Anonymous career advice from people whose work we respect. | Continue reading
Anonymous career advice from people whose work we respect. | Continue reading
An in-depth answer to 'how many lives do doctors save', and why becoming a doctor doesn't make as much difference as you might think. | Continue reading
Consulting is good career capital, but if you have a consulting offer you can likely find an even better option. | Continue reading
80,000 Hours' key ideas for those who want a high-impact career. | Continue reading
Computer security expert Bruce Schneier on US vulnerability to electronic voting, and maintaining surveillance without tyranny. | Continue reading
Computer security expert Bruce Schneier on US vulnerability to electronic voting, and maintaining surveillance without tyranny. | Continue reading
Anonymous career advice from people whose work we respect. | Continue reading
Anonymous career advice from people whose work we respect. | Continue reading
Most people think we should have some concern for future generations, but this obvious sounding idea leads to a surprising conclusion. | Continue reading
As more and more people apply for a job, the value of each extra application goes down. But does it go down quickly, or only very gradually? This question matters, because for many of the jobs we discuss, lots of people apply and the application process is highly competitive. Whe … | Continue reading
Some of the most important questions that arise for people trying to make the world a better place are philosophical. What does it mean to live a worthwhile life? What are our obligations to future generations? And how do we decide what to do when we are uncertain about the answe … | Continue reading
If humanity dies out, many millions of years later intelligent life might evolve again. Is there any message we could leave that would reliably help them out? | Continue reading
Prof Tetlock has spent 40 years studying accurate forecasting, collecting 1,000,000s of predictions from 10,000s of participants. | Continue reading
Top legal scholar Prof Cass Sunstein explains and defends his new book, How Change Happens. | Continue reading
Research to keep AI reliable is no more a side-project in AI design than keeping a bridge standing is a side-project in bridge design. | Continue reading
Research to keep AI reliable is no more a side-project in AI design than keeping a bridge standing is a side-project in bridge design. | Continue reading
Seventeen recommendations from someone we think had a high-impact career. | Continue reading
Getting a coveted position is just the start - the real challenge is figuring out how to move the needle in an organisation with millions of staff. | Continue reading
While we tend to have a romanticised view of nature, life in the wild includes a range of extremely negative experiences. | Continue reading
"In developing countries, more teachers or books seem to have no impact." | Continue reading
The US Government is likely to be a key actor in how advanced AI is developed & used in society. | Continue reading
A different theory of what's driving political turmoil & what might happen next. | Continue reading
You have 80,000 hours in your career. How can you use them to make a difference? | Continue reading
It turns out that most Americans believe a child can be prevented from dying of preventable diseases for very little - less than $100. | Continue reading
Questions to ask when something bad happens, in order to get over it as quickly as possible. | Continue reading
Bestselling author Brian Christian on what CS can and can't teach us about when to quit your job, when to marry, the best way to sell your house, and more. | Continue reading
Google Brain's Catherine Olsson & OpenAI's Daniel Ziegler on the fast path to machine learning engineering roles focused on safety and alignment. | Continue reading
Philosophy professor Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, probability inside a multiverse, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions | Continue reading
We encourage people to work on problems that are neglected by others and large in scale. Unfortunately those are precisely the problems where people can do the most damage if their approach isn’t carefully thought through. If a problem is very important, then setting back the cau … | Continue reading
Dr Christiano is a researcher at the ML lab OpenAI who has thought a lot about how advanced AI will play out. | Continue reading
Want to do good as a researcher? The case for & against, strategy, personal fit, & more. | Continue reading
Before leaking the Pentagon Papers Dan Ellsberg made US nuclear war plans. | Continue reading
Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers. But before that he help plan the destruction of most life on Earth. Now he wants to undo it. | Continue reading
After 7 years we try to answer our key question: how to have the biggest positive impact on the world. | Continue reading
“Do the job that’s your comparative advantage” might sound obvious but it's not clear how much the concept applies. | Continue reading
Which global problems most urgently need more people to work on them? We’ve been analysing the world's biggest problems for over 5 years. | Continue reading
Does a heavier clipboard really get job applicants taken more seriously? Try your luck with this quiz. | Continue reading
Does a heavier clipboard really get job applicants taken more seriously? Try your luck with this quiz. | Continue reading
The US has among the world's highest incarceration rate - 0.7% of its population. What effect does this have on crime? | Continue reading
If we actually read the paper we can learn much more than was reported. | Continue reading
9 reasons to apply to grad school right now, and 8 reasons not to. | Continue reading
A list of the most promising vacancies we're aware of. If you’re a good fit for one of these, it could be your best opportunity to help solve one of the world’s most pressing problems. | Continue reading