Classic Episodes
From 80,000 Hours Podcast
Classic episode re-releases.
Episodes
- #179 Classic episode – Randy Nesse on why evolution left us so vulnerable to depression and anxiety 2026-02-03
- #145 Classic episode – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasn't inevitable 2026-01-20
- #144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena 2026-01-09
- #142 Classic episode – John McWhorter on why the optimal number of languages might be one, and other provocative claims about language 2026-01-06
- #139 Classic episode – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value 2025-02-25
- #143 Classic episode – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons 2025-02-19
- #124 Classic episode – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions 2025-02-07
- #132 Classic episode – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems 2025-01-31
- #138 Classic episode – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter 2025-01-22
- #134 Classic episode – Ian Morris on what big-picture history teaches us 2025-01-15
- #140 Classic episode – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn’t in decline 2025-01-08
- #90 Classic episode – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be 2024-01-12
- #112 Classic episode – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications 2024-01-08
- #111 Classic episode – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms 2024-01-04
- #100 Classic episode – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety, and imposter syndrome 2023-12-27
- #79 Classic episode - A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles 2023-01-16
- #81 Classic episode - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments 2023-01-09
- #83 Classic episode - Jennifer Doleac on preventing crime without police and prisons 2023-01-04
- #43 Classic episode - Daniel Ellsberg on the institutional insanity that maintains nuclear doomsday machines 2022-01-18
- #35 Classic episode - Tara Mac Aulay on the audacity to fix the world without asking permission 2022-01-10
- #67 Classic episode – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness 2022-01-03
- #59 Classic episode - Cass Sunstein on how change happens, and why it's so often abrupt & unpredictable 2021-12-27