Podcasts about hours'

Listen to highlights of host Sarah Fenske's conversation with the extremely talented one-woman orchestra, Syna So Pro.

WGN Radio's Dave Plier talks to Frank Sinatra's closest confidant and an eventual member of his management team, Tony Oppedisano, about his new book called ‘Sinatra & Me: In the Wee Small Hours'. Deep into the night, for more than two thousand nights, Frank and Tony would converse—about music, family, friends, great loves, achievements and successes, failures […]

Reporters Jeremy Wallace and Cayla Harris, from the Express-News Austin bureau, share their experiences during the “amazing 48 hours” inside the Texas House of Representatives as Democrats strategized the historical walkout against the controversial SB7.

Reporters Jeremy Wallace and Cayla Harris, from the Express-News Austin bureau, share their experiences during the “amazing 48 hours” inside the Texas House of Representatives as Democrats strategized the historical walkout against the controversial SB7.

Earlier this week it was both shockingly and suddenly revealed that Arclight Cinemas and the Cinerama Dome would be closing their doors. Nick, Brennan, and I discuss this crushing blow to the Hollywood moviegoing experience and what it might mean going forward. Not to be fixated on the negative, Nick also breaks down Ben Wheatley's In the Earth which released this week, and the three of us discuss our recent watch of Martin Scorsese's After Hours.   Sign the petition to save the Cinerama Dome: https://www.change.org/p/arclight-save-the-dome Join the MovieBabble staff: https://moviebabble.com/join-moviebabble/ Like MovieBabble on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moviebabblereviews/ Follow MovieBabble on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moviebabble/ Follow MovieBabble on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MovieBabble_ For more content, be sure to check out the MovieBabble website: https://moviebabble.com/

I can't stand the phrase "we all have the same 24 hours in a day". People say it in a motivational way but honestly - for busy moms - it just leads us into a comparison trap. Don't get me wrong, I understand the intention behind it and realistically, we all do have 24 hours in a day -it's just not the same. But what do we do with it? How can we structure it so that we're intentional about everything on our plate without all the guilt? Oh - any if you need help with figuring out a plan for your goals, make sure you head over to my free on-demand workshop on How to Take Massive Action on your Goals without Overwhelm or Burnout at www.apurposedrivenmom.com/goals and let me help you! FREE GOAL SETTING SERIES: https://apurposedrivenmom.com/goalsetting A PURPOSE DRIVEN MOM SHOW NOTES: apurposedrivenmom.com/podcast112/

Gold Derby editors Marcus James Dixon, Zach Laws and Daniel Montgomery discuss the jaw-dropping surprises and snubs, and what it all means for our individual Oscar predictions.

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Episode 56 : New 52, Superman Vol. 3 #39 - '24 Hours' Rey Zod takes over the airwaves, and invites fellow Zod-onian and guest co-host DJ Nik, to discuss a New 52 Superman issue. Nik is a proflific DJ and podcaster, with shows such as Whiskey & Cigarettes, Happiness in Darkness - The Superhero Movie Podcast, Gold Standard - The Oscars Podcast, The Fandom Zone Podcast and TitanTalk - The Titans Podcast! With two Zods at the helm, there can be only one outcome - complete and utter annihilation (.....in a good and enjoyable way!) Show notes: New 52, Superman Vol. 3 #39 The New 52 Whiskey & Cigarettes (Radio show) Happiness in Darkness - The Superhero Movie Podcast Gold Standard - The Oscars Podcast (Facebook) The Fandom Zone Podcast (Facebook) TitanTalk: The Titans Podcast (Apple Podcasts) SEND IN YOUR FEEDBACK OR THOUGHTS ON - email : lskpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @LSKPodcast FB Page: facebook.com/lskpodcast Proud Member of The Collective The music for this episode contains excerpts from various songs and is copyrighted by Styzmask. The music used on Last Sons of Krypton - A Superman Podcast is licensed under an Attribution License;  

Eric Alper joined us to talk about The Weekend  tapped to headline Super Bowl halftime show.  Alexandra Kress, co-creator and co-producer of ’13 Hours’, talks about a very interesting podcast to watch for. AND… Bonnie Crombie, the Mayor of Mississauga talks about ongoing concerns and confusion over Covid restrictions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If there is one lesson to take away from this podcast interview with South African attorney Joselynn Fember it is: listen. Listening and patience, coupled with hard work, grit and a staggering intelligence, are what won this 27-year old legal entrepreneur the Partner of the Year Award at the recent African Legal Awards. It is an affirmation that was completely unexpected, Joselynn says, mostly because she is fairly new in the game and still young. But, what the award recognised is how the legal world is in dramatic transition as lawyers grapple with the “new normal”. Fresh and inspiring ways of addressing old problems and the vibrant and innovative young minds finding solutions are what the judges were looking for. Joselynn's ability to absorb the frustrations of her clients and then understand how they can be resolved in the context of the broader traditional legal system is what has set her apart so early on in her career. The motto of her firm, Fember Attorney's Incorporated, is “Results. Not Hours”. Billable hours, she says, are inefficient, punitive and susceptible to abuse and do not serve the best interests of the client. “Many clients get little or no satisfaction from traditional or and outdated systems of legal practice. “To enable better access, the firm works to make legal information more available to the public and clients we serve,” she says. Fember Attorney's Incorporated's structure was built around addressing client need with an organised and digitised system of “onboarding” that manages the expectations from the outset. Joselynn's legal specialities are commercial, criminal and family law. She has assisted multinational companies, handled complex high-profile cases and has been invited to speak on several media platforms to advise on different aspects of the law, including criminal law, child law and business law. In the interview she tells Africa Legal's Tom Pearson a little of her own journey to becoming a lawyer as someone from a background hobbled by poverty and alcoholism. She is the first in her family – including her extended family – to achieve a university degree (from the University of the Witwatersrand) which she funded through part-time work and applying for bursaries. This is a landmark interview with one of Africa's emerging legal minds. Joselynn reflects a way of thinking that is building across the continent where lawyers are tenacious, hungry and refuse to accept old ways of doing things. It is a conversation that will put a spring in the step of all young African lawyers. Her message is clear: challenges are there to be faced head on, obstacles are there to be overcome and no boundary cannot be crossed.

No one is safe from this man's tongue - Steve Allen takes to the airwaves on LBC every weekday morning from 4am until 7am and on weekends from 5am until 7am. Hear all of Steve's show with the news, travel and breaks taken out.

This episode features an interview with two comrades from the Angry Workers, a revolutionary collective whose members have been involved in workplace and community organising activity in the supermarket, food, and logistics sector in west London. Their new book, 'Class Power on Zero Hours', is available to buy now from PM Press: https://pmpress.org.uk/product/class-power-on-zero-hours/ The Angry Workers are online at https://angryworkersworld.wordpress.com/ Anyone interested in the issue of class struggle in the logistics sector should also listen to our interview with Kim Moody, about his book 'On New Terrain': https://soundcloud.com/labour-days/episode-10-on-new-terrain-an-interview-with-kim-moody However you're struggling through the pandemic... keep struggling. Solidarity! You might find these websites useful resources for class struggle in the pandemic: Safe & Equal campaign - safeandequal.org Coronavirus Workforce Support Group - facebook.com/groups/coronasupportgroupforworkers Hazards Magazine - hazards.org Nurses United - facebook.com/nursesuniteduk Zero Hours Justice - zerohoursjustice.org Blacklist Support Group - facebook.com/groups/blacklistSG Care Workers vs Covid - unisonnw.org/care_workers_vs_covid_19

If you haven't heard of effective altruism (EA), it is a utilitarian philosophy where a bunch of academics and researchers try to calculate what you should do with your career if you are trying to have the highest social impact. The effective altruists came up with the notion that one very ethical option is actively trying to make as much money as possible and giving as much as you can away, which gave rise to the "Giving What We Can Pledge," which states that you promise to give at least 10% of your income away. One big effective altruist group is an organization called 80,000 Hours which targets college graduates who are trying to figure out what to do with their careers and point them in the most ethical direction. They have a list of causes they believe are the most urgent to address, with "positively shaping the development of artificial intelligence" at the top of the list. We sit down with Deondre's friend Shreye who consulted this website and used its principles to shape his career, and he now works as a data scientist on artificial intelligence. We talk about the politics of who gets to decide what "ethical" means, whether we should prioritize human lives in the future as much as we value current human lives, and the concept of charity (addressing current problems like feeding and vaccinating people) vs. philanthropy (trying to solve the root causes of pervasive issues like hunger and pandemics). Effective Altruism website: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ 80,000 Hours' list of global priorities: https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/#potentially_promising Kiva, a great microfinancing organization to donate to that Shreye used to work for: https://www.kiva.org/ Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

Today's episode is a rebroadcast of our Livestream conversation with SUMO Heavy Co-founder and CEO Bart Mroz, and his guest Taylor Holiday. Taylor is a former athlete and now managing partner at Common Thread Collective. Common Thread Collective is an Online Sales Agency. Their mission is to help entrepreneurs achieve their dreams by focusing on helping consumer product eCommerce businesses scale from 0 - $20M Common Thread Collective https://commonthreadco.com/ This episode was streamed live on May 6, 2020. ________ About the Show: ‘In The Ring' is a weekly podcast about eCommerce hosted by John Suder, Bart Mroz and Brittany Blackman. The show combines interviews with eCommerce leaders together with the latest news and strategies to give listeners actionable ideas and inspiration for their eCommerce businesses. The show is a production of SUMO Heavy, an eCommerce Consulting firm located in Brooklyn NY and Philadelphia. Hosts: John Suder (@johnsuder) - Producer and Director of Marketing at SUMO Heavy https://twitter.com/johnsuder Bart Mroz (@bartmroz) - CEO/Co-founder of SUMO Heavy https://twitter.com/bartmroz Brittany Blackman - Writer and Junior Marketing Coordinator at SUMO Heavy Learn more about SUMO Heavy: http://www.sumoheavy.com Follow Us: Newsletter: SUMO Heavy Weekly https://www.getrevue.co/profile/sumoheavy Twitter: @sumoheavy Sponsorships: off for this episode --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intheringwithsumoheavy/message

This week's episode is a replay of our Live 'Office Hours' with SUMO Heavy Co-founder and CEO Bart Mroz and Sabir Semerkant of GROWTH by Sabir. Bart and Sabir talk about how ecommerce merchants are faring and how they can stay relevant in the uncertain COVID-19 environment. _____ About the Show: ‘In The Ring' is a weekly podcast about eCommerce hosted by John Suder, Bart Mroz and Brittany Blackman. The show combines interviews with eCommerce leaders together with the latest news and strategies to give listeners actionable ideas and inspiration for their eCommerce businesses. The show is a production of SUMO Heavy, an eCommerce Consulting firm located in Brooklyn NY and Philadelphia. Hosts: John Suder (@johnsuder) - Producer and Director of Marketing at SUMO Heavy https://twitter.com/johnsuder Bart Mroz (@bartmroz) - CEO/Co-founder of SUMO Heavy https://twitter.com/bartmroz Brittany Blackman - Writer and Junior Marketing Coordinator at SUMO Heavy Learn more about SUMO Heavy: http://www.sumoheavy.com Follow Us: Newsletter: SUMO Heavy Weekly https://www.getrevue.co/profile/sumoheavy Twitter: @sumoheavy Sponsorships: off for this episode --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intheringwithsumoheavy/message

Our lives currently revolve around the global emergency of COVID-19; you’re probably reading this while confined to your house, as the death toll from the worst pandemic since 1918 continues to rise. The question of how to tackle COVID-19 has been foremost in the minds of many, including here at 80,000 Hours. Today's guest, Dr Gregory Lewis, acting head of the Biosecurity Research Group at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, puts the crisis in context, explaining how COVID-19 compares to other diseases, pandemics of the past, and possible worse crises in the future. COVID-19 is a vivid reminder that we are unprepared to contain or respond to new pathogens. How would we cope with a virus that was even more contagious and even more deadly? Greg's work focuses on these risks -- of outbreaks that threaten our entire future through an unrecoverable collapse of civilisation, or even the extinction of humanity. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. If such a catastrophe were to occur, Greg believes it’s more likely to be caused by accidental or deliberate misuse of biotechnology than by a pathogen developed by nature. There are a few direct causes for concern: humans now have the ability to produce some of the most dangerous diseases in history in the lab; technological progress may enable the creation of pathogens which are nastier than anything we see in nature; and most biotechnology has yet to even be conceived, so we can’t assume all the dangers will be familiar. This is grim stuff, but it needn’t be paralysing. In the years following COVID-19, humanity may be inspired to better prepare for the existential risks of the next century: improving our science, updating our policy options, and enhancing our social cohesion. COVID-19 is a tragedy of stunning proportions, and its immediate threat is undoubtedly worthy of significant resources. But we will get through it; if a future biological catastrophe poses an existential risk, we may not get a second chance. It is therefore vital to learn every lesson we can from this pandemic, and provide our descendants with the security we wish for ourselves. Today’s episode is the hosting debut of our Strategy Advisor, Howie Lempel. 80,000 Hours has focused on COVID-19 for the last few weeks and published over ten pieces about it, and a substantial benefit of this interview was to help inform our own views. As such, at times this episode may feel like eavesdropping on a private conversation, and it is likely to be of most interest to people primarily focused on making the long-term future go as well as possible. In this episode, Howie and Greg cover: • Reflections on the first few months of the pandemic • Common confusions around COVID-19 • How COVID-19 compares to other diseases • What types of interventions have been available to policymakers • Arguments for and against working on global catastrophic biological risks (GCBRs) • How to know if you’re a good fit to work on GCBRs • The response of the effective altruism community, as well as 80,000 Hours in particular, to COVID-19 • And much more. Get this episode by subscribing: type '80,000 Hours' into your podcasting app. Or read the linked transcript. Producer: Keiran Harris. Audio mastering: Ben Cordell. Transcriptions: Zakee Ulhaq.

