Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours Podcast
1) Effective altruism in a nutshell
Effective Altruism: An Introduction is a collection of ten top episodes of The 80,000 Hours Podcast specifically selected to help listeners quickly get up to speed on the school of thought known as ef...Show More
2) One: Holden Karnofsky on times philanthropy transformed the world & Open Phil's plan to do the same
Both the Green Revolution and the contraceptive pill are widely recognised as scientific breakthroughs that transformed the world. But few know that those breakthroughs only happened when they did bec...Show More
3) Two: Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it
Toby Ord makes the case that of all the people whose well-being we should care about, only a small fraction are alive today. The rest are members of future generations who are yet to exist. Whether th...Show More
4) Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
The effective altruist research community tries to identify the highest impact things people can do to improve the world. Unsurprisingly, given the difficulty of such a massive and open-ended project,...Show More
Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
2:53:44 | Apr 12th, 2021
5) Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions
Spencer Greenberg, founder of ClearerThinking.org has a process for working out real life problems.
Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions
2:17:12 | Apr 12th, 2021
6) Five: Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster
If we accept that we’re probably making major moral errors, how should we proceed?
7) Six: Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be
Imagine that humanity has two possible futures ahead of it: Either we’re going to have a huge future like that, in which trillions of people ultimately exist, or we’re going to wipe ourselves out quit...Show More
Six: Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be
2:56:27 | Apr 12th, 2021
8) Seven: Prof Tetlock on why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how you can do it better
Have you ever been infuriated by a doctor's unwillingness to give you an honest, probabilistic estimate about what to expect? Or a lawyer who won't tell you the chances you'll win your case?
9) Eight: Prof Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions
The barista gives you your coffee and change, and you walk away from the busy line. But you suddenly realise she gave you $1 less than she should have. Do you brush your way past the people now waitin...Show More
10) Nine: Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours
The 80,000 Hours Podcast is about “the world’s most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them”, and in this episode we tackle that question in the most direct way possible.