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Resources on how to do good with your career — and anything else we here at 80,000 Hours feel like releasing.
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Hear This Idea is a podcast showcasing new thinking in philosophy, the social sciences, and effective altruism. Each episode has an accompanying write-up at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes.
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Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts and posts with 125 karma. If you'd like more episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (All audio)" podcast instead.
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Unusually in-depth conversations about the world's most pressing problems and what you can do to solve them. Subscribe by searching for '80000 Hours' wherever you get podcasts. Produced by Keiran Harris. Hosted by Rob Wiblin and Luisa Rodriguez.
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The Cryosphere podcast (formerly the Cryonics Underground Podcast) explores the fascinating and underappreciated world of Cryonics - the process of pausing your biological functions at the moment of legal death with the goal of reviving you in the future. Join us for in-depth discussions on the scientific, social, philosophical, technological, and political implications of this unique and extraordinary experiment. Featuring leaders in the Cryonics industry alongside futurists, philosophers, ...
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A collection of ten top episodes of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, specifically selected to help listeners get up to speed on effective altruism as quickly as possible.
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The Harvard Effective Altruism student podcast
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Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and many others about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean, and why they matter. Ideas from the past, questions about the present, shaping the future. Brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books. New episo ...
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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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Join us as we explore how to use our resources to do the most good. Learn more about effective giving, high impact charities, philanthropy, and effective altruism.
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Welcome to "The Lost Estate: Building Legacies Through Financial Literacy," a groundbreaking podcast series dedicated to empowering African American and Hispanic communities with the knowledge and tools necessary for effective estate planning and generational wealth creation. Hosted by Jermaine E. Whiteside, author, and visionary behind The Lost Estate Educational Series, this podcast deepens into the often-overlooked aspects of financial planning, offering actionable insights and expert adv ...
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Bennett and Cas discuss historical moments in the cryptocurrency and finance industries, focusing on frauds, hacks, exit scams, and other malfeasance.
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'Utopia' Podcast: People solving world problems and alleviating suffering for sentient beings. This is an effective altruism podcast.
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A compilation of ten key episodes on artificial intelligence and related topics from 80,000 Hours. Together they'll help you learn about how AI looks from a broadly longtermist, existential risk, or effective altruism flavoured point of view.
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How can we enable us to create social change and effective altruism while addressing the dichotomy of our modern life and values driven by markets.
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Inspiring engineers to learn and think more about how they can have a positive social impact with their careers. We discuss how engineering professionals can deploy their skills to maximise their impact and work to solve some of the world's most pressing problems.
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A show about things that tickle your brain.
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We all want to make a difference — but knowing exactly what we should do with our limited time, money and energy is an extremely hard question. Doing Good Better is a podcast about using reason and evidence to figure out how we can do the most good, using the ideas of effective altruism. We talk to researchers, development economists, philosophers, journalists, charity workers, entrepreneurs, and social scientists to try to figure out what works — and just as importantly, what doesn't. More ...
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Effective Altruism is a social movement dedicated to finding ways you can best help others, whether through your charitable donations, career choices, or volunteer projects. EA Talks features presentations and discussions that can help you find something you're excited about. Lately, we've been focusing a lot on new opportunities in pandemic prevention, charity entrepreneurship, and AI safety. But we also have talks on other important topics like animal welfare, global health, nuclear securi ...
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Animal advocacy on the airwaves, hosted by a team of local animal advocates.
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Winner of national Communicator and W3 Awards: the podcast for people who make progress. Your host: writer, consultant, and national media commentator Spencer Critchley.
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Visit Our Facebook Page Join The Livegan Podcast with hosts Kevin Lahey and Ben Le Roi, as they interview inspirational leaders in the animal rights community and help vegan activists become more effective. Kevin is an ex-undercover investigator with CARE and Mercy for Animals Ben is co-founder of Nation Rising
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Waking Up with Brooke Sprowl | Leaders in Spirituality, Psychology, Mental Health, & Social Change
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Psychotherapist, entrepreneur, and author Brooke Sprowl interviews the foremost experts on self-discovery, psychology, spirituality, creativity, peak performance, cognitive science, philosophy, effective altruism, and personal and collective transformation. Brooke draws from her rich, cross-disciplinary experience in self-transformation, business, and neuroscience as she engages in emergent conversations with some of the greatest minds of our time.