We’re back with big news on all things TMNT! Listen in as we give you all the details and our first reactions to the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants In Manhattan, Kavaxas, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of the Past, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Deviations, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows! Plus we each run down our top 5 TMNT Songs!What 5 songs would you put on a Best of TMNT album? Let us know!-------------------------Video Game News-------------------------TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan- Australia Rating:http://www.classification.gov.au/Pages/View.aspx?sid=rq3o1%2bvToJ10DsvQBTdCEw%253d%253d&ncdctx=045pcNnoBtjCCTAFQiaXZg%252fBxNGMItwAbF2%252f166G4mlqawLmVA0tWHsHBG9lWpXU- Xbox Achievements:http://www.xboxachievements.com/game/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mutants-in-manhattan/achievements/- Screenshots leaked:http://www.purexbox.com/news/2016/01/exclusive_screens_activision_and_platinums_cel-shaded_teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles_mutants_in_manhattan_pictured- Official Website:http://www.tmntmutantsinmanhattan.com- Official Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO_jtTw87kw- Game Description from Activisionhttps://blog.activision.com/community/games-blog/more-games/blog/2016/01/25/introducing-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mutants-in-manhattan- Social Media:https://www.facebook.com/tmntmutantsinmanhattan/https://twitter.com/TMNTMiMTMNT are playable characters in a new free update for Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6pKyrBsnFs-------------------------TV News-------------------------Mark Hamill will voice a new villain name "Kavaxas" on Season 5 of the Nick Turtleshttp://tmnt.tumblr.com/post/135394384663/mark-hamill-is-coming-to-tmnt-hyperventilatesQ&A w/ Nick Turtles writer Peter DiCiccohttp://tmnt.tumblr.com/post/138678371613/last-week-tmnt-writer-peter-dicicco-stopped-byNickelodeon Resort Rebranding into a Holiday Inn this April.Until then, TMNT Pizza Dinner!http://www.nickhotel.com/m/tmntdinner2K3 #TMNT on Nick Toons!https://t.co/DmN44hFwjdPetition to Nickelodeon to release a boxed set of the 2003 TMNT serieshttps://www.change.org/p/nickelodeon-nickelodeon-to-release-a-boxed-set-of-the-2003-tmnt-seriesTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - 'Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past' Special is Coming to DVD! Mid-March release of the recently-aired Nickelodeon eventhttp://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-Half-Shell-Heroes-Blast-To-The-Past/21820-------------------------Collecting News-------------------------Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadows of the Past Board Gamehttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/idwgames/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-shadows-of-the-past-bMondo Toys Updatehttp://mondotees.com/collections/toysTMNT on Vinyl (mp3’s also available)http://enjoytheride.storenvy.com/products/15784164-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-lets-kick-shell-tribute-7-------------------------Our Top 5 Songs of TMNT!-------------------------Alex:Hi Tek 3 - Spin That Wheel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP_Z7EJ10RMPartners In Kryme - Turtle Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOQPp1Yvtm8MC Hammer - This is What We Do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwshr5uAlOAGym Class Heroes - Shell Shock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrHUliJb0CIVanilla Ice - Ninja Rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_K6971WmAsRyan:Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOQPp1Yvtm8Vanilla Ice - Ninja Rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_K6971WmAsZZ TOP - Can’t Stop Rockin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7RphfDZnkkBig City Rock - Black Betty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrinCuGYVsYSixto Sounds, zircon - Subterranean Kamikaze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9wc5l4hUjQDarby:Hi Tek 3 - Spin That Wheel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP_Z7EJ10RMPartners In Kryme - Turtle Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOQPp1Yvtm8Vanilla Ice - Ninja Rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_K6971WmAsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Pizza Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lXQTz3WXvIBaltimora - Tarzan Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljk0Or9ZlEs-------------------------Comics News-------------------------EXCLUSIVE: HISTORY MUTATES IN "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES DEVIATIONS"http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/exclusive-history-mutates-in-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-deviations-------------------------Movie News-------------------------Michael Bay Michelangelo 2 vs 1https://twitter.com/Soda_hunter/status/677170268838748160Michael Bay Michelangelo 2 vs 1990 Jim Henson Michelangelohttp://powderakacaseyjones.deviantart.com/art/Bayverse-Michelangelo-Re-design-577160656Kraang Confirmed For Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 by Michael Bay during Rolling Stone interview for '13 Hours'http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/13-hours-can-michael-bay-pull-off-a-gritty-movie-about-benghazi-20160104?page=6First Look at "Out of the Shadows" Toys Reveals Kraang and the Technodromehttp://www.ninjapizza.net/2016/01/first-look-at-out-of-shadows-toys.htmlVarious Interviews with the cast on the set of TMNT: Out of the Shadowshttp://screenrant.com/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-2-cast-interviewhttp://youtu.be/e4IOEHUmudAwww.fandango.com/movie-news/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-2-set-visit-report-our-midnight-mission-with-the-half-shelled-heroes-750195Tyler Perry on Why He Joined ‘Ninja Turtles 2’, and What the Oscars Should Do About Its Lack of Diversityhttp://www.slashfilm.com/tyler-perry-baxter-stockman/1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Director Steven Barron Commentaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6paAW7d1S9I-------------------------Mutated Messages-------------------------Josh Denton - @monkeyboi626The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles meet The X-Men https://www.pinterest.com/pin/493003490438182262/Luis Alan Rizo- Conan Fan Correctionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dynsL1qRklI- New TMNT Fan Film Shorthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4mw0yw2aGYSal Otero - @LEESHENLONG10Gaiden Shredderhttps://twitter.com/LEESHENLONG10/status/677304118864650240-------------------------Song of the Show-------------------------http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01730Subterranean KamikazeReMixer(s): Sixto Sounds, zirconComposer(s): Harumi Ueko, Kazuhiko Uehara, Mutsuhiko IzumiSource: Sewer Surfin' (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time - Stage 3 BGM)Check us out on our official website: http://www.turtlepowerpodcast.comFollow us on Twitter: @TMNTpodcastFollow Ryan: @figdonpatFollow Alex: @arodriguez2005Follow Darby: @DarbyTPattonLike us on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TurtlePowerPodcastSubscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/TurtlePowerPodcastShare your feedback with us via email: turtlepowerpodcast@gmail.comSubscribe and Rate us on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/turtle-power-podcast/id533316960 Subscribe & Listen on Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=55235&refid=stprCLICK HERE TO WATCH ON YouTube  CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE MP3

Sagar 'J' Kamnani & Uday Mehta break down the good and bad of the just-passed $2 trillion Coronavirus relief/stimulus bill (1:00), and take a look at the marketing behind the highly-anticipated 'After Hours' by the Weeknd and 'Future Nostalgia' by Dua Lipa (29:30).

Armond & Doc return to go track-by-track on The Weeknd's new album 'After Hours' and try to answer questions like: Does the world want sad boy coke music right now?  Considering he's experimenting with everything from trap to UK garage to drum & bass, what exactly *is* The Weeknd's sound right now?  

This week husband and wife team Paul and Diane Knight stop by to chat with Giles Alderson (The Dare) ad Ian Sharp (The Marker) about making their latest movie '24 Little Hours' for just 10k in 8 Days! A real treat for filmmakers as returning favourite Paul Knight continues his chat from episodes 31 & 32 where he talked very openly about the issue he had when his film Landscape of Lies was involved in a £19.6M tax scam and hoe he over came it and now he is back with his wife and fellow producer Diane Knight to talk about how they made a feature film in 8 days with just 10k to play with. They talk about their process, their days to day on set, casting, asking for favours, getting the film distributed and released to the world. Watch 24 Little Hours here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/24-Hours-London-Fiona-Skinner/dp/B0829GNHZ6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1YS7JS03AM4TH&dchild=1&keywords=24+hours+in+london&qid=1585019910&s=instant-video&sprefix=24+lhours+in+London%2Cinstant-video%2C211&sr=1-1&swrs=42EC4D5742C2C3B8DAFD31DBFB13ABEB   LINKS SPONSORS FREEBIES EVENTS & PROMOS  The Dare has now been released in US & Canada - Order The Dare here: apple.co/32fSWox WATCH The Dare trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5aZVm2drjY LISTEN to episodes 31&32 with Paul here : http://thefilmmakerspodcast.com/ep-31/ Listen to ep 85 with Ian Sharp here: http://thefilmmakerspodcast.com/ep-85-how-to-produce-indie-films-and-finance-films-with-ian-sharp-and-hosts-giles-alderson-andrew-rodger/ WATCH A Serial Killers Guide to Life (OUT NOW)  www.aserialkillersguidetolife.com Raindance events www.raindance.org Giles Alderson's website  Subscribe, listen and review us on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean or wherever you get your podcasts but more importantly, tell you pals about this podcast Follow us on Twitter @filmmakerspod @gilesalderson @robbiemckane  @Food4ThoughtDoc@35mmdop@Cjamesdirect @dan710ths  @FangedUpFilm@thedaremovie @philmblog @DirDomLenoir Music musicbed.com Part of the www.podfixnetwork.squarespace.com

My thoughts on the new album by THE WEEKND "After Hours" (This Clip is from The Shi-Fi Podcast Episode 53)

IT'S EPISODE 53!! The Weeknd "AFTER HOURS" Album Review (1:27). Childish Gambino dropped a SURPRISE album (13:21). Swae Lee having an INSTAGRAM LIVE concert (18:06). Jay Electronica being mad at Joe Budden for having a casual review (20:51). Dirty Money (Donald Trump) Episode was interesting (21:58). Meditation...does anyone else do it besides me (24:05). Seeing my family's life in Italy through Facebook with all this coronavirus stuff going on (26:48). SONG OF THE WEEK (28:49). Shoutouts (30:16). SONGS OF THE WEEK: Shi-Fi: Jack Harlow - HEY BIG HEAD

Many stores have been offering up early 'senior-only hours', a Mariachi band entertains at an HEB and Unicorn Snow Cones is offering up sweets during this tough time

This week Oxford academic and 80,000 Hours trustee Dr Toby Ord released his new book The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. It's about how our long-term future could be better than almost anyone believes, but also how humanity's recklessness is putting that future at grave risk — in Toby's reckoning, a 1 in 6 chance of being extinguished this century. I loved the book and learned a great deal from it (buy it here, US and audiobook release March 24). While preparing for this interview I copied out 87 facts that were surprising, shocking or important. Here's a sample of 16: 1. The probability of a supervolcano causing a civilisation-threatening catastrophe in the next century is estimated to be 100x that of asteroids and comets combined. 2. The Biological Weapons Convention — a global agreement to protect humanity — has just four employees, and a smaller budget than an average McDonald’s. 3. In 2008 a 'gamma ray burst' reached Earth from another galaxy, 10 billion light years away. It was still bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. We aren't sure what generates gamma ray bursts but one cause may be two neutron stars colliding. 4. Before detonating the first nuclear weapon, scientists in the Manhattan Project feared that the high temperatures in the core, unprecedented for Earth, might be able to ignite the hydrogen in water. This would set off a self-sustaining reaction that would burn off the Earth’s oceans, killing all life above ground. They thought this was unlikely, but many atomic scientists feared their calculations could be missing something. As far as we know, the US President was never informed of this possibility, but similar risks were one reason Hitler stopped… N.B. I've had to cut off this list as we only get 4,000 characters in these show notes, so: Click here to read the whole list, see a full transcript, and find related links. And if you like the list, you can get a free copy of the introduction and first chapter by joining our mailing list. While I've been studying these topics for years and known Toby for the last eight, a remarkable amount of what's in The Precipice was new to me. Of course the book isn't a series of isolated amusing facts, but rather a systematic review of the many ways humanity's future could go better or worse, how we might know about them, and what might be done to improve the odds. And that's how we approach this conversation, first talking about each of the main threats, then how we can learn about things that have never happened before, then finishing with what a great future for humanity might look like and how it might be achieved. Toby is a famously good explainer of complex issues — a bit of a modern Carl Sagan character — so as expected this was a great interview, and one which Arden Koehler and I barely even had to work for. Some topics Arden and I ask about include: • What Toby changed his mind about while writing the book • Are people exaggerating when they say that climate change could actually end civilization? • What can we learn from historical pandemics? • Toby’s estimate of unaligned AI causing human extinction in the next century • Is this century the most important time in human history, or is that a narcissistic delusion? • Competing vision for humanity's ideal future • And more. Get this episode by subscribing: type '80,000 Hours' into your podcasting app. Or read the linked transcript. Producer: Keiran Harris. Audio mastering: Ben Cordell. Transcriptions: Zakee Ulhaq.

After the fun we had airing our 25th live episode at Curiosity Coffee, owner Greg Slattery proposed we start doing the occasional 'after hours' live podcast featuring a wine guest as well as a special musical guest, so here goes.  This episode features Sean Walsh of Merryvale and Starmont Wines, as well as amazing musical guest Hunter Park of She Returns from  War.  Action packed episode, so buckle up, and let's ride! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in May 2018. Joseph Stalin had a life-extension program dedicated to making himself immortal. What if he had succeeded? According to Bryan Caplan in episode #32, there’s an 80% chance that Stalin would still be ruling Russia today. Today’s guest disagrees. Like Stalin he has eyes for his own immortality - including an insurance plan that will cover the cost of cryogenically freezing himself after he dies - and thinks the technology to achieve it might be around the corner. Fortunately for humanity though, that guest is probably one of the nicest people on the planet: Dr Anders Sandberg of Oxford University. Full transcript of the conversation, summary, and links to learn more. The potential availability of technology to delay or even stop ageing means this disagreement matters, so he has been trying to model what would really happen if both the very best and the very worst people in the world could live forever - among many other questions. Anders, who studies low-probability high-stakes risks and the impact of technological change at the Future of Humanity Institute, is the first guest to appear twice on the 80,000 Hours Podcast and might just be the most interesting academic at Oxford. His research interests include more or less everything, and bucking the academic trend towards intense specialization has earned him a devoted fan base. Last time we asked him why we don’t see aliens, and how to most efficiently colonise the universe. In today’s episode we ask about Anders’ other recent papers, including: • Is it worth the money to freeze your body after death in the hope of future revival, like Anders has done? • How much is our perception of the risk of nuclear war biased by the fact that we wouldn’t be alive to think about it had one happened? • If biomedical research lets us slow down ageing would culture stagnate under the crushing weight of centenarians? • What long-shot drugs can people take in their 70s to stave off death? • Can science extend human (waking) life by cutting our need to sleep? • How bad would it be if a solar flare took down the electricity grid? Could it happen? • If you’re a scientist and you discover something exciting but dangerous, when should you keep it a secret and when should you share it? • Will lifelike robots make us more inclined to dehumanise one another? Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

How To Grow A YouTube Channel From Nothing My #1 Recommendation To Make A Full-Time Income Online: CLICK HERE: ⏩⏩http://bit.ly/2DXxBFj In today's video, let's talk about the 3 things you need to do in order to grow a Youtube channel from nothing! Youtube is the world's 2nd largest search engine, so it makes sense to use it in your digital marketing. However, you might be worried that growing a Youtube channel from nothing will take a lot of time and effort.... Worry not! I'll walk you through the things you need to do, and it's a lot more simple than you think! Get my free book '30 Hours' to save yourself time each week to run your business! http://oberondemonet.co.uk/get-started/ ❤️Connect with me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OberonDM ❤️ Check out some more awesome videos: ✅How To Drive Traffic From YouTube To Your Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwMP4F_-ie0 ✅Never run out of ideas for content: https://youtu.be/bAs4CTAuWjw DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE! It's safe to assume that any links are affiliate links and I will be compensated if you go on to take action after clicking that link. It's a great way of supporting y channel without any additional cost to you!

