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#172 – Why you should stop read­ing the news (Bryan Ca­plan on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

• 80000_Hours 21 Nov 2023 16:14 UTC

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80000_Hours’s Quick takes

#171 – How top labs have jeop­ar­dised pub­lic health with re­peated biosafety failures (Ali­son Young on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

#170 – How air pol­lu­tion is re­spon­si­ble for ~12% of global deaths — and how to get that num­ber down (San­tosh Har­ish on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

#169 – On whether cash trans­fers cause eco­nomic growth, and keep­ing theft to ac­cept­able lev­els (Paul Nie­haus on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

#168 – Whether deep his­tory says we’re head­ing for an in­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion (Ian Mor­ris on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

#167 - The re­search gaps hold­ing back al­ter­na­tive pro­teins from mass adop­tion (Seren Kell on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

What he’s learned as an AI policy in­sider (Tan­tum Col­lins on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

War in space, whether civ­i­liza­tions age, and the best things pos­si­ble in our uni­verse (An­ders Sand­berg on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

Cults that want to kill ev­ery­one, stealth vs wild­fire pan­demics, and how he felt in­vent­ing gene drives (Kevin Esvelt on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

How to pur­sue a ca­reer in AI gov­er­nance and coordination

The per­ils of max­imis­ing the good that you do (Toby Ord on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

Avoid­ing 10 mis­takes peo­ple make when pur­su­ing a high-im­pact ca­reer (Alex Lawsen on the 80k After Hours Pod­cast)

Get­ting Wash­ing­ton and Sili­con Valley to tame AI (Mustafa Suley­man on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

An­nounc­ing the new 80,000 Hours Ca­reer Guide, by Ben­jamin Todd

On whether AI will soon cause job loss, lower in­comes, and higher in­equal­ity — or the op­po­site (Michael Webb on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

Why it makes sense to be op­ti­mistic about the en­vi­ron­ment (Han­nah Ritchie on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

OpenAI’s mas­sive push to make su­per­in­tel­li­gence safe in 4 years or less (Jan Leike on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)