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New ca­reer re­view: Nu­clear weapons safety and security

#187 – How re­search­ing his book turned him from a space op­ti­mist into a “space bas­tard” (Zach Wein­er­smith on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

#186 – Why ba­bies are born small in Ut­tar Pradesh, and how to save their lives (Dean Spears on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

#185 – The 7 most promis­ing ways to end fac­tory farm­ing, and whether AI is go­ing to be good or bad for an­i­mals (Lewis Bol­lard on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

• 80000_Hours 26 Apr 2024 8:53 UTC

  7 points

  1 ∶ 1

  on: On failing to get EA jobs: My ex­pe­rience and recom­men­da­tions to EA orgs

  I wanted to quickly say thank you for your suggestion that orgs increase information sharing transparency. I haven’t seen this discussed elsewhere, and I think it’s a good idea! It’s now on our list of things to consider for future hiring rounds at 80k.

  -- Sash, Head of Recruiting at 80k

#184 – Sleep­ing on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI up­dates since ChatGPT (Zvi Mow­show­itz on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

The truth about effec­tive al­tru­ism (Robert Wright & Rob Wiblin on the 80k After Hours Pod­cast)

Why we’re en­ter­ing a new nu­clear age — and how to re­duce the risks (Chris­tian Ruhl on the 80k After Hours Pod­cast)

• 80000_Hours 27 Mar 2024 17:20 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Charles He’s comment on: Ben_West’s Shortform

  We also offer audio version of those highlights for all episodes on the ’80k After Hours’ feed: https://​​80000hours.org/​​after-hours-podcast/​​

• 80000_Hours 26 Mar 2024 10:59 UTC

  3 points

  0 ∶ 0

  on: 80,000 Hours spin out an­nounce­ment and fundraising

  Here’s a quick update to say that we’ve closed this fundraising round.

  If you’re still interested in donating to 80,000 Hours, we always welcome donations through our Giving What We Can donation page and are excited to hear from potential donors at jess.smith@80000hours.org.

  We have also updated the donate page of our site — updating the metrics to cover the whole of 2023 and making an adjustment to account for cookie banner changes in 2023 which affects our growth over time metrics. Going forward, our page is a better source of up-to-date information than this forum post.

Videos on the world’s most press­ing prob­lems, by 80,000 Hours

#183 – Cau­sa­tion with­out cor­re­la­tion, money and hap­piness, light­gassing, hype vs value, and more (Spencer Green­berg on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

#182 – Com­par­ing the welfare of hu­mans, chick­ens, pigs, oc­to­puses, bees, and more (Bob Fischer on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

#181 – The sci­ence that could keep us healthy in our 80s and be­yond (Laura Dem­ing on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

Which YouTube chan­nels do you watch? (A <2-min re­quest from 80,000 Hours)

Open roles at 80,000 Hours: Oper­a­tions team

What are the biggest mis­con­cep­tions about biose­cu­rity and pan­demic risk?

#180 – Why gullibil­ity and mis­in­for­ma­tion are over­rated (Hugo Mercier on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

#179 – Why evolu­tion left us so vuln­er­a­ble to de­pres­sion and anx­iety (Randy Nesser on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80,000 Hours’ new se­ries on build­ing skills