How To Make Thumbnails For Free! My #1 Recommendation To Make A Full-Time Income Online: CLICK HERE: ⏩⏩http://bit.ly/2DXxBFj Let's talk about how you can make thumbnails for FREE! Thumbnails on Youtube are very important - they are usually the thing that gets people to click on your video once it pops up in search. I've got a few tips on how to make killer thumbnails, the biggest mistake people usually make with them, and how to make it as easy as possible to do! Links mentioned: www.Canva.com MorningFame: https://morningfa.me/invite/82hd1qzy Get my free book '30 Hours' to save yourself time each week to run your business! http://oberondemonet.co.uk/get-started/ ❤️Connect with me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OberonDM ❤️ Check out some more awesome videos: ✅Video Ideas For Your YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyeTchOHGvs ✅How To Make Money On YouTube Videos Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojLT5LyNvVo DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE! It's safe to assume that any links are affiliate links and I will be compensated if you go on to take action after clicking that link. It's a great way of supporting y channel without any additional cost to you!

My #1 Recommendation To Make A Full-Time Income Online: CLICK HERE: ⏩⏩http://bit.ly/2DXxBFj Let's talk about the 3 ways you can get Free traffic to your affiliate offers! Get my free book '30 Hours' to save yourself time each week to run your business! http://oberondemonet.co.uk/get-started/ ❤️Connect with me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OberonDM ❤️ Check out some more awesome videos: ✅Get free traffic from Facebook: https://youtu.be/yHbrb_AZSBA ✅How To Make A Ton Of Money On YouTube Without Creating Your Own Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jULGyYP9pQ DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE! It's safe to assume that any links are affiliate links and I will be compensated if you go on to take action after clicking that link. It's a great way of supporting y channel without any additional cost to you!

My #1 Recommendation To Make A Full-Time Income Online: CLICK HERE: ⏩⏩http://bit.ly/2DXxBFj Youtube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world (and you thought it was just for cat videos!). So let's talk about how you can optimise your Youtube videos for SEO - making them more likely to be shown to people who are searching your your topic! Links mentioned: MorningFame: https://morningfa.me/invite/82hd1qzy TubeBuddy: https://www.tubebuddy.com/OberonDM Get my free book '30 Hours' to save yourself time each week to run your business! http://oberondemonet.co.uk/get-started/ ❤️Connect with me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OberonDM ❤️ Check out some more awesome videos: ✅How To Drive Traffic From YouTube To Your Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwMP4F_-ie0 ✅Never run out of ideas for content: https://youtu.be/bAs4CTAuWjw DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE! It's safe to assume that any links are affiliate links and I will be compensated if you go on to take action after clicking that link. It's a great way of supporting y channel without any additional cost to you!

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Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in January 2018. Immanuel Kant is a profoundly influential figure in modern philosophy, and was one of the earliest proponents for universal democracy and international cooperation. He also thought that women have no place in civil society, that it was okay to kill illegitimate children, and that there was a ranking in the moral worth of different races. Throughout history we’ve consistently believed, as common sense, truly horrifying things by today’s standards. According to University of Oxford Professor Will MacAskill, it’s extremely likely that we’re in the same boat today. If we accept that we’re probably making major moral errors, how should we proceed?• Full transcript, key points & links to articles discussed in the show. If our morality is tied to common sense intuitions, we’re probably just preserving these biases and moral errors. Instead we need to develop a moral view that criticises common sense intuitions, and gives us a chance to move beyond them. And if humanity is going to spread to the stars it could be worth dedicating hundreds or thousands of years to moral reflection, lest we spread our errors far and wide. Will is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Oxford University, author of Doing Good Better, and one of the co-founders of the effective altruism (EA) community. In this interview we discuss a wide range of topics: • How would we go about a ‘long reflection’ to fix our moral errors? • Will’s forthcoming book on how one should reason and act if you don't know which moral theory is correct. What are the practical implications of so-called ‘moral uncertainty’? • If we basically solve existential risks, what does humanity do next? • What are some of Will’s most unusual philosophical positions? • What are the best arguments for and against utilitarianism? • Given disagreements among philosophers, how much should we believe the findings of philosophy as a field? • What are some the biases we should be aware of within academia? • What are some of the downsides of becoming a professor? • What are the merits of becoming a philosopher? • How does the media image of EA differ to the actual goals of the community? • What kinds of things would you like to see the EA community do differently? • How much should we explore potentially controversial ideas? • How focused should we be on diversity? • What are the best arguments against effective altruism? Get this episode by subscribing: type '80,000 Hours' into your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in October 2018. The barista gives you your coffee and change, and you walk away from the busy line. But you suddenly realise she gave you $1 less than she should have. Do you brush your way past the people now waiting, or just accept this as a dollar you’re never getting back? According to philosophy Professor Hilary Greaves - Director of Oxford University's Global Priorities Institute, which is hiring - this simple decision will completely change the long-term future by altering the identities of almost all future generations. How? Because by rushing back to the counter, you slightly change the timing of everything else people in line do during that day - including changing the timing of the interactions they have with everyone else. Eventually these causal links will reach someone who was going to conceive a child. By causing a child to be conceived a few fractions of a second earlier or later, you change the sperm that fertilizes their egg, resulting in a totally different person. So asking for that $1 has now made the difference between all the things that this actual child will do in their life, and all the things that the merely possible child - who didn't exist because of what you did - would have done if you decided not to worry about it. As that child's actions ripple out to everyone else who conceives down the generations, ultimately the entire human population will become different, all for the sake of your dollar. Will your choice cause a future Hitler to be born, or not to be born? Probably both! • Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. Some find this concerning. The actual long term effects of your decisions are so unpredictable, it looks like you’re totally clueless about what's going to lead to the best outcomes. It might lead to decision paralysis - you won’t be able to take any action at all. Prof Greaves doesn’t share this concern for most real life decisions. If there’s no reasonable way to assign probabilities to far-future outcomes, then the possibility that you might make things better in completely unpredictable ways is more or less canceled out by equally likely opposite possibility. But, if instead we’re talking about a decision that involves highly-structured, systematic reasons for thinking there might be a general tendency of your action to make things better or worse -- for example if we increase economic growth -- Prof Greaves says that we don’t get to just ignore the unforeseeable effects. When there are complex arguments on both sides, it's unclear what probabilities you should assign to this or that claim. Yet, given its importance, whether you should take the action in question actually does depend on figuring out these numbers. So, what do we do? Today’s episode blends philosophy with an exploration of the mission and research agenda of the Global Priorities Institute: to develop the effective altruism movement within academia. We cover: • How controversial is the multiverse interpretation of quantum physics? • Given moral uncertainty, how should population ethics affect our real life decisions? • What are the consequences of cluelessness for those who based their donation advice on GiveWell style recommendations? • How could reducing extinction risk be a good cause for risk-averse people? Get this episode by subscribing: type '80,000 Hours' into your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

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BONUS STORY TIME! Allyson and Jack talk about getting ready for their live show. This bonus story is inspired by our conversation with Trevor Morgan about his short script, '10 Hours' and is NOT included in the actual episode. The full episode comes out Wednesday, November 13, 2019, but you can read the script now at ScriptShopShow.com/scripts

Toronto Wolfpack UK general manager Martin Vickers says the signing of Sonny Bill Williams has brought 'unbelievable excitement'.He told Radio Sport's Jason Pine that he hasn't slept in the last 48 hours and thinks Sonny Bill's presence will lift the club, the Super League, and the game in both the UK and Canada.

Hey y'all! In this week's episode we're getting you Scrubbed In to what's been happening on our Equine Rotation of Final Year. It's a shorter rotation than our small animal blocks, but still jam packed full of experience and information. A part of our Equine Rotation includes scheduled time on an 'Out of Hours' rota in the hospital. We call it Cottage Duty, but you'll have to listen to this week's episode to find out why we call it that. Also in this episode we break down the lessons we learn from being on Cottage Duty, specifically how it applies to being a good Top Gun (check out episode 3 of That Vet Life to learn where that reference originated from). On another note, as Dani and I approach the final stretch of core rotations and our NAVLE exams we will be taking a brief break from the podcast. So after next week's episode you can expect a bit of radio silence as we focus all our energy on our studies to prep for exams. As always, we love hearing from y'all and you can reach us on Instagram @ThatVet_Life and @adventurous.vet Till next time, see ya! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thatvet-life/message

Unframed — This episode is a talk that I recorded as part of Latitudes Art Fair last month, September 2019. It is an informal panel discussion, which was hosted by the brilliant Michelle Constant, is entitled “How to change the art world in 2 hours”. Thirteen artists, curators, gallerists, critics and arts advocates were invited to respond to this provocation. Each speaker had 5 minutes to champion their utopian wishes or practical solutions to make the art world a more supportive, equal and engaged space. Thank you to Latitudes Art Fair for allowing me to record this talk and to publish it on the Unframed platform. Enjoy listening to this wonderfully interesting and collaborative presentation. This is the list of speakers in order and where to find them: Hosted by Michelle Constant @michelleconstant_ Sean O’Toole - Journalist, art critic and editor @seanwotoole Mike Mavura - Stellenbosch Triennale / Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography @tigere_mavura @stellenboschtriennale Valerie Kabov - Director at First Floor Gallery Harare, Editor at large Art Africa Magazine @firstfloorgalleryharare Sibongile Metsing - South African Mint @southafricanmint Roelof van Wyk - Artist, Director of the Social Impact Arts Prize @afrikanae @socialimpactartsprizeza Tamzin Lovell - Artfundi Art Management Software Founder and Director @tamzinlovellmiller Pitika Ntuli - Sculptor, poet, writer and academic @pitika_ntuli Daudi Karungi - Artist, curator, owner of Afriart Gallery @afriartgallery @daudikarungi Kefiloe Siwisa - Curator @womlambo Zen Marie - Artist and academic @znmarie Michael Memeo - Director at Gallery TINY Harlem @gallerytinyharlem Stephen Hobbs - Artist, Co-director at The Trinity Session @hobbsstep @thetrinitysession Mbali Tshabalala - Artist, Curator @mbali_tshabalala_

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Alphabetallica listener, Michael Hampton, joins Tom to dig into the band's diabolically doomy Holocaust cover, 'The Small Hours'.   Check out Tom's new Tom Waits podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tom-waits-podcast-a-z-tom-waits-show/id1459811402    Check out Tom's battle rap podcast, 'Battle Rap Resume' here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/battle-rap-resume/id1075806297?mt=2 Help support Alphabetallica and get access to content weeks before it drops on the channel: www.patreon.com/alphabetallica  Follow the show @metallicapod Get in touch: metallicapod@gmail.com 

Danny Boyle - the man behind 'Trainspotting', 'Slumdog Millonaire', '127 Hours', '28 Days Later' and the London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony. Now that his new film about a world without The Beatles is finally out, Azeem and Adam take this opportunity to discuss Boyle's Oscar-winning and era-defining filmography, including his newest release, 'Yesterday'. As one of the most interesting British filmmakers of his time, Boyle has proven his talents through an eclectic set of films spanning many genres, but each carrying his undeniable energy. Azeem and Adam also discuss their love of The Beatles, Aaron Sorkin and Richard Ayoade.  For more updates, follow us @podfuzz on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 

You’re 29 years old, and you’ve just been given a job in the White House. How do you quickly figure out how the US Executive Branch behemoth actually works, so that you can have as much impact as possible - before you quit or get kicked out? That was the challenge put in front of Tom Kalil in 1993. He had enough success to last a full 16 years inside the Clinton and Obama administrations, working to foster the development of the internet, then nanotechnology, and then cutting-edge brain modelling, among other things. But not everyone figures out how to move the needle. In today's interview, Tom shares his experience with how to increase your chances of getting an influential role in government, and how to make the most of the opportunity if you get in. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. Interested in US AI policy careers? Apply for one-on-one career advice here. Vacancies at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Our high-impact job board, which features other related opportunities. He believes that Congressional gridlock leads people to greatly underestimate how much the Executive Branch can and does do on its own every day. Decisions by individuals change how billions of dollars are spent; regulations are enforced, and then suddenly they aren't; and a single sentence in the State of the Union can get civil servants to pay attention to a topic that would otherwise go ignored. Over years at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 'Team Kalil' built up a white board of principles. For example, 'the schedule is your friend': setting a meeting date with the President can force people to finish something, where they otherwise might procrastinate. Or 'talk to who owns the paper'. People would wonder how Tom could get so many lines into the President's speeches. The answer was "figure out who's writing the speech, find them with the document, and tell them to add the line." Obvious, but not something most were doing. Not everything is a precise operation though. Tom also tells us the story of NetDay, a project that was put together at the last minute because the President incorrectly believed it was already organised – and decided he was going to announce it in person. In today's episode we get down to nuts & bolts, and discuss: • How did Tom spin work on a primary campaign into a job in the next White House? • Why does Tom think hiring is the most important work he did, and how did he decide who to bring onto the team? • How do you get people to do things when you don't have formal power over them? • What roles in the US government are most likely to help with the long-term future, or reducing existential risks? • Is it possible, or even desirable, to get the general public interested in abstract, long-term policy ideas? • What are 'policy entrepreneurs' and why do they matter? • What is the role for prizes in promoting science and technology? What are other promising policy ideas? • Why you can get more done by not taking credit. • What can the White House do if an agency isn't doing what it wants? • How can the effective altruism community improve the maturity of our policy recommendations? • How much can talented individuals accomplish during a short-term stay in government? 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.. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

