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    Feb 16

    Just so you know, we’re mailing anyone who joins our newsletter a free book about impactful careers. You can choose between The Precipice, Doing Good Better or the 80,000 Hours Career Guide. Yes this is an actual physical copy. Get it here:

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    Mar 25

    Which career paths are highest-impact? We've updated our top 10 most recommended list. A 🧵 about what they're based on, how they've changed & the 25 other paths we recommend. /1

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    Mar 25

    Next week for The 80,000 Hours Podcast I'll be interviewing Nova Das Sarma. She works to improve computer and info security at , an AI safety and research company. She's also helping to get compute for alignment work: What should I ask her?

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    Mar 23

    Great interview with – a strategic consultant for New Incentives – on . Listen for some great insights and much-needed myth busting!

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    Mar 23

    On , co-founder Karen Levy discusses randomized evaluations, collaboration with governments, and scaling efforts around the world. Listen below to a fascinating discussion:

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    Mar 23

    On the podcast, & have an amazing conversation about governments, incentives, scaling & deworming millions. And a call from Michael Kremer, which led to her founding IPA's Kenya office

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    Mar 21

    3 overrated ideas in development: 1. Sustainable funding models = trying to get someone else to pay for your program 2. Participation = wasting poor people's time 3. Holism = complexity that makes evaluation impossible Inspired by these spicy takes:

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    Mar 21

    " tells us that in the field, ‘participatory’ usually means that recipients are expected to be involved in planning and delivering services themselves... something people in rich countries rarely want for themselves."

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    Mar 22

    We should all be worried about future power plays between the US and China. We should be even more worried when they hold humanity’s entire future in their hands. Here’s a new deep dive: CHINA AND AI SAFETY 🧵👇 1/11

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  10. Mar 22

    This is an area where you need to know what you’re doing, or you risk causing harm. So if you’re interested in working on China and AI, contact us and we may be able to put you in touch with a specialist advisor. 7/7

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  11. Mar 22

    This isn’t about competition (race dynamics could be really bad). This is about finding ways to mitigate risks to us all. 6/7

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  12. Mar 22

    Other options include: - researching Chinese AI governance at top AI labs - being a China analyst at top western think tanks like 5/7

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  13. Mar 22

    You don’t need Chinese citizenship to: - research China at ,, , - help western labs work on open problems in cooperative AI - translate AI and AI safety documents between Chinese and English 4/7

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  14. Mar 22

    If you have Chinese citizenship or heritage you could: - work toward safety within companies (e.g. Baidu, Tencent, Huawei) - work on safety in academia (e.g. Tsinghua, Shanghai Jiaotong, Beijing Academy of AI) - work for think tanks in China on AI safety and governance 3/7

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  15. Mar 22

    Working on this isn’t straightforward. We need people with good language and networking skills. But we also need people with good judgement, especially to make sure you’re not doing harm. 2/7

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  16. Mar 22

    Ensuring that the rise of AI is safe will need global coordination – including between the West and China. This is a difficult problem. We can imagine many ways of working on it that make things worse, not better. See our 20-page report: 1/7

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  17. Mar 21

    We've updated our top recommended career paths on our site, which feels like a pretty big deal to us. Read them all at (Also hi, we're on TikTok)

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    Mar 20

    Listening to Luiza Roriguez on . How will people live after the apocalypse. I'm convinced that nerdy engineers are underrated. "Who knows how to run a power station?" Well my group chat did discuss it at length when Glen wanted to build one.

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    Mar 18

    . has updated their list of high-impact careers. They also list 30 other recommended paths, in addition the these top 10.

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    Mar 16

    Next week for The Podcast I'll be interviewing Stanford macro-historian Ian Morris. He's the author of "Why the West Rules—For Now", "War! What is it Good For?" and "Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve". What should I ask him?

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    Mar 16

    really interesting podcast on escalation, nuclear weapons, and the situation in Ukraine, with the RAND Corp scholar

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