Article: Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse, and how to avoid them

Article: Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse, and how to avoid them

Today’s release is the second experiment in making audio versions of our articles.

The first was a narration of Greg Lewis’ terrific problem profile on ‘Reducing global catastrophic biological risks’, which you can find on the podcast feed just before episode #74 - that is, our interview with Greg about the piece.

If you want to check out the links in today’s article, you can find those here.

And if you have feedback on these, positive or negative, it’d be great if you could email us at podcast@80000hours.org.

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#35 - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission

"You don't need permission. You don't need to be allowed to do something that's not in your job description. If you think that it's gonna make your company or your organization more successful and mor...

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Rob Wiblin on the art/science of a high impact career

Rob Wiblin on the art/science of a high impact career

Today's episode is a cross-post of an interview I did with The Jolly Swagmen Podcast which came out this week. I recommend regular listeners skip to 24 minutes in to avoid hearing things they already ...

8 Juni 20181h 31min

#34 - We use the worst voting system that exists. Here's how Aaron Hamlin is going to fix it.

#34 - We use the worst voting system that exists. Here's how Aaron Hamlin is going to fix it.

In 1991 Edwin Edwards won the Louisiana gubernatorial election. In 2001, he was found guilty of racketeering and received a 10 year invitation to Federal prison. The strange thing about that election?...

1 Juni 20182h 18min

#33 - Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war

#33 - Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war

Joseph Stalin had a life-extension program dedicated to making himself immortal. What if he had succeeded?  According to our last guest, Bryan Caplan, there’s an 80% chance that Stalin would still be ...

29 Maj 20181h 24min

#32 - Bryan Caplan on whether his Case Against Education holds up, totalitarianism, & open borders

#32 - Bryan Caplan on whether his Case Against Education holds up, totalitarianism, & open borders

Bryan Caplan’s claim in *The Case Against Education* is striking: education doesn’t teach people much, we use little of what we learn, and college is mostly about trying to seem smarter than other peo...

22 Maj 20182h 25min

#31 - Allan Dafoe on defusing the political & economic risks posed by existing AI capabilities

#31 - Allan Dafoe on defusing the political & economic risks posed by existing AI capabilities

The debate around the impacts of artificial intelligence often centres on ‘superintelligence’ - a general intellect that is much smarter than the best humans, in practically every field. But according...

18 Maj 201848min

#30 - Eva Vivalt on how little social science findings generalize from one study to another

#30 - Eva Vivalt on how little social science findings generalize from one study to another

If we have a study on the impact of a social program in a particular place and time, how confident can we be that we’ll get a similar result if we study the same program again somewhere else? Dr Eva V...

15 Maj 20182h 1min

#29 - Anders Sandberg on 3 new resolutions for the Fermi paradox & how to colonise the universe

#29 - Anders Sandberg on 3 new resolutions for the Fermi paradox & how to colonise the universe

Part 2 out now: #33 - Dr Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war The universe is so vast, yet we don’t see any alien civilizations. If they exist, whe...

8 Maj 20181h 21min

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