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“Politics. Business. Opinion. Science. Sports. Animal welfare. Existential risk.” Is this a plausible future lineup for major news outlets? Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and given very little editorial direction, Vox's Future Perfect aspires to be more or less that. Competition in the news business creates pressure to write quick pieces on topical political issues that can drive lots of clicks with just a few hours' work. But according to Kelsey Piper, staff writer for this new section of Vox's website focused on effective altruist themes, Future Perfect's goal is to run in the opposite direction and make room for more substantive coverage that's not tied to the news cycle. They hope that in the long-term talented writers from other outlets across the political spectrum can also be attracted to tackle these topics. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. Links to Kelsey's top articles. Some skeptics of the project have questioned whether this general coverage of global catastrophic risks actually helps reduce them. Kelsey responds: if you decide to dedicate your life to AI safety research, what’s the likely reaction from your family and friends? Do they think of you as someone about to join "that weird Silicon Valley apocalypse thing"? Or do they, having read about the issues widely, simply think “Oh, yeah. That seems important. I'm glad you're working on it.” Kelsey believes that really matters, and is determined by broader coverage of these kinds of topics. If that's right, is journalism a plausible pathway for doing the most good with your career, or did Kelsey just get particularly lucky? After all, journalism is a shrinking industry without an obvious revenue model to fund many writers looking into the world's most pressing problems. Kelsey points out that one needn't take the risk of committing to journalism at an early age. Instead listeners can specialise in an important topic, while leaving open the option of switching into specialist journalism later on, should a great opportunity happen to present itself. In today’s episode we discuss that path, as well as: • What’s the day to day life of a Vox journalist like? • How can good journalism get funded? • Are there meaningful tradeoffs between doing what's in the interest of Vox and doing what’s good? • How concerned should we be about the risk of effective altruism being perceived as partisan? • How well can short articles effectively communicate complicated ideas? • Are there alternative business models that could fund high quality journalism on a larger scale? • How do you approach the case for taking AI seriously to a broader audience? • How valuable might it be for media outlets to do Tetlock-style forecasting? • Is it really a good idea to heavily tax billionaires? • How do you avoid the pressure to get clicks? • How possible is it to predict which articles are going to be popular? • How did Kelsey build the skills necessary to work at Vox? • General lessons for people dealing with very difficult life circumstances Rob is then joined by two of his colleagues – Keiran Harris & Michelle Hutchinson – to quickly discuss: • The risk political polarisation poses to long-termist causes • How should specialists keep journalism available as a career option? • Should we create a news aggregator that aims to make someone as well informed as possible in big-picture terms? 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. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

This is a cross-post of an interview Rob did with Julia Galef on her podcast Rationally Speaking. Rob and Julia discuss how the career advice 80,000 Hours gives has changed over the years, and the biggest misconceptions about our views. The topics will be familiar to the most fervent fans of this show — but we think that if you’ve listened to less than about half of the episodes we've released so far, you’ll find something new to enjoy here. Julia may be familiar to you as the guest on episode 7 of the show, way back in September 2017. The conversation also covers topics like: • How many people should try to get a job in finance and donate their income? • The case for working to reduce global catastrophic risks in targeted ways, and historical precedents for this kind of work • Why reducing risk is a better way to help the future than increasing economic growth • What percentage of the world should ideally follow 80,000 Hours advice? Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. If you’re interested in the cooling and expansion of the universe, which comes up on the show, you should definitely check out our 29th episode with Dr Anders Sandberg. 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 any podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Pro-market economists love to wax rhapsodic about the capacity of markets to pull together the valuable local information spread across all of society about what people want and how to make it. But when it comes to politics and voting - which also aim to aggregate the preferences and knowledge found in millions of individuals - the enthusiasm for finding clever institutional designs often turns to skepticism. Today's guest, freewheeling economist Glen Weyl, won't have it, and is on a warpath to reform liberal democratic institutions in order to save them. Just last year he wrote Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society with Eric Posner, but has already moved on, saying "in the 6 months since the book came out I've made more intellectual progress than in the whole 10 years before that." Weyl believes we desperately need more efficient, equitable and decentralised ways to organise society, that take advantage of what each person knows, and his research agenda has already been making breakthroughs. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript Our high impact job board Join our newsletter Despite a history in the best economics departments in the world - Harvard, Princeton, Yale and the University of Chicago - he is too worried for the future to sit in his office writing papers. Instead he has left the academy to try to inspire a social movement, RadicalxChange, with a vision of social reform as expansive as his own. You can sign up for their conference in Detroit in March here Economist Alex Tabarrok called his latest proposal, known as 'liberal radicalism', "a quantum leap in public-goods mechanism-design" - we explain how it works in the show. But the proposal, however good in theory, might struggle in the real world because it requires large subsidies, and compensates for people's selfishness so effectively that it might even be an overcorrection. An earlier mechanism - 'quadratic voting' (QV) - would allow people to express the relative strength of their preferences in the democratic process. No longer would 51 people who support a proposal, but barely care about the issue, outvote 49 incredibly passionate opponents, predictably making society worse in the process. We explain exactly how in the episode. Weyl points to studies showing that people are more likely to vote strongly not only about issues they *care* more about, but issues they *know* more about. He expects that allowing people to specialise and indicate when they know what they're talking about will create a democracy that does more to aggregate careful judgement, rather than just passionate ignorance. But these and indeed all of Weyl's ideas have faced criticism. Some say the risk of unintended consequences is too great, or that they solve the wrong problem. Others see these proposals as unproven, impractical, or just another example of an intellectual engaged in grand social planning. I raise these concerns to see how he responds. As big a topic as all of that is, this extended conversation also goes into the blockchain, problems with the effective altruism community and how auctions could replace private property. Don't miss it. 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. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in October 2017. What if you were in a position to give away billions of dollars to improve the world? What would you do with it? This is the problem facing Program Officers at the Open Philanthropy Project - people like Dr Nick Beckstead. Following a PhD in philosophy, Nick works to figure out where money can do the most good. He’s been involved in major grants in a wide range of areas, including ending factory farming through technological innovation, safeguarding the world from advances in biotechnology and artificial intelligence, and spreading rational compassion. Links to learn more, episode summary & full transcript These are the world’s highest impact career paths according to our research Why despite global progress, humanity is probably facing its most dangerous time ever This episode is a tour through some of the toughest questions ‘effective altruists’ face when figuring out how to best improve the world, including: * Should we mostly try to help people currently alive, or future generations? Nick studied this question for years in his PhD thesis, On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future. (The first 31 minutes of this episode is a snappier version of my conversation with Toby Ord.) * Is clean meat (aka *in vitro* meat) technologically feasible any time soon, or should we be looking for plant-based alternatives? * What are the greatest risks to human civilisation? * To stop malaria is it more cost-effective to use technology to eliminate mosquitos than to distribute bed nets? * Should people who want to improve the future work for changes that will be very useful in a specific scenario, or just generally try to improve how well humanity makes decisions? * What specific jobs should our listeners take in order for Nick to be able to spend more money in useful ways to improve the world? * Should we expect the future to be better if the economy grows more quickly - or more slowly? 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. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Politics in rich countries seems to be going nuts. What's the explanation? Rising inequality? The decline of manufacturing jobs? Excessive immigration? Martin Gurri spent decades as a CIA analyst and in his 2014 book The Revolt of The Public and Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium, predicted political turbulence for an entirely different reason: new communication technologies were flipping the balance of power between the public and traditional authorities. In 1959 the President could control the narrative by leaning on his friends at four TV stations, who felt it was proper to present the nation's leader in a positive light, no matter their flaws. Today, it's impossible to prevent someone from broadcasting any grievance online, whether it's a contrarian insight or an insane conspiracy theory. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. According to Gurri, trust in society's institutions - police, journalists, scientists and more - has been undermined by constant criticism from outsiders, and exposed to a cacophony of conflicting opinions on every issue, the public takes fewer truths for granted. We are now free to see our leaders as the flawed human beings they always have been, and are not amused. Suspicious they are being betrayed by elites, the public can also use technology to coordinate spontaneously and express its anger. Keen to 'throw the bastards out' protesters take to the streets, united by what they don't like, but without a shared agenda or the institutional infrastructure to figure out how to fix things. Some popular movements have come to view any attempt to exercise power over others as suspect. If Gurri is to be believed, protest movements in Egypt, Spain, Greece and Israel in 2011 followed this script, while Brexit, Trump and the French yellow vests movement subsequently vindicated his theory. In this model, politics won't return to its old equilibrium any time soon. The leaders of tomorrow will need a new message and style if they hope to maintain any legitimacy in this less hierarchical world. Otherwise, we're in for decades of grinding conflict between traditional centres of authority and the general public, who doubt both their loyalty and competence. But how much should we believe this theory? Why do Canada and Australia remain pools of calm in the storm? Aren't some malcontents quite concrete in their demands? And are protest movements actually more common (or more nihilistic) than they were decades ago? In today's episode we ask these questions and add an hour-long discussion with two of Rob's colleagues - Keiran Harris and Michelle Hutchinson - to further explore the ideas in the book. The conversation covers: * How do we know that the internet is driving this rather than some other phenomenon? * How do technological changes enable social and political change? * The historical role of television * Are people also more disillusioned now with sports heroes and actors? * Which countries are finding good ways to make politics work in this new era? * What are the implications for the threat of totalitarianism? * What is this is going to do to international relations? Will it make it harder for countries to cooperate and avoid conflict? 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. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in September 2017. Every year tens of billions of animals are raised in terrible conditions in factory farms before being killed for human consumption. Over the last two years Lewis Bollard – Project Officer for Farm Animal Welfare at the Open Philanthropy Project – has conducted extensive research into the best ways to eliminate animal suffering in farms as soon as possible. This has resulted in $30 million in grants to farm animal advocacy. Links to learn more, episode summary & full transcript Jobs focussed on ending factory farming Problem profile: factory farming We covered almost every approach being taken, which ones work, and how individuals can best contribute through their careers. We also had time to venture into a wide range of issues that are less often discussed, including: * Why Lewis thinks insect farming would be worse than the status quo, and whether we should look for ‘humane’ insecticides; * How young people can set themselves up to contribute to scientific research into meat alternatives; * How genetic manipulation of chickens has caused them to suffer much more than their ancestors, but could also be used to make them better off; * Why Lewis is skeptical of vegan advocacy; * Why he doubts that much can be done to tackle factory farming through legal advocacy or electoral politics; * Which species of farm animals is best to focus on first; * Whether fish and crustaceans are conscious, and if so what can be done for them; * And many others 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. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in October 2017. Take a trip to Silicon Valley in the 70s and 80s, when going to space sounded like a good way to get around environmental limits, people started cryogenically freezing themselves, and nanotechnology looked like it might revolutionise industry – or turn us all into grey goo. In this episode of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, Christine Peterson takes us back to her youth in the Bay Area, the ideas she encountered there, and what the dreamers she met did as they grew up. Links to learn more, episode summary & full transcript Today Christine helps runs the Foresight Institute, which fills a gap left by for-profit technology companies – predicting how new revolutionary technologies could go wrong, and ensuring we steer clear of the downsides. We also explore: * Whether the poor security of computer systems poses a catastrophic risk for the world. Could all our essential services be taken down at once? And if so, what can be done about it? * Can technology ‘move fast and break things’ without eventually breaking the world? Would it be better for technology to advance more quickly, or more slowly? * Will AIs designed for wide-scale automated hacking make computers more or less secure? * Would it be good to radically extend human lifespan? Is it sensible to cryogenically freeze yourself in the hope of being resurrected in the future? * Could atomically precise manufacturing (nanotechnology) really work? Why was it initially so controversial and why did people stop worrying about it? * Should people who try to do good in their careers work long hours and take low salaries? Or should they take care of themselves first of all? * How she thinks the the effective altruism community resembles the scene she was involved with when she was wrong, and where it might be going wrong. 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. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

If an asteroid impact or nuclear winter blocked the sun for years, our inability to grow food would result in billions dying of starvation, right? According to Dr David Denkenberger, co-author of Feeding Everyone No Matter What: no. If he's to be believed, nobody need starve at all. Even without the sun, David sees the Earth as a bountiful food source. Mushrooms farmed on decaying wood. Bacteria fed with natural gas. Fish and mussels supported by sudden upwelling of ocean nutrients - and more. Dr Denkenberger is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and he's out to spread the word that while a nuclear winter might be horrible, experts have been mistaken to assume that mass starvation is an inevitability. In fact, the only thing that would prevent us from feeding the world is insufficient preparation. ∙ Links to learn more, summary and full transcript Not content to just write a book pointing this out, David has gone on to found a growing non-profit - the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) - to prepare the world to feed everyone come what may. He expects that today 10% of people would find enough food to survive a massive disaster. In principle, if we did everything right, nobody need go hungry. But being more realistic about how much we're likely to invest, David thinks a plan to inform people ahead of time could save 30%, and a decent research and development scheme 80%. ∙ 80,000 Hours' updated article on How to find the best charity to give to ∙ A potential donor evaluates ALLFED According to David's published cost-benefit analyses, work on this problem may be able to save lives, in expectation, for under $100 each, making it an incredible investment. These preparations could also help make humanity more resilient to global catastrophic risks, by forestalling an ‘everyone for themselves' mentality, which then causes trade and civilization to unravel. But some worry that David's cost-effectiveness estimates are exaggerations, so I challenge him on the practicality of his approach, and how much his non-profit's work would actually matter in a post-apocalyptic world. In our extensive conversation, we cover: * How could the sun end up getting blocked, or agriculture otherwise be decimated? * What are all the ways we could we eat nonetheless? What kind of life would this be? * Can these methods be scaled up fast? * What is his organisation, ALLFED, actually working on? * How does he estimate the cost-effectiveness of this work, and what are the biggest weaknesses of the approach? * How would more food affect the post-apocalyptic world? Won't people figure it out at that point anyway? * Why not just leave guidebooks with this information in every city? * Would these preparations make nuclear war more likely? * What kind of people is ALLFED trying to hire? * What would ALLFED do with more money? * How he ended up doing this work. And his other engineering proposals for improving the world, including ideas to prevent a supervolcano explosion. 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. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

