Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)
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Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)
A collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, designed to bring you up to speed on ten pressing issues the effective altruism community is working to solve.
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Effective altruism in a nutshell
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems is a collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, designed to bring you up to speed on ten pres...
One: Toby Ord on existential risks
In 2020, Oxford academic and 80,000 Hours trustee Dr Toby Ord released his book The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. It's about...
Two: Rachel Glennerster on global poverty
If I told you it’s possible to deliver an extra year of ideal primary-level education for 30 cents, would you believe me? Hopefully not – the claim is...
Three: Andy Weber on pandemics and nuclear wars
COVID-19 has provided a vivid reminder of the damage biological threats can do. But the threat doesn’t come from natural sources alone. Weaponized con...
Four: Brian Christian on artificial intelligence
Brian Christian is a bestselling author with a particular knack for accurately communicating difficult or technical ideas from both mathematics and co...
Five: Lewis Bollard on factory farming
Every year tens of billions of animals are raised in terrible conditions in factory farms before being killed for human consumption. Despite the enorm...
Six: Jennifer Doleac on criminal justice reform
The killing of George Floyd has prompted a great deal of debate over whether the US should shrink its police departments. The research literature sugg...
Seven: Ezra Klein on journalism
How many words in U.S. newspapers have been spilled on tax policy in the past five years? And how many words on CRISPR? Or meat alternatives? Or how A...
Eight: Mark Lynas on climate change
A golf-ball sized lump of uranium can deliver more than enough power to cover all your lifetime energy use. To get the same energy from coal, you’d ne...
Nine: Dave Denkenberger on feeding the world through catastrophes
If a nuclear winter or asteroid impact blocked the sun for years, our inability to grow food would result in billions dying of starvation, right? Acco...
Ten: Persis Eskander on wild animal suffering
Most animals are hunted by predators, and constantly have to remain vigilant lest they be killed, and perhaps experience the terror of being eaten ali...
What's next
Now you've finished Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems, here's what we suggest you do next.
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