80k After Hours

This is a selection of highlights from episode #155 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:

Lennart Heim on the compute governance era and what has to come after

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour and Milo McGuire

This is a selection of highlights from episode #154 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:

Rohin Shah on DeepMind and trying to fairly hear out both AI doomers and doubters

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour and Milo McGuire

In this episode of 80k After Hours,  Luisa Rodriguez and Alex Lawsen discuss common mistakes people make when trying to do good with their careers, and advice on how to avoid them.

Links to learn more, highlights and full transcript.

They cover:

• Taking 80,000 Hours’ rankings too seriously
• Not trying hard enough to fail
• Feeling like you need to optimise for having the most impact *now*
• Feeling like you need to work directly on AI immediately
• Not taking a role because you think you’ll be replaceable
• Constantly considering other career options
• Overthinking or over-optimising career choices
• Being unwilling to think things through for yourself
• Ignoring conventional career wisdom
• Doing community work even if you’re not suited to it

Who this episode is for:

• People who want to pursue a high-impact career
• People wondering how much AI progress should change their plans
• People who take 80,000 Hours’ career advice seriously

Who this episode isn’t for:

• People not taking 80k's career advice seriously enough
• People who've never made any career mistakes
• People who don't want to hear Alex say "I said a bunch of stuff, maybe some of it's true" every time he's on the podcast

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Producer and editor: Keiran Harris
Audio Engineering Lead: Ben Cordell
Technical editing: Milo McGuire and Dominic Armstrong
Additional content editing: Luisa Rodriguez and Katy Moore
Transcriptions: Katy Moore

This is a selection of highlights from episode #153 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:

Elie Hassenfeld on two big picture critiques of GiveWell’s approach, and six lessons from their recent work

And if you're finding these highlights episodes valuable, please let us know by emailing [email protected].

Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: type ‘80,000 Hours’ into your podcasting app. Or read the transcript.

Highlights put together by Simon Monsour and Milo McGuire

This is a selection of highlights from episode #152 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:

Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion

And if you're finding these highlights episodes valuable, please let us know by emailing [email protected].

Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: type ‘80,000 Hours’ into your podcasting app. Or read the transcript.

Highlights put together by Simon Monsour and Milo McGuire

This is a selection of highlights from episode #151 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:

Ajeya Cotra on accidentally teaching AI models to deceive us

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour and Milo McGuire

This is a selection of highlights from episode #150 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:

Tom Davidson on how quickly AI could transform the world

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Highlights put together by Milo McGuire and Simon Monsour

In this episode of 80k After Hours,  Luisa Rodriguez and Hannah Boettcher discuss various approaches to therapy, and how to use them in practice — focusing specifically on people trying to have a big impact.

Links to learn more, highlights and full transcript.

They cover:

• The effectiveness of therapy, and tips for finding a therapist
• Moral demandingness
• Internal family systems-style therapy
• Motivation and burnout
• Exposure therapy
• Grappling with world problems and x-risk
• Perfectionism and imposter syndrome
• And the risk of over-intellectualising

Who this episode is for:

• High-impact focused people who struggle with moral demandingness, perfectionism, or imposter syndrome
• People who feel anxious thinking about the end of the world
• 80,000 Hours Podcast hosts with the initials LR

Who this episode isn’t for:

• People who aren’t focused on having a big impact
• People who don’t struggle with any mental health issues
• Founders of Scientology with the initials LRH

Get this episode by subscribing to our more experimental podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: type 80k After Hours into your podcasting app.

Producer: Keiran Harris
Audio Engineering Lead: Ben Cordell
Technical editing: Dominic Armstrong
Content editing: Katy Moore, Luisa Rodriguez, and Keiran Harris
Transcriptions: Katy Moore

This is a selection of highlights from episode #149 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:

Tim LeBon on how altruistic perfectionism is self-defeating

And if you're finding these highlights episodes valuable, please let us know by emailing [email protected].

Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: type ‘80,000 Hours’ into your podcasting app. Or read the transcript.

Highlights put together by Simon Monsour

In this episode of 80k After Hours, Perrin Walker reads Benjamin Todd and Roman Duda's career review on operations management.

Here’s the original piece if you’d like to learn more.

You might also want to check out our 80,000 Hours Podcast episodes with Tara Mac Aulay and Tanya Singh.

Get this episode by subscribing to our more experimental podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: type 80k After Hours into your podcasting app.

Editing and narration: Perrin Walker
Audio proofing: Katy Moore