If I told you it's possible to deliver an extra year of ideal primary-level education for under $1, would you believe me? Hopefully not - the claim is absurd on its face. But it may be true nonetheless. The very best education interventions are phenomenally cost-effective, and they're not the kinds of things you'd expect, says Dr Rachel Glennerster. She's Chief Economist at the UK's foreign aid agency DFID, and used to run J-PAL, the world-famous anti-poverty research centre based in MIT's Economics Department, where she studied the impact of a wide range of approaches to improving education, health, and governing institutions. According to Dr Glennerster: "...when we looked at the cost effectiveness of education programs, there were a ton of zeros, and there were a ton of zeros on the things that we spend most of our money on. So more teachers, more books, more inputs, like smaller class sizes - at least in the developing world - seem to have no impact, and that's where most government money gets spent." "But measurements for the top ones - the most cost effective programs - say they deliver 460 LAYS per £100 spent ($US130). LAYS are Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling. Each one is the equivalent of the best possible year of education you can have - Singapore-level." Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. "...the two programs that come out as spectacularly effective... well, the first is just rearranging kids in a class." "You have to test the kids, so that you can put the kids who are performing at grade two level in the grade two class, and the kids who are performing at grade four level in the grade four class, even if they're different ages - and they learn so much better. So that's why it's so phenomenally cost effective because, it really doesn't cost anything." "The other one is providing information. So sending information over the phone [for example about how much more people earn if they do well in school and graduate]. So these really small nudges. Now none of those nudges will individually transform any kid's life, but they are so cheap that you get these fantastic returns on investment - and we do very little of that kind of thing." In this episode, Dr Glennerster shares her decades of accumulated wisdom on which anti-poverty programs are overrated, which are neglected opportunities, and how we can know the difference, across a range of fields including health, empowering women and macroeconomic policy. Regular listeners will be wondering - have we forgotten all about the lessons from episode 30 of the show with Dr Eva Vivalt? She threw several buckets of cold water on the hope that we could accurately measure the effectiveness of social programs at all. According to Vivalt, her dataset of hundreds of randomised controlled trials indicates that social science findings don’t generalize well at all. The results of a trial at a school in Namibia tell us remarkably little about how a similar program will perform if delivered at another school in Namibia - let alone if it's attempted in India instead. Rachel offers a different and more optimistic interpretation of Eva's findings. To learn more and figure out who you sympathise with more, you'll just have to listen to the episode. Regardless, Vivalt and Glennerster agree that we should continue to run these kinds of studies, and today’s episode delves into the latest ideas in global health and development. Get this episode by subscribing: type '80,000 Hours' into your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in September 2017. Of all the people whose well-being we should care about, only a small fraction are alive today. The rest are members of future generations who are yet to exist. Whether they’ll be born into a world that is flourishing or disintegrating – and indeed, whether they will ever be born at all – is in large part up to us. As such, the welfare of future generations should be our number one moral concern. This conclusion holds true regardless of whether your moral framework is based on common sense, consequences, rules of ethical conduct, cooperating with others, virtuousness, keeping options open – or just a sense of wonder about the universe we find ourselves in. That’s the view of Dr Toby Ord, a philosophy Fellow at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the effective altruism community. In this episode Dr Ord makes the case that aiming for a positive long-term future is likely the best way to improve the world. Links to learn more, episode summary & full transcript Presenting the long-term value thesis by Ben Todd Why despite global progress, humanity is probably facing its most dangerous time ever by Ben Todd Making sense of long-term indirect effects by Rob Wiblin We then discuss common objections to long-termism, such as the idea that benefits to future generations are less valuable than those to people alive now, or that we can’t meaningfully benefit future generations beyond taking the usual steps to improve the present. Later the conversation turns to how individuals can and have changed the course of history, what could go wrong and why, and whether plans to colonise Mars would actually put humanity in a safer position than it is today. This episode goes deep into the most distinctive features of our advice. It’s likely the most in-depth discussion of how 80,000 Hours and the effective altruism community think about the long term future and why - and why we so often give it top priority. We cover: * Why is the long-term future of humanity such a big deal, and perhaps the most important issue for us to be thinking about? * Five arguments that future generations matter * How bad would it be if humanity went extinct or civilization collapses? * Why do people start saying such strange things when this topic comes up? * Are there any other reasons to prioritize thinking about the long-term future of humanity that you wanted to raise before we move to objections? * What is this school of thought properly called? And much more. Get this episode by subscribing: type '80,000 Hours' into your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in November 2017. Prof Philip Tetlock is a social science legend. Over forty years he has researched whose predictions we can trust, whose we can’t and why - and developed methods that allow all of us to be better at predicting the future. After the Iraq WMDs fiasco, the US intelligence services hired him to figure out how to ensure they’d never screw up that badly again. The result of that work – Superforecasting – was a media sensation in 2015. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript It described Tetlock’s Good Judgement Project, which found forecasting methods so accurate they beat everyone else in open competition, including thousands of people in the intelligence services with access to classified information. Today he’s working to develop the best forecasting process ever, by combining top human and machine intelligence in the Hybrid Forecasting Competition, which you can sign up and participate in. We start by describing his key findings, and then push to the edge of what is known about how to foresee the unforeseeable: * Should people who want to be right just adopt the views of experts rather than apply their own judgement? * Why are Berkeley undergrads worse forecasters than dart-throwing chimps? * Should I keep my political views secret, so it will be easier to change them later? * How can listeners contribute to his latest cutting-edge research? * What do we know about our accuracy at predicting low-probability high-impact disasters? * Does his research provide an intellectual basis for populist political movements? * Was the Iraq War caused by bad politics, or bad intelligence methods? * What can we learn about forecasting from the 2016 election? * Can experience help people avoid overconfidence and underconfidence? * When does an AI easily beat human judgement? * Could more accurate forecasting methods make the world more dangerous? * How much does demographic diversity line up with cognitive diversity? * What are the odds we’ll go to war with China? * Should we let prediction tournaments run most of the government? Read our problem profile on improving institutional decision-making here Get this episode by subscribing: type '80,000 Hours' into your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Please let us know if we've helped you: Fill out our annual impact survey Ever felt that you were so busy you spent all your time paralysed trying to figure out where to start, and couldn't get much done? Computer scientists have a term for this - thrashing - and it's a common reason our computers freeze up. The solution, for people as well as laptops, is to 'work dumber': pick something at random and finish it, without wasting time thinking about the bigger picture. Bestselling author Brian Christian studied computer science, and in the book Algorithms to Live By he's out to find the lessons it can offer for a better life. He investigates into when to quit your job, when to marry, the best way to sell your house, how long to spend on a difficult decision, and how much randomness to inject into your life. In each case computer science gives us a theoretically optimal solution, and in this episode we think hard about whether its models match our reality. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. One genre of problems Brian explores in his book are 'optimal stopping problems', the canonical example of which is ‘the secretary problem’. Imagine you're hiring a secretary, you receive *n* applicants, they show up in a random order, and you interview them one after another. You either have to hire that person on the spot and dismiss everybody else, or send them away and lose the option to hire them in future. It turns out most of life can be viewed this way - a series of unique opportunities you pass by that will never be available in exactly the same way again. So how do you attempt to hire the very best candidate in the pool? There's a risk that you stop before finding the best, and a risk that you set your standards too high and let the best candidate pass you by. Mathematicians of the mid-twentieth century produced an elegant optimal approach: spend exactly one over *e*, or approximately 37% of your search, just establishing a baseline without hiring anyone, no matter how promising they seem. Then immediately hire the next person who's better than anyone you've seen so far. It turns out that your odds of success in this scenario are also 37%. And the optimal strategy and the odds of success are identical regardless of the size of the pool. So as *n* goes to infinity you still want to follow this 37% rule, and you still have a 37% chance of success. Even if you interview a million people. But if you have the option to go back, say by apologising to the first applicant and begging them to come work with you, and you have a 50% chance of your apology being accepted, then the optimal explore percentage rises all the way to 61%. Today’s episode focuses on Brian’s book-length exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can and can't be applied to our everyday lives. We cover: * Computational kindness, and the best way to schedule meetings * How can we characterize a computational model of what people are actually doing, and is there a rigorous way to analyse just how good their instincts actually are? * What’s it like being a human confederate in the Turing test competition? * Is trying to detect fake social media accounts a losing battle? * The canonical explore/exploit problem in computer science: the multi-armed bandit * What’s the optimal way to buy or sell a house? * Why is information economics so important? * What kind of decisions should people randomize more in life? * How much time should we spend on prioritisation? Get this episode by subscribing: type '80,000 Hours' into your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

In this episode, Carolyn Petit joins me for a conversation about Jem Cohen's 2012 film "Museum Hours." Carolyn is managing editor at Feminist Frequency and is the co-host of the podcasts Feminist Frequency Radio and Cinemaball. "Museum Hours" is about Johann, a security guard at a Vienna art museum and how he meets Anne, a woman visiting the city to see her cousin who is in a coma. Over the course of Anne's stay, she and Johann become friends as he shows her around and offers emotional support in her time of need. In our discussion, Carolyn and I explore the power of art, the mystery of human connection, and much more. Consider making this podcast sustainable by supporting it on Patreon. Subscribe to the Her Head in Films Newsletter. Follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. Original artwork by Dhiyanah Hassan Full Show Notes: Follow Carolyn Petit on Twitter Listen to Feminist Frequency Radio Listen to Cinemaball Desert Hearts episode More about Kyss mig (aka Kiss Me, aka With Every Heartbeat) Blue is the Warmest Color episode The Art of Slow Cinema blog Poets mentioned: Mary Oliver, Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon American Experience episode on Walt Whitman Simon Schama's The Power of Art series The Lonely City by Olivia Laing John Berger's Ways of Seeing "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden

After dropping out of a machine learning PhD at Stanford, Daniel Ziegler needed to decide what to do next. He’d always enjoyed building stuff and wanted to shape the development of AI, so he thought a research engineering position at an org dedicated to aligning AI with human interests could be his best option. He decided to apply to OpenAI, and spent about 6 weeks preparing for the interview before landing the job. His PhD, by contrast, might have taken 6 years. Daniel thinks this highly accelerated career path may be possible for many others. On today’s episode Daniel is joined by Catherine Olsson, who has also worked at OpenAI, and left her computational neuroscience PhD to become a research engineer at Google Brain. She and Daniel share this piece of advice for those curious about this career path: just dive in. If you're trying to get good at something, just start doing that thing, and figure out that way what's necessary to be able to do it well. Catherine has even created a simple step-by-step guide for 80,000 Hours, to make it as easy as possible for others to copy her and Daniel's success. Please let us know how we've helped you: fill out our 2018 annual impact survey so that 80,000 Hours can continue to operate and grow. Blog post with links to learn more, a summary & full transcript. Daniel thinks the key for him was nailing the job interview. OpenAI needed him to be able to demonstrate the ability to do the kind of stuff he'd be working on day-to-day. So his approach was to take a list of 50 key deep reinforcement learning papers, read one or two a day, and pick a handful to actually reproduce. He spent a bunch of time coding in Python and TensorFlow, sometimes 12 hours a day, trying to debug and tune things until they were actually working. Daniel emphasizes that the most important thing was to practice *exactly* those things that he knew he needed to be able to do. His dedicated preparation also led to an offer from the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and so he had the opportunity to decide between two organisations focused on the global problem that most concerns him. Daniel’s path might seem unusual, but both he and Catherine expect it can be replicated by others. If they're right, it could greatly increase our ability to get new people into important ML roles in which they can make a difference, as quickly as possible. Catherine says that her move from OpenAI to an ML research team at Google now allows her to bring a different set of skills to the table. Technical AI safety is a multifaceted area of research, and the many sub-questions in areas such as reward learning, robustness, and interpretability all need to be answered to maximize the probability that AI development goes well for humanity. Today’s episode combines the expertise of two pioneers and is a key resource for anyone wanting to follow in their footsteps. We cover: * What are OpenAI and Google Brain doing? * Why work on AI? * Do you learn more on the job, or while doing a PhD? * Controversial issues within ML * Is replicating papers a good way of determining suitability? * What % of software developers could make similar transitions? * How in-demand are research engineers? * The development of Dota 2 bots * Do research scientists have more influence on the vision of an org? * Has learning more made you more or less worried about the future? Get this episode by subscribing: type '80,000 Hours' into your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