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Join Andy as he explores topics on personal improvement, mindset, and business life as a young entrepreneur. Fresh episodes every week! Subscribe to get notified of our updates! For sponsorships please email us at theflipsidepodcastcshow@gmail.com Welcome to The Flip Side!
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The podcast of VSA Utrecht about all things vegan. From vegan history to speciesism and more, we explore everything that it entails to be a "vegan" in our modern world.
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We’ve all experienced invalidation that makes us question ourselves and sometimes, even feel a little crazy. From relationships to healthcare, from workplaces to spiritual communities, from media influence to societal bias and more, No, Not Crazy will explore the messages we internalize, their effects on our lives, and the ways we can free ourselves from them. Sharing stories and speaking with experts, we’ll dig into the experiences that dismiss our truths and undermine our knowing. Join edu ...
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Welcome to the UnComplicated English podcast, where we learn English through interesting stories.
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I talk to the most interesting people about economic growth
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Conversations with Adam Kruger. The previous name of this podcast was 'Can I Ask You a Question?'
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Columnist and author Tim Dowling gets world-leading experts to help him understand complex, interesting and unique topics.
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Two friends and a blog.
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Thoughts from a couple of people that are constantly thinking about how to make things better. Check out our blog at http://justthinkinpodcast.blogspot.com.
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Hi-Phi Nation is philosophy in story-form, integrating narrative journalism with big ideas. We look at stories from everyday life, law, science, popular culture, and strange corners of human experiences that raise thought-provoking questions about things like justice, knowledge, the self, morality, and existence. We then seek answers with the help of academics and philosophers. The show is produced and hosted by Barry Lam of UC Riverside.
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Jack Lawrence is best known for his TikTok videos, whereby he explores themes of philosophy, science and anything else that takes his fancy. In this podcast he dives deeper into these concepts, interviewing scientists, philosophers, and frankly anyone he thinks is interesting or funny.
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Join Chris & Kayla on their journeys of humor, discovery, and the absurd as they try to answer the question... is it a cult, or just weird?
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Interviews with fascinating people on science, ethics, and politics.
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This is a show on the science of how people are different from one another, where these differences come from, how they develop, and why they matter. The podcast’s hosts are Lisanne de Moor, PhD, René Mõttus, PhD, and Rebekka Weidmann, PhD, three personality researchers. It is a collaboration of the European Journal of Personality and the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP), and sponsored by EAPP. www.personalitypsychologypodcast.com
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An interview podcast where I, Daniel Filan, interview guests about topics I'm interested in, with the aim of clarifying how the guest understands that topic.
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Two aspiring rationalists bring you mind-bending ideas from science, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and medicine. Whether you enjoy wide-ranging discussions or are looking to upgrade your reasoning and critical thinking skills, this podcast will satisfy your intellectual hunger and sharpen your skeptical eye.
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The show is an exploration of the characteristics that make up the human condition through the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, mythology, history, art, and science.
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An insightful look into the craziness of the world through the eyes and wisdom of a genius cynic. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/montgomery-ambrose/support
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Highlights: #204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism
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Election forecaster Nate Silver gives his takes on: how effective altruism could be better, the stark tradeoffs we faced with COVID, whether the 13 Keys to the White House is "junk science," how to tell whose election predictions are better, and if venture capitalists really take risks. This is a selection of highlights from episode #204 of The 80,…
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#204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism
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Rob Wiblin speaks with FiveThirtyEight election forecaster and author Nate Silver about his new book: On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything. Links to learn more, highlights, video, and full transcript. On the Edge explores a cultural grouping Nate dubs “the River” — made up of people who are analytical, competitive, quantitatively minded, risk…
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Michael Lewis on Sam Bankman-Fried and Effective Altruism
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David talks to author Michael Lewis about SBF and EA: about the man he got to know before, during and after his spectacular fall and about the philosophy with which he was associated. What did Sam Bankman-Fried believe was the purpose of making so much money? How did he manage to get so side-tracked from doing good? Why when it all went wrong did h…
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Bonus: Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests
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"It does open you up to a lot of beautiful vistas of human experience. And as somebody who is interested in the world, it was really undersold to me how interesting kids are, and how interesting being a parent is. And it’s worth paying attention to, not just because you’re supposed to, but because you learn just a tremendous amount about what it me…
