80,000 Hours Podcast

#142 – John McWhorter on key lessons from linguistics, the virtue of creoles, and language extinction

#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well

My experience with imposter syndrome — and how to (partly) overcome it (Article)

Rob's thoughts on the FTX bankruptcy

#140 – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn't in decline

#139 — Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value

Preventing an AI-related catastrophe (Article)

#138 – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter

#137 – Andreas Mogensen on whether effective altruism is just for consequentialists

#136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future

#135 – Samuel Charap on key lessons from five months of war in Ukraine

#134 – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us

This podcast delves into various topics, including the meaning of geography, the evolution of values, the role of fossil fuels, the impact of technology, the issue of nuclear weapons, the axial age, and the dangers of technological advancements. Ian Morris, an author and historian, also discusses macro history myths, d...

#133 – Max Tegmark on how a 'put-up-or-shut-up' resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection

#132 – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems

#131 – Lewis Dartnell on getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world

#130 – Will MacAskill on balancing frugality with ambition, whether you need longtermism, & mental health under pressure

#129 – James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination

#128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen

#127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good

#126 – Bryan Caplan on whether lazy parenting is OK, what really helps workers, and betting on beliefs