80000_Hours

#187 – How researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a “space...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-05-15 | +20 | 0 comments

#186 – Why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-05-01 | +23 | 0 comments

#185 – The 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-04-30 | +52 | 0 comments

#184 – Sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT (Zvi...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-04-12 | +41 | 0 comments

The truth about effective altruism (Robert Wright & Rob Wiblin on the 80k After...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-04-05 | +19 | 0 comments

Why we’re entering a new nuclear age — and how to reduce the risks (Christian...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-03-27 | +52 | 0 comments

#183 – Causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-03-20 | +7 | 0 comments

#182 – Comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-03-13 | +49 | 0 comments

#181 – The science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond (Laura...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-03-06 | +10 | 0 comments

Open roles at 80,000 Hours: Operations team
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-03-03 | +22 | 0 comments

What are the biggest misconceptions about biosecurity and pandemic risk?
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-02-29 | +98 | 0 comments

#180 – Why gullibility and misinformation are overrated (Hugo Mercier on the...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-02-26 | +15 | 0 comments

#179 – Why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety (Randy...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-02-14 | +12 | 0 comments

#178 – What the evidence actually says about pregnancy and parenting (Emily...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-02-02 | +25 | 0 comments

#177 – Recent AI breakthroughs and navigating the growing rift between AI safety...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-01-31 | +15 | 0 comments

Announcing Niel Bowerman as the next CEO of 80,000 Hours
by 80000_Hours, Robert_Wiblin @ 2024-01-31 | +82 | 0 comments

#176 – The final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI’s leadership drama, and...
by 80000_Hours @ 2024-01-04 | +15 | 0 comments

80,000 Hours spin out announcement and fundraising
by 80000_Hours, Niel_Bowerman @ 2023-12-18 | +74 | 0 comments

#175 – Preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child (Lucia Coulter on the...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-12-15 | +76 | 0 comments

#174 – Neurotechnology already being used to convict criminals and manipulate...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-12-12 | +26 | 0 comments

The history of 80,000 Hours (Benjamin Todd on the 80k After Hours Podcast)
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-12-06 | +15 | 0 comments

#173 – Digital minds, and how to avoid sleepwalking into a major moral...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-11-29 | +43 | 0 comments

80,000 Hours is looking for a new CEO (or to fill a vacancy left by someone...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-11-29 | +56 | 0 comments

#172 – Why you should stop reading the news (Bryan Caplan on the 80,000 Hours...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-11-22 | +20 | 0 comments

80000_Hours's Quick takes
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-11-21 | +7 | 0 comments

#171 – How top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-11-14 | +15 | 0 comments

#170 – How air pollution is responsible for ~12% of global deaths — and how to...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-11-07 | +16 | 0 comments

#169 – On whether cash transfers cause economic growth, and keeping theft to...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-11-01 | +2 | 0 comments

#168 – Whether deep history says we’re heading for an intelligence explosion...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-10-24 | +11 | 0 comments

#167 - The research gaps holding back alternative proteins from mass adoption...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-10-18 | +28 | 0 comments

What he’s learned as an AI policy insider (Tantum Collins on the 80,000 Hours...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-10-13 | +11 | 0 comments

War in space, whether civilizations age, and the best things possible in our...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-10-09 | +10 | 0 comments

Cults that want to kill everyone, stealth vs wildfire pandemics, and how he felt...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-10-04 | +38 | 0 comments

The perils of maximising the good that you do (Toby Ord on the 80,000 Hours...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-09-14 | +12 | 0 comments

Avoiding 10 mistakes people make when pursuing a high-impact career (Alex Lawsen...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-09-11 | +52 | 0 comments

Getting Washington and Silicon Valley to tame AI (Mustafa Suleyman on the 80,000...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-09-04 | +5 | 0 comments

On whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower incomes, and higher inequality —...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-08-25 | +11 | 0 comments

Why it makes sense to be optimistic about the environment (Hannah Ritchie on the...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-08-15 | +44 | 0 comments

OpenAI’s massive push to make superintelligence safe in 4 years or less (Jan...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-08-08 | +32 | 0 comments

