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A collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, specifically selected to help listeners get up to speed on effective altruism as quickly as possible.
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A collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, designed to bring you up to speed on ten pressing issues the effective altruism community is working to solve.
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A compilation of ten key episodes on artificial intelligence and related topics from 80,000 Hours. Together they'll help you learn about how AI looks from a broadly longtermist, existential risk, or effective altruism flavoured point of view.
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The 80000 Hours Career Guide — Find a fulfilling career that does good
Benjamin Todd & the 80,000 Hours team
Coming September 4: an audio version of the 2023 80,000 Hours Career Guide also available on Amazon, Audible, and free on our website (https://80000hours.org/career-guide/). It contains 11 chapters, from 'What makes for a dream job?' to 'Which jobs help people the most?' to 'What’s the best way to gain connections?' It also has 9 appendices on a range of topics like 'All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job' and 'is it ever OK to take a harmful job in or ...
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Clearer Thinking is a podcast about ideas that truly matter. If you enjoy learning about powerful, practical concepts and frameworks, wish you had more deep, intellectual conversations in your life, or are looking for non-BS self-improvement, then we think you'll love this podcast! Each week we invite a brilliant guest to bring four important ideas to discuss for an in-depth conversation. Topics include psychology, society, behavior change, philosophy, science, artificial intelligence, math, ...
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Welcome to The Human Experience Podcast. A place where we explore the full potential of life on Earth.
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Join us as we explore how to use our resources to do the most good. Learn more about effective giving, high impact charities, philanthropy, and effective altruism.
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Attention is power and creators harness it better than anyone else. But they’re not using that attention to create the biggest impact possible and are vastly under monetized. Host’s Rachel Rodgers and Nathan Barry believe you can be a Billion Dollar Creator. Sounds impossible? Over the last 10 years they’ve followed each other on their quests to build billion dollar companies. They’ve studied creators and seen how entrepreneurs build traditional audiences and use them as a launching pad for ...
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Gist.fm peeks into the bookshelves of successful entrepreneurs and remarkable thinkers pulling out those ideas you wish you’d heard before and the ones you need to hear again. We pick timely and timeless pieces of nonfiction and boil them down to 20 minutes with the help of their authors and professional voice actors. Learn how FBI hostage negotiators handle difficult conversations; what a study of 80,000 managers tells us about hiring and motivating people; what most productivity hacks gros ...
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Patrick Jones is a health and wellness consultant, dad of 5 kids, and co-author of forthcoming book “For The Win” with Rudy Ruettiger from the hit movie Rudy. He is the one of the nation’s leading experts on inspiring individuals to take control of their health through nutrition and exercise. He hosts top rated weekly podcast, ‘The Binge-Free Dad Show ’ where he shares is passion of health and past struggles of binge eating to the world. He is a licensed nutritionist and certified eating psy ...
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#196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter
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"In the 1980s, it was still apparently common to perform surgery on newborn babies without anaesthetic on both sides of the Atlantic. This led to appalling cases, and to public outcry, and to campaigns to change clinical practice. And as soon as [some courageous scientists] looked for evidence, it showed that this practice was completely indefensib…
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#6 - Duey Freeman: The Human Attachment & Development Wizard, Lessons from 80,000 Client Hours
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After 74 years on Earth, 50 years as a therapist, and accumulating over 80,000 client hours, our guest, Duey Freeman, has a lot to say. In a world where we aren't taught how to be in a relationship or navigate life’s challenges, the wisdom Duey shares with us is absolutely essential. Expect to learn: - What attachment is - How to create intimacy wi…
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Highlights: #195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #195 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode: Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them And if y…
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#7 - Blake Chalfant: The Art of Listening, Humanities Role on Earth
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What if the next steps, the answers you seek, and the path ahead was trying to find you? In a culture so deeply entrenched in “doing”, and grinding things out, we have forgotten about the art of listening. What is the purpose of our species? Why are we so different than everyone else? I believe humans are a custodial species, here to create, care f…
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Business Insider: Zero to $100M Guide for Creator-Led Products | 041
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Are you thinking of building or scaling a consumer product company? This week, we’re joined by John Durant, a prolific investor in the health and wellness space as he reveals the proven strategies and insider insights that will catapult your business to new heights. Tune in to discover common pitfalls that both struggling and successful companies e…
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Physical limits and the long-term future (with Anders Sandberg)
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Read the full transcript here. How much energy is needed for GDP growth? Would our civilization have developed at the same rate without fossil fuels? Could we potentially do the same things we're currently doing but with significantly less energy? How different would the world look if we'd developed nuclear energy much earlier? Why can't anything g…
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Highlights: #194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #194 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode: Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government And if …
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Our plan to scale this local newsletter from $80,000 to $500,000 per year | 040
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Are you looking to start or scale a newsletter business? In this episode, Nathan is joined by Marissa Lovell, writer of the ‘From Boise’ newsletter, which generates $87,000 in revenue annually. Nathan helps map out various tactics to expand the newsletter’s subscriber base, strategies for increasing revenue per user through sponsorships, and creati…
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Becoming a goat to avoid existential dread (with Thomas Thwaites)
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Read the full transcript here. How hard is it to construct a toaster from scratch? Do we in modern times individually have more knowledge than individuals living 100 or 1,000 years ago? Should corporations be thought of as a kind of emergent artificial intelligence? To what extent are corporations — and more broadly, whole economies — aligned with …
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#5 - Cameron Rosin: Aligning With Your Path, A Return To Nature
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In a time marked by confusion and lack of clear direction, it is imperative that we find ways to navigate and find our path amidst the noise of the world. On today's show, Cameron Rosin and I drop deep into the intelligence of the body as our instrument of sense-making and reconnecting to what it really means to be human. As Cam states, it is throu…