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TLDR: The shortest version of this argument is very simple: your expectations for an organization should be higher where their budget and staff size are higher. In other words, we should have different expectations for a 20-person organization with a $1 million budget than a 2-person $100,000 budget organization. While this seems pretty clear in th…
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The Great Political Films: The Battle of Algiers
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For the last episode in this season of great political films David explores Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers (1966), which changed the face of political movie-making forever. Filmed to look like archive footage, featuring actual participants in the events it describes, and showing both sides of the vicious contest between insurgents and cou…
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Ernest Hemingway is famous for the terse economy of his writing. And in one of the most resonant examples of that quality, he captured the essence of catastrophic failure in just a few words, in his novel The Sun Also Rises. The alcoholic veteran Mike Campbell is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he says. “Gradually and then quickly.” As it i…
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TFS#204 - Ramy Naouss, Cancer Survivor Running 100km+ Barefoot (Guinness World Record Attempt)
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Ramy Naouss is a motivational figure who shares insights on self-improvement, personal growth, and holistic health. He is known for discussing topics like overcoming challenges, maintaining physical and mental well-being, barefoot running, and the pursuit of life's purpose. Ramy has written a book titled Let's Live, which explores finding meaning i…
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“Quantifying the Global Burden of Extreme Pain from Cluster Headaches” by Alfredo Parra 🔸
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Warning: This post discusses statistics about extreme pain that may be distressing. While cluster headaches are a neglected, high-impact issue, understanding their true burden requires appreciating the intensity of suffering involved. The pain often reaches levels far beyond typical human experience, making subjective accounts a valuable datapoint …
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The failure rate is not 0 The base rate of failure for startups is not 0: Of the 6000 companies Y Combinator has funded, only ~16 are public. This is the wrong reference class for FTX at a $32b valuation, but even amongst extremely valuable companies, failures are not uncommon: WeWork had a peak valuation of $47b Theranos had a peak valuation of $1…
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The Great Political Films: Dr Strangelove & Fail Safe w/ Jill Lepore
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This episode is about two great films on the same dark theme: David talks to American historian Jill Lepore about Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove and Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe, which appeared within a few months of each other in 1964. Both films explore what might happen if America’s nuclear defence system went rogue. One is grimly hilarious; the o…
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The Presidential Candidates’ Economic Policies
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Mark Zandi, Chief Economist at Moody’s Analytics, points out that the American economy is currently the envy of the world. The outcome of the Presidential election could change the course of the economy since the two candidates have put forward very different policies. One key difference is the size and scope of tariffs. High and broad-based tariff…
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Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P) is a volunteer-based non-profit organization focused on veganism and food justice. F.E.P's mission to to create a more just and sustainable world by recognising the power of one's food choices. They encourage healthy good choices that reflect a more compassionate sociert by spotlightin the abuse of animals on farms,…
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“Visualizing EA ideas” by Alex Savard 🔸
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Summary The written word dominates EA discourse but visuals have a unique power in communicating ideas that seems quite underleveraged in this community. As a designer and communicator in the space, I wanted to share some of the presentations and visualizations I’ve created over the years in hopes that they might be helpful to others. My goal isn't…
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#206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness
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"In that famous example of the dress, half of the people in the world saw [blue and black], half saw [white and gold]. It turns out there’s individual differences in how brains take into account ambient light. Colour is one example where it’s pretty clear that what we experience is a kind of inference: it’s the brain’s best guess about what’s going…
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The Great Political Films: The Leopard w/ Lucia Rubinelli
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For today’s great political film David discusses Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963) with the Italian historian of ideas Lucia Rubinelli. How did a communist aristocrat from Milan come to make a film about a Sicilian prince? How did Burt Lancaster get cast in the leading role? Is this a political film or a film against politics? And what is the r…
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“Reflections and lessons from Effective Ventures” by Zachary Robinson🔸
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I became the CEO of EV US in January 2023. I worked alongside the EV US and UK teams, former EV UK CEO Howie Lempel, and current EV UK CEO Rob Gledhill to recover and reform Effective Ventures and improve the robustness of the EA ecosystem in the aftermath of FTX's collapse. Amidst these efforts, I and others learned or fortified lessons that I thi…
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Following the Trail to Your Truth with Dr. Tom Garcia
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How we can quiet the ego’s loud, judgmental voice and listen to our gentler voice of intuition and spirit for guidance. Find out the three most important questions you can ask yourself and how to get to meaningful answers. Why we may be resistant to discovering our true selves and how to move past the fears into more authentic lives. Understand the…
