#57 – Tom Kalil on how to do the most good in government
You’re 29 years old, and you’ve just been given a job in the White House. How do you quickly figure out how the US Executive Branch behemoth actually works, so that you can have as much impact as poss...
23 Apr 20192h 50min
#56 - Persis Eskander on wild animal welfare and what, if anything, to do about it
Elephants in chains at travelling circuses; pregnant pigs trapped in coffin sized crates at factory farms; deers living in the wild. We should welcome the last as a pleasant break from the horror, rig...
15 Apr 20192h 57min
#55 – Lutter & Winter on founding charter cities with outstanding governance to end poverty
Governance matters. Policy change quickly took China from famine to fortune; Singapore from swamps to skyscrapers; and Hong Kong from fishing village to financial centre. Unfortunately, many governmen...
31 Mar 20192h 31min
#54 – OpenAI on publication norms, malicious uses of AI, and general-purpose learning algorithms
OpenAI’s Dactyl is an AI system that can manipulate objects with a human-like robot hand. OpenAI Five is an AI system that can defeat humans at the video game Dota 2. The strange thing is they were bo...
19 Mar 20192h 53min
#53 - Kelsey Piper on the room for important advocacy within journalism
“Politics. Business. Opinion. Science. Sports. Animal welfare. Existential risk.” Is this a plausible future lineup for major news outlets? Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and given very little ...
27 Feb 20192h 34min
Julia Galef and Rob Wiblin on an updated view of the best ways to help humanity
This is a cross-post of an interview Rob did with Julia Galef on her podcast Rationally Speaking. Rob and Julia discuss how the career advice 80,000 Hours gives has changed over the years, and the big...
17 Feb 201956min
#52 - Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society
Pro-market economists love to wax rhapsodic about the capacity of markets to pull together the valuable local information spread across all of society about what people want and how to make it. But wh...
8 Feb 20192h 44min
#51 - Martin Gurri on the revolt of the public & crisis of authority in the information age
Politics in rich countries seems to be going nuts. What's the explanation? Rising inequality? The decline of manufacturing jobs? Excessive immigration? Martin Gurri spent decades as a CIA analyst and...
29 Jan 20192h 31min