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AI apocalypticism vs. AI optimism (with Adam Russell)
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Read the full transcript here. What is "apocaloptimism"? Is there a middle ground between apocalypticism and optimism? What are the various camps in the AI safety and ethics debates? What's the difference between "working on AI safety" and "building safe AIs"? Can our social and technological coordination problems be solved only by AI? What is "qua…
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#195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them
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"Computational systems have literally millions of physical and conceptual components, and around 98% of them are embedded into your infrastructure without you ever having heard of them. And an inordinate amount of them can lead to a catastrophic failure of your security assumptions. And because of this, the Iranian secret nuclear programme failed t…
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Build a $100,000+ Creator Business in 2024 (Full Masterclass) | 039
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This week's episode is a masterclass on scaling your creator business to 7 figures and beyond. With insights from industry giants such as Ali Abdaal, Sahil Bloom, Sam Parr, Rachel Rodgers, and many others, we explore the effective strategies and mindsets that have propelled them to remarkable success. These experts have built massive followings and…
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Highlights: #193 – Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #193 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode: Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war And if you're finding these hig…
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#4 - Traver Boehm: The UNcivilized Man, Killing the Nice Guy
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Searching for deeper fulfillment in life and a sense of purpose? Are you ready to stop being the classic nice guy and step into the full power of your manhood? In this enlightening conversation with Traver, he breaks down why so many men today are miserable, and through becoming UNcivilized in our modern world, we can reclaim our powerful, thriving…
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#194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government
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"If you’re a power that is an island and that goes by sea, then you’re more likely to do things like valuing freedom, being democratic, being pro-foreigner, being open-minded, being interested in trade. If you are on the Mongolian steppes, then your entire mindset is kill or be killed, conquer or be conquered … the breeding ground for basically eve…
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I Launched a $20,000 Digital Product in 24 Hours, Here’s How | 038
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Are you leaving money on the table with your product launches? Too many entrepreneurs make critical mistakes that tank their sales and leave them wondering “what went wrong?” In this episode, Nathan coaches Frannie Wilson, co-founder of Ampersand studios, on her upcoming product launch. Tune in to discover promotional tactics that’ll have your audi…
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Highlights: #192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #192 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode: Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US And if you…
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Should we trust papers published in top social science journals? (with Daniel Lakens)
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Read the full transcript here. How much should we trust social science papers in top journals? How do we know a paper is trustworthy? Do large datasets mitigate p-hacking? Why doesn't psychology as a field seem to be working towards a grand unified theory? Why aren't more psychological theories written in math? Or are other scientific fields mathem…
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Off the Clock #5: Leaving 80k with Maria Gutierrez Rojas
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You can check out the video version of this episode on YouTube at https://youtu.be/AUuEaYltONg Matt, Bella, and Cody sit down with Maria Gutierrez Rojas to discuss the 80k’s aesthetics, religion (again), bad billionaires, and why it’s hard to be an org that both gives advice and has opinions.By The 80000 Hours team
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Highlights: #191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #191 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode: Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI And if you're finding these highlights episodes …
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#193 – Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war
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"You don’t necessarily need world-leading compute to create highly risky AI systems. The biggest biological design tools right now, like AlphaFold’s, are orders of magnitude smaller in terms of compute requirements than the frontier large language models. And China has the compute to train these systems. And if you’re, for instance, building a cybe…
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I Helped Ex-YouTube Employee Grow His Business in 52mins | 037
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In this episode, Nathan is joined by Jon Youshaei to explore his content roasting business idea in detail. The concept centers around a premium service where Jon provides in-depth roasts of videos for content creators. Together, Nathan and Jon delve into topics such as newsletter referral schemes, pricing strategies, and value propositions. Get you…
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Is psychology the same across cultures? (with Joseph Henrich)
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What are "WEIRD" cultures? What percentage of the world's population is WEIRD? Why do WEIRD cultures tend to use analytic thinking (as opposed to the wholistic thinking used in non-WEIRD cultures)? Does school make you more intelligent or merely more knowledgeable? Do individualistic cultures tend to innovate more than collectivistic cultures? How …
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#192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US
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"Ring one: total annihilation; no cellular life remains. Ring two, another three-mile diameter out: everything is ablaze. Ring three, another three or five miles out on every side: third-degree burns among almost everyone. You are talking about people who may have gone down into the secret tunnels beneath Washington, DC, escaped from the Capitol an…
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Ex-YouTube Employee on How to Get 100,000 Subscribers FAST | 036
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Many creators aim for fame, but only a few build lasting careers while others quickly fade. What sets the long-term successes apart? This week at Craft & Commerce, Nathan interviews Ex-YouTube employee, Jon Youshaei, to uncover the secrets. They discuss the truth behind captivating social content to stand out in the crowded digital landscape, effec…
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Highlights: #191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #191 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode: Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI And if you're finding these highlight…
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Spencer on The 80,000 Hours Podcast discussing money & happiness and hype vs. value (with Rob Wiblin)
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Read the full transcript here. NOTE: Spencer appeared as a guest on The 80,000 Hours Podcast back in March, and this episode is our release of that recording. Thanks to the folks at The 80,000 Hours Podcast for sharing both their audio and transcript with us! Does money make people happy? What's the difference between life satisfaction and wellbein…
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