The barista gives you your coffee and change, and you walk away from the busy line. But you suddenly realise she gave you $1 less than she should have. Do you brush your way past the people now waiting, or just accept this as a dollar you’re never getting back? According to philosophy Professor Hilary Greaves - Director of Oxford University's Global Priorities Institute, which is hiring - this simple decision will completely change the long-term future by altering the identities of almost all future generations. How? Because by rushing back to the counter, you slightly change the timing of everything else people in line do during that day - including changing the timing of the interactions they have with everyone else. Eventually these causal links will reach someone who was going to conceive a child. By causing a child to be conceived a few fractions of a second earlier or later, you change the sperm that fertilizes their egg, resulting in a totally different person. So asking for that $1 has now made the difference between all the things that this actual child will do in their life, and all the things that the merely possible child - who didn't exist because of what you did - would have done if you decided not to worry about it. As that child's actions ripple out to everyone else who conceives down the generations, ultimately the entire human population will become different, all for the sake of your dollar. Will your choice cause a future Hitler to be born, or not to be born? Probably both! Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. Some find this concerning. The actual long term effects of your decisions are so unpredictable, it looks like you’re totally clueless about what's going to lead to the best outcomes. It might lead to decision paralysis - you won’t be able to take any action at all. Prof Greaves doesn’t share this concern for most real life decisions. If there’s no reasonable way to assign probabilities to far-future outcomes, then the possibility that you might make things better in completely unpredictable ways is more or less canceled out by equally likely opposite possibility. But, if instead we’re talking about a decision that involves highly-structured, systematic reasons for thinking there might be a general tendency of your action to make things better or worse -- for example if we increase economic growth -- Prof Greaves says that we don’t get to just ignore the unforeseeable effects. When there are complex arguments on both sides, it's unclear what probabilities you should assign to this or that claim. Yet, given its importance, whether you should take the action in question actually does depend on figuring out these numbers. So, what do we do? Today’s episode blends philosophy with an exploration of the mission and research agenda of the Global Priorities Institute: to develop the effective altruism movement within academia. We cover: * How controversial is the multiverse interpretation of quantum physics? * Given moral uncertainty, how should population ethics affect our real life decisions? * How should we think about archetypal decision theory problems? * What are the consequences of cluelessness for those who based their donation advice on GiveWell style recommendations? * How could reducing extinction risk be a good cause for risk-averse people? Get this episode by subscribing: type '80,000 Hours' into your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Paul Christiano is one of the smartest people I know. After our first session produced such great material, we decided to do a second recording, resulting in our longest interview so far. While challenging at times I can strongly recommend listening - Paul works on AI himself and has a very unusually thought through view of how it will change the world. This is now the top resource I'm going to refer people to if they're interested in positively shaping the development of AI, and want to understand the problem better. Even though I'm familiar with Paul's writing I felt I was learning a great deal and am now in a better position to make a difference to the world. A few of the topics we cover are: * Why Paul expects AI to transform the world gradually rather than explosively and what that would look like * Several concrete methods OpenAI is trying to develop to ensure AI systems do what we want even if they become more competent than us * Why AI systems will probably be granted legal and property rights * How an advanced AI that doesn't share human goals could still have moral value * Why machine learning might take over science research from humans before it can do most other tasks * Which decade we should expect human labour to become obsolete, and how this should affect your savings plan. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. Important new article: These are the world’s highest impact career paths according to our research Here's a situation we all regularly confront: you want to answer a difficult question, but aren't quite smart or informed enough to figure it out for yourself. The good news is you have access to experts who *are* smart enough to figure it out. The bad news is that they disagree. If given plenty of time - and enough arguments, counterarguments and counter-counter-arguments between all the experts - should you eventually be able to figure out which is correct? What if one expert were deliberately trying to mislead you? And should the expert with the correct view just tell the whole truth, or will competition force them to throw in persuasive lies in order to have a chance of winning you over? In other words: does 'debate', in principle, lead to truth? According to Paul Christiano - researcher at the machine learning research lab OpenAI and legendary thinker in the effective altruism and rationality communities - this question is of more than mere philosophical interest. That's because 'debate' is a promising method of keeping artificial intelligence aligned with human goals, even if it becomes much more intelligent and sophisticated than we are. It's a method OpenAI is actively trying to develop, because in the long-term it wants to train AI systems to make decisions that are too complex for any human to grasp, but without the risks that arise from a complete loss of human oversight. If AI-1 is free to choose any line of argument in order to attack the ideas of AI-2, and AI-2 always seems to successfully defend them, it suggests that every possible line of argument would have been unsuccessful. But does that mean that the ideas of AI-2 were actually right? It would be nice if the optimal strategy in debate were to be completely honest, provide good arguments, and respond to counterarguments in a valid way. But we don't know that's the case. Get this episode by subscribing: type '80,000 Hours' into your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Will people who think carefully about how to maximize welfare eventually converge on the same views? The effective altruism community has spent a lot of time over the past 10 years debating how best to increase happiness and reduce suffering, and gradually narrowed in on the world’s poorest people, all animals capable of suffering, and future generations. Yew-Kwang Ng, Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, was independently working on this exact question since the 70s. Many of his conclusions have ended up foreshadowing what is now conventional wisdom within effective altruism - though other views he holds remain controversial or little-known. For instance, he thinks we ought to explore increasing pleasure via direct brain stimulation, and that genetic engineering may be an important tool for increasing happiness in the future. His work has suggested that the welfare of most wild animals is on balance negative and he thinks that in the future this is a problem humanity might work to solve. Yet he thinks that greatly improved conditions for farm animals could eventually justify eating meat. He has spent most of his life advocating for the view that happiness, broadly construed, is the only intrinsically valuable thing. If it’s true that careful researchers will converge as Prof Ng believes, these ideas may prove as prescient as his other, now widely accepted, opinions. Link to our summary and appreciation of Kwang’s top publications and insights throughout a lifetime of research. Kwang has led an exceptional life. While in high school he was drawn to physics, mathematics, and philosophy, yet he chose to study economics because of his dream: to establish communism in an independent Malaya. But events in the Soviet Union and China, in addition to his burgeoning knowledge and academic appreciation of economics, would change his views about the practicability of communism. He would soon complete his journey from young revolutionary to academic economist, and eventually become a columnist writing in support of Deng Xiaoping’s Chinese economic reforms in the 80s. He got his PhD at Sydney University in 1971, and has since published over 250 refereed papers - covering economics, biology, politics, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. He's most well-known for his work in welfare economics, and proposed ‘welfare biology’ as a new field of study. In 2007, he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia, the highest award that the society bestows. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. In this episode we discuss how he developed some of his most unusual ideas and his fascinating life story, including: * Why Kwang believes that *’Happiness Is Absolute, Universal, Ultimate, Unidimensional, Cardinally Measurable and Interpersonally Comparable’* * What are the most pressing questions in economics? * Did Kwang have to worry about censorship from the Chinese government when promoting market economics, or concern for animal welfare? * Welfare economics and where Kwang thinks it went wrong Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

What’s the value of preventing the death of a 5-year-old child, compared to a 20-year-old, or an 80-year-old? The global health community has generally regarded the value as proportional to the number of health-adjusted life-years the person has remaining - but GiveWell, one of the world’s foremost charity evaluators, no longer uses that approach. They found that contrary to the years-remaining’ method, many of their staff actually value preventing the death of an adult more than preventing the death of a young child. However there’s plenty of disagreement: the team’s estimates of the relative value span a four-fold range. As James Snowden - a research consultant at GiveWell - explains in this episode, there’s no way around making these controversial judgement calls based on limited information. If you try to ignore a question like this, you just implicitly take an unreflective stand on it instead. And for each charity they look into there’s 1 or 2 dozen of these highly uncertain parameters they need to estimate. GiveWell has been trying to find better ways to make these decisions since its inception in 2007. Lives hang in the balance, so they want their staff to say what they really believe and bring their private knowledge to the table, rather than just defer to a imaginary consensus. Their strategy is a massive spreadsheet that lists dozens of things they need to estimate, and asking every staff member to give a figure and justification. Then once a year, the GiveWell team get together and try to identify what they really disagree about and think through what evidence it would take to change their minds. Full transcript, summary of the conversation and links to learn more. Often the people who have the greatest familiarity with a particular intervention are the ones who drive the decision, as others defer to them. But the group can also end up with very different figures, based on different prior beliefs about moral issues and how the world works. In that case then use the median of everyone’s best guess to make their key decisions. In making his estimate of the relative badness of dying at different ages, James specifically considered two factors: how many years of life do you lose, and how much interest do you have in those future years? Currently, James believes that the worst time for a person to die is around 8 years of age. We discuss his experiences with such calculations, as well as a range of other topics: * Why GiveWell’s recommendations have changed more than it looks. * What are the biggest research priorities for GiveWell at the moment? * How do you take into account the long-term knock-on effects from interventions? * If GiveWell's advice were going to end up being very different in a couple years' time, how might that happen? * Are there any charities that James thinks are really cost-effective which GiveWell hasn't funded yet? * How does domestic government spending in the developing world compare to effective charities? * What are the main challenges with policy related interventions? * How much time do you spend discovering new interventions? Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

"You don't need permission. You don't need to be allowed to do something that's not in your job description. If you think that it's gonna make your company or your organization more successful and more efficient, you can often just go and do it." How broken is the world? How inefficient is a typical organisation? Looking at Tara Mac Aulay’s life, the answer seems to be ‘very’. At 15 she took her first job - an entry-level position at a chain restaurant. Rather than accept her place, Tara took it on herself to massively improve the store’s shambolic staff scheduling and inventory management. After cutting staff costs 30% she was quickly promoted, and at 16 sent in to overhaul dozens of failing stores in a final effort to save them from closure. That’s just the first in a startling series of personal stories that take us to a hospital drug dispensary where pharmacists are wasting a third of their time, a chemotherapy ward in Bhutan that’s killing its patients rather than saving lives, and eventually the Centre for Effective Altruism, where Tara becomes CEO and leads it through start-up accelerator Y Combinator. In this episode Tara shows how the ability to do practical things, avoid major screw-ups, and design systems that scale, is both rare and precious. Full transcript, key quotes and links to learn more. People with an operations mindset spot failures others can't see and fix them before they bring an organisation down. This kind of resourcefulness can transform the world by making possible critical projects that would otherwise fall flat on their face. But as Tara's experience shows they need to figure out what actually motivates the authorities who often try to block their reforms. We explore how people with this skillset can do as much good as possible, what 80,000 Hours got wrong in our article 'Why operations management is one of the biggest bottlenecks in effective altruism’, as well as: * Tara’s biggest mistakes and how to deal with the delicate politics of organizational reform. * How a student can save a hospital millions with a simple spreadsheet model. * The sociology of Bhutan and how medicine in the developing world often makes things worse rather than better. * What most people misunderstand about operations, and how to tell if you have what it takes. * And finally, operations jobs people should consider applying for, such as those open now at the Centre for Effective Altruism. Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Today's episode is a cross-post of an interview I did with The Jolly Swagmen Podcast which came out this week. I recommend regular listeners skip to 24 minutes in to avoid hearing things they already know. Later in the episode I talk about my contrarian views, utilitarianism, how 80,000 Hours has changed and will change in the future, where I think EA is performing worst, how to use social media most effectively, and whether or not effective altruism is any sacrifice. Subscribe and get the episode by searching for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. Blog post of the episode to share, including a list of topics and links to learn more. "Most people want to help others with their career, but what’s the best way to do that? Become a doctor? A politician? Work at a non-profit? How can any of us figure out the best way to use our skills to improve the world? Rob Wiblin is the Director of Research at 80,000 Hours, an organisation founded in Oxford in 2011, which aims to answer just this question and help talented people find their highest-impact career path. He hosts a popular podcast on ‘the world’s most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them’. After seven years of research, the 80,000 Hours team recommends against becoming a teacher, or a doctor, or working at most non-profits. And they claim their research shows some common careers do 10 or 100x as much good as others. 80,000 Hours was one of the organisations that kicked off the effective altruism movement, was a Y Combinator-backed non-profit, and has already shifted over 80 million career hours through its advice. Joe caught up with Rob in Berkeley, California, to discuss how 80,000 Hours assesses which of the world’s problems are most pressing, how you can build career capital and succeed in any role, and why you could easily save more lives than a doctor - if you think carefully about your impact." Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

In 1991 Edwin Edwards won the Louisiana gubernatorial election. In 2001, he was found guilty of racketeering and received a 10 year invitation to Federal prison. The strange thing about that election? By 1991 Edwards was already notorious for his corruption. Actually, that’s not it. The truly strange thing is that Edwards was clearly the good guy in the race. How is that possible? His opponent was former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. How could Louisiana end up having to choose between a criminal and a Nazi sympathiser? It’s not like they lacked other options: the state’s moderate incumbent governor Buddy Roemer ran for re-election. Polling showed that Roemer was massively preferred to both the career criminal and the career bigot, and would easily win a head-to-head election against either. Unfortunately, in Louisiana every candidate from every party competes in the first round, and the top two then go on to a second - a so-called ‘jungle primary’. Vote splitting squeezed out the middle, and meant that Roemer was eliminated in the first round. Louisiana voters were left with only terrible options, in a run-off election mostly remembered for the proliferation of bumper stickers reading “Vote for the Crook. It’s Important.” We could look at this as a cultural problem, exposing widespread enthusiasm for bribery and racism that will take generations to overcome. But according to Aaron Hamlin, Executive Director of The Center for Election Science (CES), there’s a simple way to make sure we never have to elect someone hated by more than half the electorate: change how we vote. He advocates an alternative voting method called approval voting, in which you can vote for as many candidates as you want, not just one. That means that you can always support your honest favorite candidate, even when an election seems like a choice between the lesser of two evils. Full transcript, links to learn more, and summary of key points. If you'd like to meet Aaron he's doing events for CES in San Francisco, DC, Philadelphia, New York and Brooklyn over the next two weeks - RSVP here. While it might not seem sexy, this single change could transform politics. Approval voting is adored by voting researchers, who regard it as the best simple voting system available. Which do they regard as unquestionably the worst? First-past-the-post - precisely the disastrous system used and exported around the world by the US and UK. Aaron has a practical plan to spread approval voting across the US using ballot initiatives - and it just might be our best shot at making politics a bit less unreasonable. The Center for Election Science is a U.S. non-profit which aims to fix broken government by helping the world adopt smarter election systems. They recently received a $600,000 grant from the Open Philanthropy Project to scale up their efforts. Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Joseph Stalin had a life-extension program dedicated to making himself immortal. What if he had succeeded? According to our last guest, Bryan Caplan, there’s an 80% chance that Stalin would still be ruling Russia today. Today’s guest disagrees. Like Stalin he has eyes for his own immortality - including an insurance plan that will cover the cost of cryogenically freezing himself after he dies - and thinks the technology to achieve it might be around the corner. Fortunately for humanity though, that guest is probably one of the nicest people on the planet: Dr Anders Sandberg of Oxford University. Full transcript of the conversation, summary, and links to learn more. The potential availability of technology to delay or even stop ageing means this disagreement matters, so he has been trying to model what would really happen if both the very best and the very worst people in the world could live forever - among many other questions. Anders, who studies low-probability high-stakes risks and the impact of technological change at the Future of Humanity Institute, is the first guest to appear twice on the 80,000 Hours Podcast and might just be the most interesting academic at Oxford. His research interests include more or less everything, and bucking the academic trend towards intense specialization has earned him a devoted fan base. ***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.*** Last time we asked him why we don’t see aliens, and how to most efficiently colonise the universe. In today’s episode we ask about Anders’ other recent papers, including: * Is it worth the money to freeze your body after death in the hope of future revival, like Anders has done? * How much is our perception of the risk of nuclear war biased by the fact that we wouldn’t be alive to think about it had one happened? * If biomedical research lets us slow down ageing would culture stagnate under the crushing weight of centenarians? * What long-shot drugs can people take in their 70s to stave off death? * Can science extend human (waking) life by cutting our need to sleep? * How bad would it be if a solar flare took down the electricity grid? Could it happen? * If you’re a scientist and you discover something exciting but dangerous, when should you keep it a secret and when should you share it? * Will lifelike robots make us more inclined to dehumanise one another? Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books, including 'Off the Clock', 'I Know How She Does It', 'What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast', and '168 Hours'. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fortune. She is the co-host, with Sarah Hart-Unger, of the podcast Best of Both Worlds. She lives outside Philadelphia with her husband and four children, and blogs at LauraVanderkam.com. Aired May 23, 2018. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bryan Caplan’s claim in *The Case Against Education* is striking: education doesn’t teach people much, we use little of what we learn, and college is mostly about trying to seem smarter than other people - so the government should slash education funding. It’s a dismaying - almost profane - idea, and one people are inclined to dismiss out of hand. But having read the book, I have to admit that Bryan can point to a surprising amount of evidence in his favour. After all, imagine this dilemma: you can have either a Princeton education without a diploma, or a Princeton diploma without an education. Which is the bigger benefit of college - learning or convincing people you’re smart? It’s not so easy to say. For this interview, I searched for the best counterarguments I could find and challenged Bryan on what seem like his weakest or most controversial claims. Wouldn’t defunding education be especially bad for capable but low income students? If you reduced funding for education, wouldn’t that just lower prices, and not actually change the number of years people study? Is it really true that students who drop out in their final year of college earn about the same as people who never go to college at all? What about studies that show that extra years of education boost IQ scores? And surely the early years of primary school, when you learn reading and arithmetic, *are* useful even if college isn’t. I then get his advice on who should study, what they should study, and where they should study, if he’s right that college is mostly about separating yourself from the pack. Full transcript, links to learn more, and summary of key points. We then venture into some of Bryan’s other unorthodox views - like that immigration restrictions are a human rights violation, or that we should worry about the risk of global totalitarianism. Bryan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a blogger at *EconLog*. He is also the author of *Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think*, and *The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies*. 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. In this lengthy interview, Rob and Bryan cover: * How worried should we be about China’s new citizen ranking system as a means of authoritarian rule? * How will advances in surveillance technology impact a government’s ability to rule absolutely? * Does more global coordination make us safer, or more at risk? * Should the push for open borders be a major cause area for effective altruism? * Are immigration restrictions a human rights violation? * Why aren’t libertarian-minded people more focused on modern slavery? * Should altruists work on criminal justice reform or reducing land use regulations? * What’s the greatest art form: opera, or Nicki Minaj? * What are the main implications of Bryan’s thesis for society? * Is elementary school more valuable than university? * What does Bryan think are the best arguments against his view? * Do years of education affect political affiliation? * How do people really improve themselves and their circumstances? * Who should and who shouldn’t do a masters or PhD? * The value of teaching foreign languages in school * Are there some skills people can develop that have wide applicability? Get this episode by subscribing: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