Four part playbook for dealing with AI (Holden Karnofsky on the 80,000 Hours...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-08-02 | +9 | 0 comments

Existential risk from AI and what DC could do about it (Ezra Klein on the 80,000...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-07-26 | +31 | 0 comments

The mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact (Hannah...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-07-19 | +59 | 0 comments

How to regulate cutting-edge AI models (Markus Anderljung on The 80,000 Hours...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-07-11 | +25 | 0 comments

On the compute governance era and what has to come after (Lennart Heim on The...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-06-23 | +37 | 0 comments

On DeepMind and Trying to Fairly Hear Out Both AI Doomers and Doubters (Rohin...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-06-12 | +28 | 0 comments

Two Big-Picture Critiques of GiveWell's Approach, and Six Lessons from Their...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-06-05 | +52 | 0 comments

On navigating serious philosophical confusion (Joe Carlsmith on The 80,000 Hours...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-05-22 | +25 | 0 comments

Accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us (Ajeya Cotra on The 80,000 Hours...
by 80000_Hours, Luisa_Rodriguez, Ajeya @ 2023-05-15 | +37 | 0 comments

How quickly AI could transform the world (Tom Davidson on The 80,000 Hours...
by 80000_Hours, Luisa_Rodriguez, Tom_Davidson @ 2023-05-08 | +82 | 0 comments

How altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating (Tim LeBon on The 80,000 Hours...
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-04-12 | +59 | 0 comments

80,000 Hours two-year review: 2021–2022
by 80000_Hours @ 2023-03-08 | +92 | 0 comments

My thoughts on parenting and having an impactful career
by 80000_Hours, Michelle_Hutchinson @ 2023-01-23 | +231 | 0 comments

80,000 Hours career review: Information security in high-impact areas
by 80000_Hours, Cody_Fenwick @ 2023-01-16 | +56 | 0 comments

Open position at 80,000 Hours: Recruiter
by 80000_Hours @ 2022-10-20 | +35 | 0 comments

Fill out this census of everyone who could ever see themselves doing longtermist...
by 80000_Hours, Niel_Bowerman, Nick_Beckstead, Benjamin Hilton @ 2022-06-21 | +219 | 0 comments

80,000 Hours is hiring writers!
by 80000_Hours @ 2022-04-25 | +22 | 0 comments

80,000 Hours is hiring an operations specialist
by 80000_Hours @ 2022-03-15 | +11 | 0 comments

Expression of interest for a writer at 80,000 Hours
by 80000_Hours @ 2022-03-14 | +13 | 0 comments

Expression of interest for a popular writing consultant at 80,000 Hours
by 80000_Hours @ 2022-03-03 | +10 | 0 comments

Expression of interest for a research assistant at 80,000 Hours
by 80000_Hours @ 2022-03-03 | +10 | 0 comments

Introducing 80k After Hours
by 80000_Hours, Keiran_Harris @ 2022-03-01 | +98 | 0 comments

Be more ambitious: a rational case for dreaming big (if you want to do good)
by 80000_Hours @ 2022-02-28 | +15 | 0 comments

Maha Rehman on working with governments to rapidly deliver masks to millions of...
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-10-25 | +11 | 0 comments

Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-10-21 | +26 | 0 comments

Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its...
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-10-08 | +41 | 0 comments

Launching 'Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems'
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-10-06 | +29 | 0 comments

Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government...
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-09-30 | +27 | 0 comments

Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-09-23 | +10 | 0 comments

Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-09-10 | +15 | 0 comments

Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-08-27 | +5 | 0 comments

Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-08-19 | +6 | 0 comments

Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct...
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-08-12 | +42 | 0 comments

Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-08-04 | +5 | 0 comments

Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of...
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-07-29 | +20 | 0 comments

Max Roser on building the world's first great source of COVID-19 data at Our...
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-07-29 | +19 | 0 comments

Pardis Sabeti on the Sentinel system for detecting and stopping pandemics
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-07-29 | +13 | 0 comments

A (free) weekly career planning course for positive impact
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-07-01 | +7 | 0 comments

Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-05-27 | +7 | 0 comments

Lewis Bollard on big wins against factory farming and how they happened
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-05-24 | +12 | 0 comments

Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-05-19 | +13 | 0 comments

Leah Garcés on turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken industry
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-05-13 | +8 | 0 comments

Christian Tarsney on future bias and a possible solution to moral fanaticism
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-05-05 | +7 | 0 comments

Launching a new resource: 'Effective Altruism: An Introduction'
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-04-15 | +47 | 0 comments

Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be
by 80000_Hours @ 2021-01-18 | +14 | 0 comments

The emerging school of patient longtermism
by 80000_Hours @ 2020-08-07 | +64 | 0 comments

The flaws that make today's AI architecture unsafe and a new approach that could...
by 80000_Hours @ 2020-06-22 | +3 | 0 comments

What 80,000 Hours learned by interviewing people we respect 'anonymously'
by 80000_Hours @ 2020-06-18 | +55 | 0 comments

Policy and research ideas to reduce existential risk
by 80000_Hours @ 2020-04-27 | +3 | 0 comments

[Link] What's the best charity to donate to? Dec 2019 — 80,000 Hours
by 80000_Hours @ 2019-12-23 | +13 | 0 comments

80,000 Hours is compiling anonymous advice from people whose work we respect —...
by 80000_Hours @ 2019-11-27 | +32 | 0 comments

Advice on how to read our advice
by 80000_Hours @ 2019-11-15 | +36 | 0 comments

Philip Tetlock on why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how you...
by 80000_Hours @ 2019-06-28 | +6 | 0 comments

Recap - why do some organisations say their recent hires are worth so much?...
by 80000_Hours @ 2019-05-13 | +35 | 0 comments

Using your career to help solve the world's most pressing problems
by 80000_Hours @ 2019-05-01 | +10 | 0 comments

The case for building expertise to work on US AI policy, and how to do it
by 80000_Hours @ 2019-01-31 | +37 | 0 comments

Cross-post: Think twice before talking about ‘talent gaps’ – clarifying nine...
by 80000_Hours @ 2018-11-12 | +52 | 0 comments

Many EA orgs say they place a lot of financial value on their previous hire....
by 80000_Hours @ 2018-10-12 | +24 | 0 comments

Survey of EA org leaders about what skills and experience they most need, their...
by 80000_Hours @ 2018-10-09 | +14 | 0 comments

Paul Christiano on how OpenAI is developing real solutions to the 'AI alignment...
by 80000_Hours @ 2018-10-02 | +6 | 0 comments

List of 80,000 Hours content from the last 4 months, summary of what was most...
by 80000_Hours @ 2018-10-01 | +7 | 0 comments

These are the world’s highest impact career paths according to our research -...
by 80000_Hours @ 2018-09-30 | +10 | 0 comments

List of 80,000 Hours content from the last 2 months, summary of which were most...
by 80000_Hours @ 2018-06-04 | +8 | 0 comments

Compilation of 32 new(ish) 80,000 Hours research pieces for the effective...
by 80000_Hours @ 2018-04-06 | +5 | 0 comments

Interview with Prof Tetlock on epistemic modesty, predicting catastrophic risks,...
by 80000_Hours @ 2017-11-20 | +6 | 0 comments

Survey of leaders in the EA community on a range of important topics, like what...
by 80000_Hours @ 2017-11-03 | +9 | 0 comments

80,000 Hours' 20 most enduringly popular pieces of research
by 80000_Hours @ 2017-10-23 | +7 | 0 comments

Ten new 80,000 Hours articles made for the effective altruist community
by 80000_Hours @ 2017-09-07 | +20 | 0 comments

80,000 Hours articles aimed at the EA community
by 80000_Hours @ 2017-06-20 | +16 | 0 comments

Three ways anyone can make a difference, no matter their job
by 80000_Hours @ 2017-04-15 | +14 | 0 comments

Changes to how 80,000 Hours prioritises the world's problems
by 80000_Hours @ 2017-02-13 | +18 | 0 comments