Episodes
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We explored the cutting edge of wild animal welfare science our full interview with Cameron Meyer Shorb, executive director of Wild Animal Initiative, including highlights like:
One concrete example of how we might improve wild animal welfare (00:00:16)How many wild animals are there, and which animals are they? (00:04:24)Why might wild animals be suffering? (00:08:40)The objection that we shouldn't meddle in nature because nature is good (00:12:25)Vaccines for wild animals (00:17:37)Gene drive technologies (00:20:50)Optimising for high-welfare landscapes (00:24:52)These highlights are from episode #210 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast: Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — so if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode!
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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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Nonprofit legal expert Rose Chan Loui lays out the legal case and implications of OpenAI's attempt to shed its nonprofit parent. This episode is a selection of highlights from our full interview with Rose, including:
How OpenAI carefully chose a complex nonprofit structure (00:00:26)The nonprofit board is out-resourced and in a tough spot (00:04:09)Is control of OpenAI 'priceless' to the nonprofit in pursuit of its mission? (00:06:47)Control of OpenAI is independently incredibly valuable and requires compensation (00:11:06)It's very important that the nonprofit gets cash and not just equity (00:16:06)How the nonprofit board can best play their hand (00:21:20)These highlights are from episode #209 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast: Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — so if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode!
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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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Elizabeth Cox — founder of the independent production company Should We Studio — makes the case that storytelling can improve the world. This episode is a selection of highlights from our full interview with Elizabeth, including:
Keiran’s intro (00:00:00)Empirical evidence of the impact of storytelling (00:00:16)The hits-based approach to storytelling (00:03:35)Debating the merits of thinking about target audiences (00:07:48)Ada vs other approaches to impact-focused storytelling (00:13:15)Why animation? (00:18:56)How long will humans stay relevant as creative writers, given AI advances? (00:22:40)These highlights are from episode #208 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast: Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — so if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode!
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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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Charity founder Sarah Eustis-Guthrie has a candid conversation about her experience starting and running her maternal health charity, and ultimately making the difficult decision to shut down when the programme wasn’t as impactful as they expected. This episode is a selection of highlights from our full interview with Sarah:
Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)What it's like to found a charity (00:00:14)Yellow flags and difficult calls (00:03:17)Disappointing results (00:06:28)The ups and downs of founding an organisation (00:08:37)Entrepreneurship and being willing to make risky bets (00:12:58)Why aren't more charities shutting down? (00:16:50)How to think about shutting down (00:19:39)These highlights are from episode #207 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast: Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more founders should follow her lead. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — so if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode!
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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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Neuroscientist Anil Seth explains how much we can learn about consciousness by studying the brain in these highlights from our full interview — including:
Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)How our brain interprets reality (00:00:15)How our brain experiences our organs (00:04:04)What psychedelics teach us about consciousness (00:07:37)The physical footprint of consciousness in the brain (00:12:10)How to study the neural correlates of consciousness (00:15:37)This is a selection of highlights from episode #206 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast: Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — so if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode!
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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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Science writer and video blogger Sébastien Moro blows our minds with the latest research on fish consciousness, intelligence, and potential sentience.
This is a selection of highlights from episode #205 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast: Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — so if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode.
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Highlights:
Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)The ingenious innovations of Atlantic cod (00:00:19)The mirror test triumph of cleaner wrasses (00:05:46)The astounding accuracy of archerfish (00:10:30)The magnificent memory of gobies (00:14:25)The tactical teamwork of the grouper and moray eel (00:17:42)The remarkable relationships of wild guppies (00:22:01)Sébastien's take on fish consciousness (00:26:48)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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Election forecaster Nate Silver gives his takes on: how effective altruism could be better, the stark tradeoffs we faced with COVID, whether the 13 Keys to the White House is "junk science," how to tell whose election predictions are better, and if venture capitalists really take risks.
This is a selection of highlights from episode #204 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast: Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — so if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode.
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Highlights:
Rob’s intro (00:00:00)Is anyone doing better at "doing good better"? (00:00:29)Is effective altruism too big to succeed? (00:02:19)The stark tradeoffs we faced with COVID (00:06:02)The 13 Keys to the White House (00:07:53)Can we tell whose election predictions are better? (00:11:40)Do venture capitalists really take risks? (00:16:29)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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This is a selection of highlights from our April 2023 episode with host Luisa Rodriguez and producer Keiran Harris on 80k After Hours. 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:
Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
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Highlights:
Keiran’s intro (00:00:00)Jerk Syndrome (00:00:53)The basic case for free will being an illusion (00:05:10)Feeling bad about not being a different person (00:08:29)Implications for the criminal justice system (00:10:57)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #203 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:
Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation
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Highlights:
Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)Thinking about death (00:00:24)Uploads of ourselves (00:05:32)Against intervening in wild nature (00:12:36)Eliminating the worst experiences in wild nature (00:16:15)To be human or wild animal? (00:21:46)Challenges for water-based animals (00:27:38)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/yncw2T77OAc
Matt, Bella, and Huon sit down with Conor Barnes to discuss unlikely journeys, EA criticism, discipline, timeless decision theory, and how to do the most good with a degree in classics.