The debate around the impacts of artificial intelligence often centres on ‘superintelligence’ - a general intellect that is much smarter than the best humans, in practically every field. But according to Allan Dafoe - Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University - even if we stopped at today's AI technology and simply collected more data, built more sensors, and added more computing capacity, extreme systemic risks could emerge, including: * Mass labor displacement, unemployment, and inequality; * The rise of a more oligopolistic global market structure, potentially moving us away from our liberal economic world order; * Imagery intelligence and other mechanisms for revealing most of the ballistic missile-carrying submarines that countries rely on to be able to respond to nuclear attack; * Ubiquitous sensors and algorithms that can identify individuals through face recognition, leading to universal surveillance; * Autonomous weapons with an independent chain of command, making it easier for authoritarian regimes to violently suppress their citizens. Allan is Co-Director of the Governance of AI Program, at the Future of Humanity Institute within Oxford University. His goals have been to understand the causes of world peace and stability, which in the past has meant studying why war has declined, the role of reputation and honor as drivers of war, and the motivations behind provocation in crisis escalation. Full transcript, links to learn more, and summary of key points. His current focus is helping humanity safely navigate the invention of advanced artificial intelligence. I ask Allan: * What are the distinctive characteristics of artificial intelligence from a political or international governance point of view? * Is Allan’s work just a continuation of previous research on transformative technologies, like nuclear weapons? * How can AI be well-governed? * How should we think about the idea of arms races between companies or countries? * What would you say to people skeptical about the importance of this topic? * How urgently do we need to figure out solutions to these problems? When can we expect artificial intelligence to be dramatically better than today? * What’s the most urgent questions to deal with in this field? * What can people do if they want to get into the field? * Is there anything unusual that people can look for in themselves to tell if they're a good fit to do this kind of research? Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

If we have a study on the impact of a social program in a particular place and time, how confident can we be that we’ll get a similar result if we study the same program again somewhere else? Dr Eva Vivalt is a lecturer in the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University. She compiled a huge database of impact evaluations in global development - including 15,024 estimates from 635 papers across 20 types of intervention - to help answer this question. Her finding: not confident at all. The typical study result differs from the average effect found in similar studies so far by almost 100%. That is to say, if all existing studies of a particular education program find that it improves test scores by 10 points - the next result is as likely to be negative or greater than 20 points, as it is to be between 0-20 points. She also observed that results from smaller studies done with an NGO - often pilot studies - were more likely to look promising. But when governments tried to implement scaled-up versions of those programs, their performance would drop considerably. For researchers hoping to figure out what works and then take those programs global, these failures of generalizability and ‘external validity’ should be disconcerting. Is ‘evidence-based development’ writing a cheque its methodology can’t cash? Should this make us invest less in empirical research, or more to get actually reliable results? Or as some critics say, is interest in impact evaluation distracting us from more important issues, like national or macroeconomic reforms that can’t be easily trialled? We discuss this as well as Eva’s other research, including Y Combinator’s basic income study where she is a principal investigator. Full transcript, links to related papers, and highlights from the conversation. Links mentioned at the start of the show: * 80,000 Hours Job Board * 2018 Effective Altruism Survey **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.** Questions include: * What is the YC basic income study looking at, and what motivates it? * How do we get people to accept clean meat? * How much can we generalize from impact evaluations? * How much can we generalize from studies in development economics? * Should we be running more or fewer studies? * Do most social programs work or not? * The academic incentives around data aggregation * How much can impact evaluations inform policy decisions? * How often do people change their minds? * Do policy makers update too much or too little in the real world? * How good or bad are the predictions of experts? How does that change when looking at individuals versus the average of a group? * How often should we believe positive results? * What’s the state of development economics? * Eva’s thoughts on our article on social interventions * How much can we really learn from being empirical? * How much should we really value RCTs? * Is an Economics PhD overrated or underrated? Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Part 2 out now: #33 - Dr Anders Sandberg on what if we ended ageing, solar flares & the annual risk of nuclear war The universe is so vast, yet we don’t see any alien civilizations. If they exist, where are they? Oxford University’s Anders Sandberg has an original answer: they’re ‘sleeping’, and for a very compelling reason. Because of the thermodynamics of computation, the colder it gets, the more computations you can do. The universe is getting exponentially colder as it expands, and as the universe cools, one Joule of energy gets worth more and more. If they wait long enough this can become a 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x gain. So, if a civilization wanted to maximize its ability to perform computations – its best option might be to lie in wait for trillions of years. Why would a civilization want to maximise the number of computations they can do? Because conscious minds are probably generated by computation, so doing twice as many computations is like living twice as long, in subjective time. Waiting will allow them to generate vastly more science, art, pleasure, or almost anything else they are likely to care about. Full transcript, related links, and key quotes. But there’s no point waking up to find another civilization has taken over and used up the universe’s energy. So they’ll need some sort of monitoring to protect their resources from potential competitors like us. It’s plausible that this civilization would want to keep the universe’s matter concentrated, so that each part would be in reach of the other parts, even after the universe’s expansion. But that would mean changing the trajectory of galaxies during this dormant period. That we don’t see anything like that makes it more likely that these aliens have local outposts throughout the universe, and we wouldn’t notice them until we broke their rules. But breaking their rules might be our last action as a species. This ‘aestivation hypothesis’ is the invention of Dr Sandberg, a Senior Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, where he looks at low-probability, high-impact risks, predicting the capabilities of future technologies and very long-range futures for humanity. In this incredibly fun conversation we cover this and other possible explanations to the Fermi paradox, as well as questions like: * Should we want optimists or pessimists working on our most important problems? * How should we reason about low probability, high impact risks? * Would a galactic civilization want to stop the stars from burning? * What would be the best strategy for exploring and colonising the universe? * How can you stay coordinated when you’re spread across different galaxies? * What should humanity decide to do with its future? Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

A researcher is working on creating a new virus – one more dangerous than any that exist naturally. They believe they’re being as careful as possible. After all, if things go wrong, their own life and that of their colleagues will be in danger. But if an accident is capable of triggering a global pandemic – hundreds of millions of lives might be at risk. How much additional care will the researcher actually take in the face of such a staggering death toll? In a new paper Dr Owen Cotton-Barratt, a Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, argues it’s impossible to expect them to make the correct adjustments. If they have an accident that kills 5 people – they’ll feel extremely bad. If they have an accident that kills 500 million people, they’ll feel even worse – but there’s no way for them to feel 100 million times worse. The brain simply doesn’t work that way. So, rather than relying on individual judgement, we could create a system that would lead to better outcomes: research liability insurance. Links to learn more, summary and full transcript. Once an insurer assesses how much damage a particular project is expected to cause and with what likelihood – in order to proceed, the researcher would need to take out insurance against the predicted risk. In return, the insurer promises that they’ll pay out – potentially tens of billions of dollars – if things go really badly. This would force researchers think very carefully about the cost and benefits of their work – and incentivize the insurer to demand safety standards on a level that individual researchers can’t be expected to impose themselves. ***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.*** Owen is currently hiring for a selective, two-year research scholars programme at Oxford. In this wide-ranging conversation Owen and I also discuss: * Are academics wrong to value personal interest in a topic over its importance? * What fraction of research has very large potential negative consequences? * Why do we have such different reactions to situations where the risks are known and unknown? * The downsides of waiting for tenure to do the work you think is most important. * What are the benefits of specifying a vague problem like ‘make AI safe’ more clearly? * How should people balance the trade-offs between having a successful career and doing the most important work? * Are there any blind alleys we’ve gone down when thinking about AI safety? * Why did Owen give to an organisation whose research agenda he is skeptical of? Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

How about this for a movie idea: a main character has to prevent a new contagious strain of Ebola spreading around the world. She’s the best of the best. So good in fact, that her work on early detection systems contains the strain at its source. Ten minutes into the movie, we see the results of her work – nothing happens. Life goes on as usual. She continues to be amazingly competent, and nothing continues to go wrong. Fade to black. Roll credits. If your job is to prevent catastrophes, success is when nobody has to pay attention to you. But without regular disasters to remind authorities why they hired you in the first place, they can’t tell if you’re actually achieving anything. And when budgets come under pressure you may find that success condemns you to the chopping block. Dr Tom Inglesby, Director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, worries this may be about to happen to the scientists working on the ‘Global Health Security Agenda’. In 2014 Ebola showed the world why we have to detect and contain new diseases before they spread, and that when it comes to contagious diseases the nations of the world sink or swim together. Fifty countries decided to work together to make sure all their health systems were up to the challenge. Back then Congress provided 5 years’ funding to help some of the world’s poorest countries build the basic health security infrastructure necessary to control pathogens before they could reach the US. Links to learn more, job opportunities, and full transcript. But with Ebola fading from public memory and no recent tragedies to terrify us, Congress may not renew that funding and the project could fall apart. (Learn more about how you can help: http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/protect-us-investments-global-health-security/ ) But there are positive signs as well - the center Inglesby leads recently received a $16 million grant from the Open Philanthropy Project to further their work preventing global catastrophes. It also runs the [Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Fellowship](http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/emergingbioleaders/) to train the next generation of biosecurity experts for the US government. And Inglesby regularly testifies to Congress on the threats we all face and how to address them. In this in-depth interview we try to provide concrete guidance for listeners who want to to pursue a career in health security. Some of the topics we cover include: * Should more people in medicine work on security? * What are the top jobs for people who want to improve health security and how do they work towards getting them? * What people can do to protect funding for the Global Health Security Agenda. * Should we be more concerned about natural or human caused pandemics? Which is more neglected? * Should we be allocating more attention and resources to global catastrophic risk scenarios? * Why are senior figures reluctant to prioritize one project or area at the expense of another? * What does Tom think about the idea that in the medium term, human-caused pandemics will pose a far greater risk than natural pandemics, and so we should focus on specific counter-measures? * Are the main risks and solutions understood, and it’s just a matter of implementation? Or is the principal task to identify and understand them? * How is the current US government performing in these areas? * Which agencies are empowered to think about low probability high magnitude events? And more... Get this episode by subscribing: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

First, decide on the type of animal. Next, pick the cell type. Then take a small, painless biopsy, and put the cells in a solution that makes them feel like they’re still in the body. Once the cells are in this comfortable state, they'll proliferate. One cell becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight, and so on. Continue until you have enough cells to make a burger, a nugget, a sausage, or a piece of bacon, then concentrate them until they bind into solid meat. It's all surprisingly straightforward in principle according to Marie Gibbons​, a research fellow with The Good Food Institute, who has been researching how to improve this process at Harvard Medical School. We might even see clean meat sold commercially within a year. The real technical challenge is developing large bioreactors and cheap solutions so that we can make huge volumes and drive down costs. This interview covers the science and technology involved at each stage of clean meat production, the challenges and opportunities that face cutting-edge researchers like Marie, and how you could become one of them. Full transcript, key points, and links to learn more. Marie’s research focuses on turkey cells. But as she explains, with clean meat the possibilities extend well beyond those of traditional meat. Chicken, cow, pig, but also panda - and even dinosaurs could be on the menus of the future. Today’s episode is hosted by Natalie Cargill, a barrister in London with a background in animal advocacy. Natalie and Marie also discuss: * Why Marie switched from being a vet to developing clean meat * For people who want to dedicate themselves to animal welfare, how does working in clean meat fare compared to other career options? How can people get jobs in the area? * How did this become an established field? * How important is the choice of animal species and cell type in this process? * What are the biggest problems with current production methods? * Is this kind of research best done in an academic setting, a commercial setting, or a balance between the two? * How easy will it be to get consumer acceptance? * How valuable would extra funding be for cellular agriculture? * Can we use genetic modification to speed up the process? * Is it reasonable to be sceptical of the possibility of clean meat becoming financially competitive with traditional meat any time in the near future? Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: search for '80,000 Hours' in your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.

