Hacker News
- Stop Reading the News https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/bryan-caplan-stop-reading-the-news/ 3 comments
- What are the most pressing world problems? https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/ 2 comments
- You have 80k hours in your career https://80000hours.org/ 5 comments
- The highest-impact career paths 80,000 hours research has identified so far https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/ 2 comments
- Anonymous advice: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want your name on? https://80000hours.org/2019/10/anonymous-advice-careers/ 14 comments
- Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/cal-newport-industrial-revolution-for-office-work/ 59 comments
- Ezra Klein on aligning journalism, politics, and what matters most https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/ezra-klein-journalism-most-important-topics/ 3 comments
- Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse https://80000hours.org/articles/accidental-harm/ 2 comments
- Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young https://80000hours.org/2019/04/career-advice-i-wish-id-been-given-when-i-was-young/ 218 comments
- Why don’t we see aliens? This Oxford prof suspects they’re 'sleeping'. Heres why https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/anders-sandberg-fermi-paradox/ 2 comments
- Investigating a ten-year-old estimate that “most social programmes don’t work” https://80000hours.org/articles/effective-social-program/ 82 comments
- Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job https://80000hours.org/career-guide/how-to-be-successful/ 246 comments
- Show HN: Why the most popular ways to do good in careers aren’t best https://80000hours.org/career-guide/high-impact-jobs/ 73 comments
- Will making more money make you happier, and if so, how much? https://80000hours.org/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-whether-money-makes-you-happy/ 5 comments
- Artificial intelligence risk research https://80000hours.org/career-guide/top-careers/profiles/artificial-intelligence-risk-research/ 74 comments
- What are the 10 most harmful jobs? https://80000hours.org/2015/08/what-are-the-10-most-harmful-jobs/ 48 comments
- How many lives does a doctor save? https://80000hours.org/2012/08/how-many-lives-does-a-doctor-save/ 56 comments
- Show HN: A career test for people who want to have a social impact https://80000hours.org/career-guide/career-recommender/ 54 comments
Lobsters
- Startup employees don't earn more https://80000hours.org/2015/10/startup-salaries-and-equity-compensation/ 2 comments finance , practices
- A new kind of space race could be on, and things are moving fast. So shouldn’t we be paying more attention to the future of space governance? https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/space-governance/ 3 comments space
- Andrew Yang discusses humanity's long-term future, what the world will look like years and decades from now. A podcast based from the 'effective altruism' movement https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/andrew-yang-very-long-term-future/ 16 comments futurology
- Not being diversified enough https://80000hours.org/2015/10/common-investing-mistakes-in-the-effective-altruism-community/?utm_source=pocket_mylist 260 comments financialindependence
- Peter Singer on being provocative, how his moral views have changed, and saving children drowning in shallow ponds https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/peter-singer-advocacy-and-the-life-you-can-save/ 5 comments philosophy
- Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, the blockchain’s failures so far, and how it could yet change the world [3 hour interview] https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/vitalik-buterin-new-ways-to-fund-public-goods/ 29 comments ethereum
- A review of doing a philosophy PhD and trying to become a philosophy academic as a career track — the odds of success, chances of having a social impact, quality of life, and so on. https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/philosophy-academia/ 22 comments philosophy
- Animals in the wild often suffer a great deal. An interview with Persis Eskander, researcher at the Open Philanthropy Project on what, if anything we should do about it - 80,000 Hours Podcast https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/persis-eskander-wild-animal-welfare/ 24 comments philosophy
- How would you contend against Glen Weyl's prognosis that the "blockchain" is a dead end (at a technical level)? https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/glen-weyl-radically-reforming-capitalism-and-democracy/ 18 comments ethereum
- Tackling the ethics of infinity, being clueless about the effects of our actions, and having moral empathy for intellectual adversaries, with philosopher Dr Amanda Askell https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/amanda-askell-moral-empathy/ 60 comments philosophy
- CS Career Salary Progression - Are SR engineers undervalued? https://80000hours.org/career-guide/reports/software-engineering-at-large-tech-firms/ 7 comments cscareerquestions
- From social skills to sleep patterns: all the self-help advice that actually works https://80000hours.org/career-guide/how-to-be-successful 11 comments productivity
- Oxford academic discusses 3 new possible resolutions of the Fermi Paradox https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/anders-sandberg-fermi-paradox/ 14 comments space
