinking about the kinds of things animals can do an...

    141 minutes
    		Mar 08, 2024

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

    "The question I care about is: What do I want to do? Like, when I'm 80, how strong do I...

    97 minutes
    		Mar 01, 2024

    #180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated

    The World Economic Forum’s global risks survey of 1,400 experts, policymakers, and indu...

    156 minutes
    		Feb 21, 2024

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

    Mental health problems like depression and anxiety affect enormous numbers of people an...

    176 minutes
    		Feb 12, 2024

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

    "I think at various times — before you have the kid, after you have the kid — it's usef...

    142 minutes
    		Feb 01, 2024