Kaitlyn and Rob practice their eye kegels. Listen to learn all about: Holy Family Day, Canadian time travelers, '127 Hours' as a verb, lip care, Rob's ugly laugh and a Kaitlyn apology, saying 'veritable' instead of 'verifiable', little tiny people controlling you, Fembots, lip optimization, and God's chosen lipsticks. Today's WikiHow article: How to Bite Your Lip Seductively How to Not is a comedy podcast where Kaitlyn Alexander and Rob Moden read very real how-to articles to learn how to lead normal, human lives. Follow on Twitter and suggest a WikiHow article: @howtonotshow  WikiHow Randomizer button: CLICK

Armond & Doc return to talk about TDE going on tour, Justin Timberlake's new single "Supplies", and Drake's new EP/maxi-single 'Scary Hours' as only CRS can. Plus Jason Kidd is fired, 'Supermarket Sweep' strategy, and a lot more.

Taiwan's Chinese Culture University says the phenomenon breaks the record held by the UK. More >> http://ift.tt/2jcLBkt

In this episode of DISCOVERY DEBRIEF, panelists Chris Clow (Movies.com, Comics on Consoles) and Rachael Clow (Biology PhD candidate) go solo to discuss the very first step that DISCOVERY makes into the expanded universe of the franchise: novel STAR TREK: DISCOVERY - DESPERATE HOURS, by author David Mack! Be sure to listen to our in-depth discussion including insight on the book's use of SPOCK, as well as other connections the story makes with characters featured in THE ORIGINAL SERIES' original pilot episode, "THE CAGE." Plus, more details on what's to follow as we continue to endure the mid-season lull! Music by Bensound.com. STAR TREK trademarks and related elements are owned by CBS Studios Inc., and are used expressly under "fair use" guidelines.

The multi-talented, enigmatic artist reflects on juggling filmmaking with college, graduate and Ph.D studies; how an epiphany during the making of 'Pineapple Express' made possible his Oscar-nominated performance in '127 Hours'; and why he's drawn to eccentrics like the one he played in 'Spring Breakers' and Tommy Wiseau. But first: Will Arnett, the popular comedy actor, joins Scott to talk about Louis C.K.'s fall from grace, voiceover acting, 'Arrested Development' and the animated feature 'The LEGO Batman Movie,' in which he voices Bruce Wayne/Batman. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg, recorded and produced by Matthew Whitehurst.

On episode #5 of Fit For Life Radio, the coaches are in Austin, Texas and start to fall apart in the 'after hours'. Luckily they get in a great discussion on their biggest struggle with wanting to workout at all. Also, Coach Ben geeks out on a question about psoas tightness.  The bourbon and vodka continue to flow and the show slowly morphs to pure entertainment and deep discussion... :) Topics include: -White bread & BBQ -When waiting in line for BBQ goes wrong -Stories of when we didn't want to workout -What to do to avoid psoas tightness -Kill, Marry, Fork... -3-6-Mafia interlude -Thoughts on The Office & Seinfeld  -Ben's song of the week

On episode #4 of Fit For Life Radio, the coaches are in Austin, Texas and decided to go in on an 'After-Hours' edition. With the help of some alcoholic beverages for extra clarity, they will be addressing hot topics.  The coaches will cover intermittent fasting, quality of repetitions,  training vs straining, and more.  Topics include: -What is the best middle name for William -Thoughts on Texas brisket and banana pudding -Podcasting and sipping beverage choices -Thoughts on intermittent fasting -Each coaches personal experience with intermittent fasting -The importance of QUALITY repetitions -Why slower can be better -The important difference of training vs straining -Tips for balance in your training -Why you need to know what your training for -The specific things the coaches train for -Find out if Coach Will and Ben can keep up with Gary on hikes.  -Bens song of the week

  0:00 - Hello, it's July now 2:00 - "Spider-Man: Homecoming" review 16:40 - "The Big Sick" review 26:40 - "The Little Hours" review 31:00 - "The House" review (Snider only) 34:40 - Summer Box Office Challenge update 39:50 - Movie of the Month discussion: "sex, lies & videotape" (1989) 49:15 - Your next MOTM is "Dangerous Liaisons" (1988), which we'll discuss on the 8/4 show 50:15 - There aren't any good DVDs this week; recap and good day   REVIEWS: Spider-Man: Homecoming: B+ 8/10 (BS-approved!) The Big Sick: B+ 8/10 (BS-approved! The Little Hours: B 7/10 The House: C+ n/a

Hello! - another year another mix - this time 3 hours long with alot of new tracks and some old fav's remixed I seem to be receiving some more promo's, which is good = more mixes to follow :) Promos/Lists: Send music and invites to play@tomtaylor.dj Enjoy! :) @tom_taylor - tomtaylor.dj - twitter.com/tom_taylor - tommytaylor.co.uk

What it dew Trillions! Back again with episode 65 of the Truth Be Told Podcast from Trillmatic.com hosted by Riffa & Bigg UU. Thanks for supporting the podcast! Be sure to leave a 5 star review!  In this episode, we start off by explaining what we're going to be doing more of on the podcast and Bigg UU explains why he's a fan of Willie The Kid. Be sure to check out Willie The Kid's latest single '24 Hours' featuring Roc Marciano & V Don here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiYmEggHCUI The Game has announced a new album called 'Westside Story' and what would a West Coast album be without a feature from Kendrick Lamar, which was announced at the same time. So for discussion, we talked about whether or not The Game can hold his own, and drop a successful album with any features. We also discuss if The Game has reached legendary status. Bigg UU also explains why he thinks The Game has so many features on his albums.  Jay Z recently signed a new deal with popular concert promotion company Live Nation for $200 million for the next 10 years. That would put Jay Z at the old age of 57 years old. We talk about ageism in Hip Hop and what is considered old in this day and age.  YG has just created the Tip Drill of 2017 when he dropped his new official uncut video. We talk about the video and if it is better than Nelly's 'Tip Drill' video. Please put your kids to bed before playing the visual. We talk about the impact Nelly had with his video and how it's not the same for YG. Just so you know, we appreciate the ignorance. Watch both versions of YG's videos below: Pop It, Shake It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BPZoAspZhE Pop It, Shake It (Uncut) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ2KSPz4iSw BET Awards have released the nominations and the most interesting category was the female Rap category. With Nicki Minaj, Remy Ma, Young MA, Missy Elliott and Cardi B, is the female rap genre becoming more competitive? We discuss who may come out on top with the crown this year. We also explain why wack rappers are winning on the internet today and how you hating on them increases their status.  50 Cent, Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover and Tyler the Creator are bossing the TV landscape with 50 Cent's show 'POWER' the 2nd watched show on premium cable behind Game of Thrones, Donald Glover doing a Deadpool cartoon and Tyler getting a VICELAND show.  We also talk about The Clipse' most important track of all time with 'Grindin' and how it's been around for so long. We talked about Pharrell changing the game.  Need a website and hosting for your podcast? Get it all in one for under $100 a month. Go here: http://www.trillmatic.com/podweb We're looking for guest bloggers. Find out more here:  http://www.trillmatic.com/were-looking-for-guest-bloggers-writers/ Subscribe to our channel on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2kqGzzP Give us $1 on Patreon! http://www.trillmatic.com/patreon PODCAST LINKS Website: http://www.trillmatic.com/truthbetold iTunes: https://itun.es/i67d6Qk Google Play: https://goo.gl/NUYr7XStitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=92400 Libsyn: http://trillmatic.libsyn.com/SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/beentrillmatic FOLLOW US Website: http://www.trillmatic.comMixtapes: http://www.trillmatic.com/mixtapes Audio: http://www.trillmatic.com/audio Videos: http://www.trillmatic.com/videos Riffa on Twitter - http://twitter.com/Riffa254Bigg UU on Twitter - http://twitter.com/BiggUU254 Instagram: http://instagram.com/beentrillmatic Twitter: http://twitter.com/beentrillmatic Facebook: http://facebook.com/beentrillmatic Tumblr: http://realtrillmatic.tumblr.com Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/beentrillmatic

This week… James discovers Man Fudge Pants, Rich gets showered with Black Power, and Fudge sets up his own branch of the Gary Hooper Fan Club. We report back from the Steering Group meeting this week, review the Newcastle victory, and look ahead to a tricky Easter weekend with games against Cardiff and QPR

Dvae joins Tom to discuss Cee Major's superb '10,000 Hours'.    Download the project here: https://ceemajorofficial.bandcamp.com/album/10000-hours   For Patreon exclusive episodes, full BRR interviews weeks before release + tons of other BRR content, check our donation page and help out the show: https://www.patreon.com/battlerapresume   @battlerapresume // battlerapresume@gmail.com Hosted by @tomkweipoet Theme by Alex Cottrell (http://alex-cottrell.com/)Logo by Danny O'Gorman (https://www.behance.net/Danogormandesign )Thumbnail design by Nathan Jones

Enjoy Warpaint in anticipation of their upcoming 2017 album release for which I CANNOT WAIT, except I have to, so I am semi patiently. This is a band I wanna see main stage this summer and I hope there's a festival hosting them at that level because they would be on the cutting edge of what's happening on the indie circuit.  Lead Singer Luke Roes, Bassist Chris Levesque, and Drummer Thomas Perquin make up Ivory Hours, listen in as I sit down with Luke. https://ivoryhours.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/IvoryHours    

This Week, The Finest Hours hits theaters and the one things that both lifts and sinks this movie. The biblical connection in The Finest Hours and There's a new Jungle Book Trailer. For the week of February 1, this is episode 67 of the Disney Movie Review Show notes can be found here: http://www.thedisneymoviereview.com/67 THANK YOU! Thank you for listening! There are a lot of ways you can spend your time, but you chose to spend time with me and I am very grateful for that. If you enjoyed today's show, please share it with your friends on your preferred social media site. You can support The Disney Movie Review by buying a shirt on www.distshirts.com. Or better yet, submit a design on the site and we will split the profit with you 50/50. It's the easiest way to make sure I can keep delivering high quality content every week. If you've listened to fewer than five episodes, welcome to Disney Movie Nation! If you like what you hear, visit the website to sign-up for our email list to get more Disney Movie News. If you aren't a fan, that's okay too. Find another podcast you love and support the content you love! Contact me: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DisneyMovieReview Twitter: @DSNYMovieReview Buy a shirt: www.distshirts.com

We’re joined by John Launius from Vidzu Media and formerly of The John & Kane Show and 105.7 The Point’s Joe & John Show. We turn in our most concise box office report effort…also, Joe is out this week. We’ll let you draw your own conclusions. Also, Star Wars is the box office champ no more, why 'The Revenant' is making money, why '13 Hours' isn’t, and just how in the hell did 'Avatar' end up making almost $3 billion? It’s Reel Spoilers 152: '13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi' Box Office Report. You’ve been warned. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we interview Michael Tougias , author of The Finest Hours. He tells us about the real heroes behind The Finest Hours, What it takes to survive in situations where all hope seems lost, and what he thinks about Disney's effort to bring to life the greatest small boat rescue in U.S. Coastguard history. For the week of January 18 this is episode 64 of the Disney Movie Review.   THANK YOU! Thank you for listening! There are a lot of ways you can spend your time, but you chose to spend time with me and I am very grateful for that. If you enjoyed today's show, please share it with your friends on your preferred social media site.   You can support The Disney Movie Review by buying a shirt on www.distshirts.com. Or better yet, submit a design on the site and we will split the profit with you 50/50. It's the easiest way to make sure I can keep delivering high quality content every week.   If you've listened to fewer than five episodes, welcome to Disney Movie Nation! If you like what you hear, visit the website to sign-up for our email list to get more Disney Movie News. If you aren't a fan, that's okay too. Find another podcast you love and support the content you love!   Contact me: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DisneyMovieReview Twitter: @DSNYMovieReview Buy a shirt: www.distshirts.com

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Tak Lo is Director at Techstars, helping entrepreneurs do more faster - on both sides of the Atlantic through Techstars London and Techstars NYC. Tak is also Founder at Travelst and Frontlyst. Prior to his road into entrepreneurship, Tak was a Consultant at Deloitte, Booz Allen Hamilton and was a specialist in the US ARMY. In today's incredible episode Tak shares his lessons from his own startup experience, the required reading for all entrepreneurs and of course when thinking TechStars, how can we not discuss the man himself, Brad Feld, and how Tak has adopted Brad's use of open office hours. Items Mentioned in Today's Show: Must Read Tech Blogs: Fred Wilson, Brad Feld Thoughts, Tomas Tunguz: Redpoint Capital, Christopher Janz: Point Nine Capital   Must Read Books: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Adam Grant: Give and Take, Peter Thiel: Zero to One, Ben Horowitz: The Hard Thing About Hard Things Must Have Apps: Buffer: Save Time On Your Social Media, Feedly: The Stories You Need To Keep Ahead Networking Tools: Silicon Drinkabout, Meetup  Team of Rivals Adam Grant: Give and Take Peter Thiel: Zero to One Ben Horowitz: The Hard Thing About Hard Things In Today's Episode You Will Learn: How and why Tak made the transition first from the army to a career in consulting and then what made Tak take the entrepreneurial route and start his own company? Tak is renknowned for the amazing service and contribution he brings to every startup. What services does Tak bring and what does Tak feel all entrepreneurs and advisors must add? Does Tak back singular founders, or does he prefer a founding team? Tak is a Specialist on Leadership, for founders wanting to gain or develop their leadership skills, what can founders do, read or learn to further their leadership skills? For individuals contemplating moving into the tech world, how do they know which is the right job? Are there any immediate aspects they must look for or be wary of? What are the biggest misconceptions of the tech industry? How can people find out about networking events  What sector Tak believes is the next to be disrupted and why? What is the premise behind Brad Feld's 'Open Office Hours'? Why has Tak decided to adopt this tactic? What does Tak hope to gain from it? How is it going so far? We then finish today's episode with a lightning round, hearing Tak's thoughts on the greatest leader and why, the future of the asian tech market, his favourite book and why and his most recent investment and why he said yes? Follow Harry, Tak, The Twenty Minute VC

R&S / Apollo act Cloud Boat talk about key tracks from their recent album 'Book of Hours', and play some music they like.

Empty labour - international statistics suggest that the average time an employee spends engaged in private activities is 1 and a half to 2 hours a day. Laurie Taylor talks to Roland Paulsen, a Swedish sociologist, who interviewed 43 workers who spent around half their working hours on 'empty labour'. Are such employees merely 'slacking' or are such little' subversions' acts of resistance to the way work appropriates so much of our time? They're joined by the writer, Michael Bywater. By contrast, Jane Sturges, discusses her research into professionals caught up, both reluctantly as well as willingly, in a 'long hours' work culture. Producer: Jayne Egerton.