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- Anders Sandberg
- #165 – Anders Sandberg on war in space, whether civilisations age, and the best things possible in our universe
- #33 – Oxford’s Anders Sandberg on solar flares, the annual risk of nuclear war, and what if dictators could live forever?
- #29 – Where are the aliens? Anders Sandberg on three new resolutions to the Fermi Paradox and how we could easily colonise the whole universe
- Andreas Mogensen
- Andrew Yang
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- Arden Koehler
- Athena Aktipis
- Audrey Tang
- Bear Braumoeller
- Ben Garfinkel
- Benjamin Todd
- Benjamin Todd on what the effective altruism community most needs (& how to analyse replaceability)
- Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it
- Benjamin Todd on varieties of longtermism and things 80,000 Hours might be getting wrong
- #71 – Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours
- Beth Cameron
- Bob Fischer
- Bonnie Jenkins
- Brian Christian
- Bruce Friedrich
- Bruce Schneier
- Bryan Caplan
- Cal Newport
- Carl Shulman
- Cass Sunstein
- Cassidy Nelson
- Catherine Olsson
- Chris Blattman
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- Christian Tarsney
- Christine Peterson
- Christopher Brown
- Claire Walsh
- Daniel Ellsberg
- Daniel Ziegler
- Danny Hernandez
- Dario Amodei
- David Chalmers
- David Denkenberger
- David Roodman
- David Spiegelhalter
- David Wallace
- Dean Spears
- Dr James Tibenderana
- Dr Pardis Sabeti
- Dr Rachel Glennerster
- Elie Hassenfeld
- Emily Oster
- Eva Vivalt
- Ezra Klein
- Glen Weyl
- Greg Lewis
- Habiba Islam
- Hannah Ritchie
- Helen Toner
- Hilary Greaves
- Holden Karnofsky
- #158 – Holden Karnofsky on how AIs might take over even if they’re no smarter than humans, and his four-part playbook for AI risk
- #110 – Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
- #109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
- #21 – The world’s most intellectual foundation is hiring. Holden Karnofsky, founder of GiveWell, on how philanthropy can have maximum impact by taking big risks.
- Howie
- Howie Lempel
- Emergency episode: Rob & Howie on the menace of COVID-19, and what both governments & individuals might be able to do to help
- Bonus episode: What we do and don’t know about the 2019-nCoV coronavirus
- #4 – Howie Lempel on why we aren’t worried enough about the next pandemic — and specifically what we can do to stop it.
- Hugo Mercier
- Ian Morris
- Jack Clark
- Jaime Yassif
- James Forman Jr
- James Snowden
- Jan Leike
- Jeff Sebo
- Jeffrey Ding
- Jeffrey Lewis
- Jennifer Doleac
- Joan Rohlfing
- Joe Carlsmith
- Johannes Ackva
- John McWhorter
- Jose Valle
- Julia Galef
- Karen Levy
- Katja Grace
- Kelly Wanser
- Kelsey Piper
- Kevin Esvelt
- Laura Deming
- Leah Garcés
- Leah Utyasheva
- Lennart Heim
- Lewis Bollard
- Lewis Dartnell
- Lucia Coulter
- Luisa Rodriguez
- Maha Rehman
- Marc Lipsitch
- Marie Gibbons
- Mark Lutter
- Mark Lynas
- Markus Anderljung
- Martin Gurri
- Matthew Yglesias
- Max Roser
- Max Tegmark
- Michael Webb
- Michelle Hutchinson
- #122 – Michelle Hutchinson & Habiba Islam on balancing competing priorities and other themes from our 1-on-1 careers advising
- #75 – Michelle Hutchinson on what people most often ask 80,000 Hours
- #16 – Michelle Hutchinson hopes to shape the world by shaping the ideas of intellectuals. Will global priorities research succeed?
- Mike Berkowitz
- Miles Brundage
- Mushtaq Khan
- Mustafa Suleyman
- Nathan Labenz
- Nick Beckstead
- Nina Schick
- Nita Farahany
- Nova DasSarma
- Ofir Reich
- Owen Cotton-Barratt
- Paul Christiano
- #62 – Paul Christiano on whether we should leave a helpful message for future civilisations — just in case humanity dies out
- #44 – Paul Christiano on how OpenAI is developing real solutions to the ‘AI alignment problem’, and his vision of how humanity will progressively hand over decision-making to AI systems
- Paul Niehaus
- Persis Eskander
- Peter Singer
- Phil Trammel
- Philip Tetlock
- Pushmeet Kohli
- Randy Nesse
- Richard Ngo
- Rob Wiblin
- Robert Long
- Robert Wright
- Robin Hanson
- Rohin Shah
- Russ Roberts
- Sahil Shah
- Sam Bankman-Fried
- Samantha Pitts-Kiefer
- Samuel Charap
- Santosh Harish
- Seren Kell
- Sharon Hewitt Rawlette
- Sharon Nuñez
- Shruti Rajagopalan
- Spencer Greenberg
- #183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more
- #147 – Spencer Greenberg on stopping valueless papers from getting into top journals
- #39 – How much should you change your beliefs based on new evidence? Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions
- #11 – Spencer Greenberg on speeding up social science 10-fold & why plenty of startups cause harm
- Stefan Schubert
- Stuart Russell
- Tamara Winter
- Tantum Collins
- Tanya Singh
- Tara Kirk Sell
- Tara Mac Aulay
- Tim LeBon
- Toby Ord
- Tom Davidson
- Tom Inglesby
- Tom Kalil
- Tom Moynihan
- Tristan Harris
- Tyler Cowen
- Varsha Venugopal
- Vitalik Buterin
- Will MacAskill
- #136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future
- #130 – Will MacAskill on balancing frugality with ambition, whether you need longtermism, and mental health under pressure
- #68 – Will MacAskill on the moral case against ever leaving the house, whether now is the hinge of history, and the culture of effective altruism
- #17 – Will MacAskill fears our descendants will probably see us as moral monsters. What should we do about that?
- Yew-Kwang Ng
- Zach Weinersmith
- Zvi Mowshowitz
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