80k After Hours

Highlights: #218 – Hugh White on why Trump is abandoning US hegemony – and that’s probably good

Highlights: #217 – Beth Barnes on the most important graph in AI right now — and the 7-month rule that governs its progress

Highlights: #216 – Ian Dunt on why governments in Britain and elsewhere can’t get anything done – and how to fix it

Highlights: #215 – Tom Davidson on how AI-enabled coups could allow a tiny group to seize power

Highlights: #214 – Buck Shlegeris on controlling AI that wants to take over – so we can use it anyway

Off the Clock #8: Leaving Las London with Matt Reardon

Highlights: #213 – Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” — and how we’re completely unprepared

Highlights: #212 – Allan Dafoe on why technology is unstoppable & how to shape AI development anyway

Off the Clock #7: Getting on the Crazy Train with Chi Nguyen

Highlights: #211 – Sam Bowman on why housing still isn’t fixed and what would actually work

Highlights: #210 – Cameron Meyer Shorb on dismantling the myth that we can’t do anything to help wild animals

Highlights: #209 – Rose Chan Loui on OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit

Highlights: #208 – Elizabeth Cox on the case that TV shows, movies, and novels can improve the world

Highlights: #207 – Sarah Eustis-Guthrie on why she shut down her charity, and why more founders should follow her lead

Highlights: #206 – Anil Seth on the predictive brain and how to study consciousness

Highlights: #205 – Sébastien Moro on the most insane things fish can do

Highlights: #204 – Nate Silver on making sense of SBF, and his biggest critiques of effective altruism

Highlights: Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame

Highlights: #203 – Peter Godfrey-Smith on interfering with wild nature, accepting death, and the origin of complex civilisation

Off the Clock #6: Starting Small with Conor Barnes

Highlights: #202 – Venki Ramakrishnan on the cutting edge of anti-ageing science

Highlights: #201 – Ken Goldberg on why your robot butler isn’t here yet

Highlights: #200 – Ezra Karger on what superforecasters and experts think about existential risks

Highlights: #199 – Nathan Calvin on California’s AI bill SB 1047 and its potential to shape US AI policy

Highlights: #198 – Meghan Barrett on challenging our assumptions about insects

Highlights: #197 – Nick Joseph on whether Anthropic’s AI safety policy is up to the task

Highlights: #196 – Jonathan Birch on the edge cases of sentience and why they matter

Highlights: #195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them

Highlights: #194 – Vitalik Buterin on defensive acceleration and how to regulate AI when you fear government

Highlights: #193 – Sihao Huang on the risk that US–China AI competition leads to war

Highlights: #192 – Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US

Off the Clock #5: Leaving 80k with Maria Gutierrez Rojas

Highlights: #191 (Part 2) – Carl Shulman on government and society after AGI

Highlights: #191 (Part 1) – Carl Shulman on the economy and national security after AGI

Highlights: #190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious

Highlights: #189 – Rachel Glennerster on how “market shaping” could help solve climate change, pandemics, and other global problems

Highlights: #188 – Matt Clancy on whether science is good

Off the Clock #4 (fka Actually After Hours): One Boxing with Julian Hazell

Highlights: #187 – Zach Weinersmith on how researching his book turned him from a space optimist into a “space bastard”

Highlights: #186 – Dean Spears on why babies are born small in Uttar Pradesh, and how to save their lives

Highlights: #185 – Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals

Highlights: #184 – Zvi Mowshowitz on sleeping on sleeper agents, and the biggest AI updates since ChatGPT

Actually After Hours #3: Finding the Tail with Dwarkesh Patel

Robert Wright & Rob Wiblin on the truth about effective altruism

Highlights: #183 – Spencer Greenberg on causation without correlation, money and happiness, lightgassing, hype vs value, and more

Highlights: #182 – Bob Fischer on comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more

Christian Ruhl on why we're entering a new nuclear age — and how to reduce the risks

Highlights: #181 – Laura Deming on the science that could keep us healthy in our 80s and beyond

Actually After Hours #2: Coming to America with Joel Becker

Highlights: #180 – Hugo Mercier on why gullibility and misinformation are overrated