01:50:54

Benjamin Todd on the history of 80,000 Hours (2023)

02:58:14

What India did to stop COVID-19 and how well it worked | Shruti Rajagopalan (2020)

02:24:20

Why pleasure & pain are the only things that intrinsically matter | Sharon Hewitt Rawlette (2022)

03:09:47

The many-worlds theory of quantum mechanics & its implications | David Wallace (2021)

03:24:50

The weirdly obvious solution to housing and our worst policy failings | Sam Bowman

01:49:36

Is it more effective help strangers or people you know? | Russ Roberts (2020)

01:40:46

8 years as an ambassador fighting WMD terrorism | Bonnie Jenkins (2019)

03:19:36

The state of the art in malaria control and elimination | Dr James Tibenderana (2022)

03:56:44

Why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all | Tom Moynihan (2021)

29:56

Highlights: Cameron Meyer Shorb on the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals

01:42:55

Working with governments to rapidly deliver masks to millions of people | Maha Rehman (2021)

02:13:42

How to avoid catastrophic nuclear blunders | Joan Rohlfing (2022)

02:47:06

The case that war isn't in decline | Bear Braumoeller (2022)

03:38:26

Puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value | Alan Hájek (2022)

29:15

Highlights: Elizabeth Cox on how TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world

02:20:58

The SENTINEL system for detecting & stopping pandemics | Dr Pardis Sabeti (2021)

01:00:54

Marcus Davis on founding and leading Rethink Priorities

22:31

Highlights: Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity & more founders should too

03:45:45

Why global catastrophes probably won't kill us all | Luisa Rodriguez (2021)

03:21:03

Dismantling the myth that we can't do anything to help wild animals | Cameron Meyer Shorb

01:23:47

OpenAI's unparalleled gambit to ditch its nonprofit | UCLA legal expert Rose Chan Loui

02:46:06

Building aptitudes & kicking ass | Holden Karnofsky (2021)

02:31:35

Trying to end poverty through well-founded charter cities | Mark Lutter & Tamara Winter (2019)

02:50:40

How to have a big impact in government (based on 16 years in the White House) | Tom Kalil (2019)

04:42:30

The nature and ethics of consciousness | David Chalmers (2019)

02:22:03

How TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world | Elizabeth Cox

01:30:24

Making AI systems robust & reliable at DeepMind | Pushmeet Kohli (2019)

02:33:18

Big wins against factory farming & how they happened | Lewis Bollard (2021)

02:46:51

The 5 reasons wars happen | Chris Blattman (2022)

19:37

Highlights: The predictive brain & how to study consciousness | Anil Seth

02:58:39

Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, & why more founders should follow her lead

01:28:08

Reducing the cruelty of the US criminal legal system | James Forman Jr. (2020)

30:55

Highlights: The most insane things fish can do | Sébastien Moro

02:54:37

What we owe the future | Will MacAskill (2022)

03:04:18

Intepreting public opinion polls & avoiding the 'pundit’s fallacy' | Matthew Yglesias (2022)

02:35:22

'Patient' philanthropy & waiting to do good with your donations | Phil Trammell (2020)

01:35:39

Parenting insights from Rob and 8 past guests (bonus episode)

02:37:17

COVID-19 and reducing global catastrophic biological risks | Dr Greg Lewis (2020)

01:25:57

Our very long-term future & other topics most politicians won’t touch | Andrew Yang (2021)

03:48:40

The common-sense case for working on existential risks | Carl Shulman (2021)

02:33:50

The predictive brain & the quest to understand consciousness | Anil Seth

02:26:54

The 12 best ways to stop the next pandemic | Dr Cassidy Nelson (2020)

32:32

How much does a vote matter? | Rob Wiblin

02:54:04

Can policy keep up with AI advances? | OpenAI's Amanda Askell, Miles Brundage, & Jack Clark (2019)

02:36:10

How to ensure the US remains a democratic country | Mike Berkowitz (2021)

03:08:13

Using paper mills and seaweed to feed everyone in a catastrophe | David Denkenberger (2021)

02:33

Nate Silver: Betting markets and superforecasters probably now overrated

25:25

Highlights: Accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us | Ajeya Cotra (2023)

04:42

Nate Silver: The 'Keys to the White House' is junk science and can't tell you who'll win

03:11:05

The most INSANE things fish can do | Sébastien Moro

13:15

Highlights: Free will & the consequences of never experiencing guilt or shame | Luisa & Keiran

02:24:54

Strong longtermism, Pascal's mugging, and whether existing is good for us | Hilary Greaves (2020)

02:05:44

Using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India | Varsha Venugopal (2021)

33:46

Highlights: Interfering with wild nature & the origins of complex civilisation | Peter Godfrey-Smith

01:58:56

Nate Silver on his theory of SBF and top criticisms of effective altruism

01:05:43

Off the Clock #6: Starting Small with Conor Barnes

02:00:04

Disinformation & synthetic media on the rise | Nina Schick (2021)

30:01

Highlights: How quickly AI could transform the world | Tom Davidson (2023)

01:04:55

Michelle and Habiba on what they’d tell their younger selves, and the impact of the 1-1 team (2022)

14:55

Highlights: Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh — and how to save their lives