- Why the long-term future of humanity matters more than anything else (in depth interview with Oxford philosopher) https://80000hours.org/articles/why-the-long-run-future-matters-more-than-anything-else-and-what-we-should-do-about-it/ 16 comments philosophy
- The world needs AI researchers. Here’s how to become one. (Interview with Dr Amodei at OpenAI.) https://80000hours.org/2017/07/podcast-the-world-needs-ai-researchers-heres-how-to-become-one/ 9 comments artificial
- Podcast: The world desperately needs AI strategists. Here’s how to become one. https://80000hours.org/2017/06/the-world-desperately-needs-ai-strategists-heres-how-to-become-one/ 6 comments artificial
- All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be successful in any job https://80000hours.org/career-guide/how-to-be-successful/ 4 comments business
- Y Combinator founders earn $2.5m a year on average https://80000hours.org/2014/05/how-much-do-y-combinator-founders-earn/ 3 comments business
- I want to make a difference. Should I become a philosopher? https://80000hours.org/2015/06/i-want-to-make-a-difference-should-i-become-a-philosopher/ 6 comments philosophy
- Harvard Law grads are 60,000 times more likely to enter Congress than average https://80000hours.org/2015/07/what-are-your-odds-of-getting-into-congress-if-you-try/ 148 comments politics
- Ever wondered how much Y Combinator founders earn? http://80000hours.org/blog/341-how-much-do-y-combinator-founders-earn 8 comments business
- The most important unsolved problems in ethics http://80000hours.org/blog/99-the-most-important-unsolved-problems-in-ethics 8 comments philosophy
- 80,000 Hours | Blog: How to be a high impact philosopher http://80000hours.org/blog/46-how-to-be-a-high-impact-philosopher 5 comments philosophy
Linking pages
- Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not. We are all losing out because of this. - Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/talent-is-everywhere-opportunity-is-not 877 comments
- Peter Singer on the lives you can save - Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/12/6/20992100/peter-singer-effective-altruism-lives-you-can-save-animal-liberation 400 comments
- Effective Altruism Is The Nerdy Social Movement That Teaches People How To Do Good Better https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidebanis/2018/11/15/effective-altruism-is-the-nerdy-social-movement-that-teaches-people-how-to-do-good-better/ 390 comments
- Effective Altruism vs. Feel Good Altruism: How to Make a Bigger Difference in the World - The Emotion Machine http://www.theemotionmachine.com/effective-altruism-vs-feel-good-altruism-how-to-make-a-bigger-difference 321 comments
- Extreme altruism: should you care for strangers at the expense of your family? | Philosophy | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/22/extreme-altruism-should-you-care-for-strangers-as-much-as-family 278 comments
- How to open a file in Emacs - Murilo Pereira https://www.murilopereira.com/how-to-open-a-file-in-emacs/ 163 comments
- How to Optimize Your Social Impact - Lemonade Insurance https://www.lemonade.com/blog/how-to-optimize-your-social-impact/ 147 comments
- The Most Efficient Way to Save a Life - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-the-greatest-good/395768/?single_page=true 146 comments
- Join Wall Street. Save the world. - The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/31/join-wall-street-save-the-world/ 99 comments
- #44 — Being Good and Doing Good https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/being-good-and-doing-good 78 comments
- Here Are The 52 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2 • TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/19/here-are-the-52-startups-that-launched-at-y-combinator-summer-2015-demo-day-2/ 65 comments
- In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-continued-defense-of-effective 49 comments
- GitHub - nushackers/notes-to-cs-freshmen-from-the-future: Notes to (NUS) Computer Science Freshmen, From The Future (Original by @ejamesc) https://github.com/nushackers/notes-to-cs-freshmen-from-the-future 31 comments
- The Most Efficient Way to Save a Life - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/what-is-the-greatest-good/395768/ 31 comments
- Was Intrade being manipulated over the last month? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/11/was-intrade-being-manipulated-over-the-last-month.html 29 comments
- The Poker Pro Who Wants to Save the World | HuffPost Impact http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-poker-pro-who-wants-to-save-the-world_us_58323653e4b0d28e55215178 17 comments
- William MacAskill: ‘There are 80 trillion people yet to come. They need us to start protecting them’ | Population | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/21/william-macaskill-what-we-owe-the-future-philosopher-interview 16 comments
- This Startup Entrepreneur Lives On Min. Wage So He Has More Money To Donate | HuffPost Impact http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-startup-entrepreneur-lives-on-minimum-wage-so_us_5783da0ee4b05b4c02fd2e0b 12 comments
- Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’ | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/effective-altruism-artificial-intelligence-sam-bankman-fried/ 12 comments
- Global poverty, climate change: the case for effective altruism - Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/12/14/18088514/effective-altruism-poverty-philanthropy-william-macaskill 9 comments