Check out:
Conor’s 100 Tips for a Better Life: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7hFeMWC6Y5eaSixbD/100-tips-for-a-better-lifeConor’s writing: https://parhelia.conorbarnes.com/Zvi on timeless decision theory: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/scwoBEju75C45W5n3/how-i-lost-100-pounds-using-tdt -
This is a selection of highlights from episode #202 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:
Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science
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Highlights:
Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)Is death an inevitable consequence of evolution? (00:00:15)How much additional healthspan will the next 20 to 30 years of ageing research buy us? (00:03:10)The social impacts of radical life extension (00:05:46)Could increased longevity increase inequality? (00:10:06)Does injecting an old body with young blood slow ageing? (00:14:23)Freezing cells, organs, and bodies (00:18:35)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #201 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:
Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet
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Highlights:
Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)Moravec's paradox (00:00:22)Successes in robotics to date (00:03:51)Why perception is a big challenge for robotics (00:07:02)Why low fault tolerance makes some skills extra hard to automate (00:12:29)How might robot labour affect the job market? (00:17:19)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #200 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:
Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks
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Highlights:
Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)Why we need forecasts about existential risks (00:00:26)Headline estimates of existential and catastrophic risks (00:02:43)What explains disagreements about AI risks? (00:06:18)Learning more doesn't resolve disagreements about AI risks (00:08:59)A lot of disagreement about AI risks is about when AI will pose risks (00:11:31)Cruxes about AI risks (00:15:17)Is forecasting actually useful in the real world? (00:18:24)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #199 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:
Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy
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Highlights:
Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)Why we can't count on AI companies to self-regulate (00:00:21)SB 1047's impact on open source models (00:04:24)Why it's not "too early" for AI policies (00:07:54)Why working on state-level policy could have an outsized impact (00:11:47)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #198 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:
Meghan Barrett on challenging our assumptions about insects
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Highlights:
Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)Size diversity (00:00:16)Offspring, parental investment, and lifespan (00:03:18)Headless cockroaches (00:06:13)Is self-protective behaviour a reflex? (00:08:50)If insects feel pain, is it mild or severe? (00:11:54)Evolutionary perspective on insect sentience (00:16:53)How likely is insect sentience? (00:20:25)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #197 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:
Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic’s AI safety policy is up to the task
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Highlights:
Rob's intro (00:00:00)What Anthropic's responsible scaling policy commits the company to doing (00:00:17)Why Nick is a big fan of the RSP approach (00:02:13)Are RSPs still valuable if the people using them aren't bought in? (00:05:07)Nick's biggest reservations about the RSP approach (00:08:01)Should Anthropic's RSP have wider safety buffers? (00:11:17)Alternatives to RSPs (00:14:57)Should concerned people be willing to take capabilities roles? (00:19:22)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #196 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:
Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter
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Chapters:
Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)The history of neonatal surgery without anaesthetic (00:00:23)Overconfidence around disorders of consciousness (00:03:17)Separating abortion from the issue of foetal sentience (00:07:26)The cases for and against neural organoids (00:11:30)Artificial sentience arising from whole brain emulations of roundworms and fruit flies (00:15:45)Using citizens' assemblies to do policymaking (00:22:00)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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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
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Chapters:
Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)Why protect model weights? (00:00:23)SolarWinds hack (00:03:51)Zero-days (00:08:16)Side-channel attacks (00:11:45)USB cables (00:15:11)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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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
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Chapters:
Rob’s intro (00:00:00)Vitalik's "d/acc" alternative (00:00:14)Biodefence (00:05:31)How much do people actually disagree? (00:09:49)Distrust of authority is a big deal (00:15:09)Info defence and X's Community Notes (00:19:35)Quadratic voting and funding (00:26:22)Vitalik's philosophy of half-assing everything (00:30:32)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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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
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Chapters:
Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)How advanced is Chinese AI? (00:00:25)Is China catching up to the US and UK? (00:05:14)Could China be a source of catastrophic AI risk? (00:07:50)AI enabling human rights abuses and undermining democracy (00:13:53)China's attempts at indigenising its semiconductor supply chain (00:18:14)How the US and UK might coordinate with China (00:20:32)Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong
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