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In this week's episode, explore the profound journey of building a legacy intertwined with faith and ethics. Drawing from the teachings of Deuteronomy and Timothy, we discuss the importance of imparting values to the next generation and the role of ethical stewardship in shaping a lasting legacy. Join us as we delve into research insights and bibli…
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TFS#203 - Jelle Veyt Climbing 7 Summits Using Just Human Power, Started with Only €3000
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Jelle Veyt is a Belgian adventurer known for "human-powered expeditions," using cycling, rowing, and hiking to reach peaks without motorized transport. He has completed five of the "Seven Summits," including Everest, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, and Denali, promoting sustainability and resilience.Connect with Jelle Veyt! instagram.com/jelleveyt …
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How much does a vote matter? (Article)
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If you care about social impact, is voting important? In this piece, Rob investigates the two key things that determine the impact of your vote: The chances of your vote changing an election’s outcome. How much better some candidates are for the world as a whole, compared to others. He then discusses a couple of the best arguments against voting in…
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Immigration policy has been called “the third rail” of American politics, with intense feelings on both sides of the issue. In this charged environment, it is important to know the facts about immigration, especially as they relate to economic outcomes. Consultants at Analysis Group, an economic consulting firm headquartered in Boston, published an…
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The Great Political Films: The Manchurian Candidate
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Today’s great political film is John Frankenheimer’s masterpiece of Cold War paranoia The Manchurian Candidate (1962), which came out the week of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It’s a 1960s movie about 1950s fears: brainwashing, the Korean War, McCarthyism, all shot through with Kennedy-era anxieties about sexual potency and psychoanalysis. Who’s a Sovi…
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On this show, we play the recording of a recent panel discussion, "One Year In: Reflections and the Ongoing Resistance" held on September 28, 2024 and hosted by Dr Leila Dehghan. In this conversation, the panel reflect on the televised genocide of the Palestinians, the silence within the vegan and animal rights movement, and discuss actionable step…
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Is Bitcoin good for the world? (feat. Andrew Bailey)
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Cas Piancey and Bennett Tomlin are joined by Andrew Bailey, author of Resistance Money, to discuss Tether on Tron and Bitcoin. This video was recorded on September 9th 2024. Resistance Money Patrick McKenzie and Tyler Cowen podcast Cas Piancey and PJ Vogt podcast Bennett's newsletter about Craig Wright Bennett's article about Fei Bennett's newslett…
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#80 – Dan Williams on How Persuasion Works
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Dan Williams is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex and an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at the University of Cambridge. You can find links and a transcript at www.hearthisidea.com/episodes/williams. We discuss: If reasoning is so useful, why are we so bad at it? Do some bad ideas re…
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The Great Political Films: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
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In today’s episode David discusses Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), a great patriotic anti-war film made in the depths of WWII. Why did Churchill want the film’s production stopped and was he right to suspect it was about him? What does the film say about the politics of nostalgia and the illusions…
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#205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do
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"You have a tank split in two parts: if the fish gets in the compartment with a red circle, it will receive food, and food will be delivered in the other tank as well. If the fish takes the blue triangle, this fish will receive food, but nothing will be delivered in the other tank. So we have a prosocial choice and antisocial choice. When there is …
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We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to improve the lives of chickens raised for food in the UK. Tomorrow, The Humane League UK (THL UK) will be heading to the High Court to challenge the legality of fast-growing breeds of chicken- Frankenchickens. At stake are the lives of one billion animals. Our small team will be demonstrating outside the…
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Dan Held - Rethinking the Vision of Cryonics
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In this episode of The Cryosphere podcast, hosts Max Marty and Rebecca Ziegler welcome Dan Held—a serial crypto entrepreneur and Bitcoin educator with over 850,000 followers on social media. As a General Partner at Asymmetric and former Head of Marketing at Kraken, Dan brings a wealth of experience in marketing disruptive technologies. He recently …
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TFS#202 - Angus Muffet @Shopback: $3B+ in sales, $200M in Cashback for 2.5M Australian Users
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Angus Muffet is the General Manager at ShopBack Australia & New Zealand, a leading e-commerce platform specializing in cashback and rewards. Under his leadership, ShopBack has grown significantly, offering users the ability to earn cashback on purchases from a wide range of retailers. Muffet has focused on making ShopBack a daily habit for users, l…
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Highlights: Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
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This is a selection of highlights from our April 2023 episode with host Luisa Rodriguez and producer Keiran Harris on 80k After Hours. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode: Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the cons…
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Turning a Corner on the Opioid Crisis?
