Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

12 Episodes

1. Effective altruism in a nutshell

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2. One: Holden Karnofsky on times philanthropy transformed the world & Open Phil's plan to do the same

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3. Two: Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it

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4. Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions

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5. Five: Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster

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6. Five: Dr Paul Christiano on how OpenAI is developing real solutions to the 'AI alignment problem', and his vision of how humanity will progressively hand over decision-making to AI systems

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7. Seven: Prof Tetlock on why accurate forecasting matters for everything, and how you can do it better

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8. Eight: Prof Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions

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9. Nine: Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours

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10. Nine: Dr David Denkenberger on how to feed all 8 billion people through an asteroid/nuclear winter

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11. Ten: Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it

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12. What's next

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