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Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. fell by 12.7% between May 2023 and 2024. As the Office of National Drug Control Policy notes, this marks the largest recorded reduction in overdose deaths. It also marks six consecutive months of reported decreases. What has driven the recent declines? Which policies and interventions have proven particularly effect…
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The Great Political Films: Citizen Kane
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Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) is many people’s favourite film of all time, including Donald Trump’s. Why does Trump love it so? What does he get right and what does he get wrong about the trajectory of the life of Charles Foster Kane? What does the film reveal about the relationship between celebrity, influence and political power? And why is …
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We need to talk about an issue that doesn't get as much discussion as it needs. It's a particularly important topic right now with the state of the world and the exhaustion some activists are feeling. Today we are talking about activist burnout, what it means, how we get to this point and what both the individual activist and the justice movements …
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Highlights: #203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #203 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast. These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode: Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex c…
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“Explaining the discrepancies in cost effectiveness ratings: A replication and breakdown of RP’s animal welfare cost effectiveness calculations” by titotal
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I'd like to thank Derek Shiller from Rethink priorities for extensive discussions and looking over this post. Introduction I've been following the "animal welfare" debate this week on the EA forum, and noticed that a key crux for a lot of people was that calculations showed that animal welfare campaigns (specifically the "caged chicken corporate ca…
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“RETROSPECTIVE ON EA NIGERIA SUMMIT: OUR SUCCESSES AND LEARNINGS” by EA Nigeria, Daniel Elabi, Adebayo Mubarak, Zakariyau Yusuf
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EA Nigeria Summit was the first EA-related conference in Nigeria, and it took place from September 6th to 7th, 2024. The event saw a higher level of interest than we (the organisers) expected. We received applications from individuals across Nigeria and the international community, especially Africans. We accepted 170 applicants for the summit, and…
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The Great Political Films: Mr Smith Goes to Washington
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Today’s great political film is Frank Capra’s Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), a much-loved tale of the little guy taking on the corrupt establishment. But there’s far more to it than that, including an origin story that suggests Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) might not be what he seems. From filibusters to fascism, from the New Deal to America…
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In this insightful episode, our special guests dive into the significance of generational trusts. They explore the legal, psychological, and spiritual aspects of creating and maintaining these powerful tools for legacy building. Learn how trusts can protect family assets and ensure they benefit future generations while aligning with biblical princi…
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Off the Clock #6: Starting Small with Conor Barnes
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Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/yncw2T77OAc Matt, Bella, and Huon sit down with Conor Barnes to discuss unlikely journeys, EA criticism, discipline, timeless decision theory, and how to do the most good with a degree in classics. Check out: Conor’s 100 Tips for a Better Life: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7hFeMWC6Y5eaSixbD/100-tip…
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Managing Stress and Embodying Resilience with Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe
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Why sometimes “How can I not make this worse?” is the best question to ask. Understand that stress should not be viewed as a failure, but as valuable information from our bodies. How we can build and strengthen resilience, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges. Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is a bestselling author, an award-winning scho…
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255. Rationality and Freedom
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Amartya Sen’s “Rationality and Freedom” clarifies how the two concepts are intimately linked, how we can’t understand one without the other, & why voting is wholly insufficient to create a rational society. Video: http://youtu.be/YMkzCMkyjtE Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2024/10/15/255.-Rationality-and-Freedom.html…
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TFS#201 - Eugenia Bone Unlocking the Hidden Power of Mushrooms: Psychedelics, Foraging, & Cooking Tips
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Eugenia Bone is an expert in the world of nature and food, known not only for her writing but also for her deep passion for mushrooms, both culinary and psychedelic. She has a remarkable way of blending science and food culture into her work, which has earned her a dedicated following. As the author of nine books, she dives into the mysteries of fu…
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Foreword Sadly, it looks like the debate week will end without many of the stronger[1] arguments for Global Health being raised, at least at the post level. I don't have time to write them all up, and in many cases they would be better written by someone with more expertise, but one issue is firmly in my comfort zone: the maths! The point I raise h…
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