Bonus: The Worst Ideas in the History of the World

Bonus: The Worst Ideas in the History of the World

Today’s bonus release is a pilot for a new podcast called ‘The Worst Ideas in the History of the World’, created by Keiran Harris — producer of the 80,000 Hours Podcast.

If you have strong opinions about this one way or another, please email us at podcast@80000hours.org to help us figure out whether more of this ought to exist.

Chapters:

  • Rob’s intro (00:00:00)
  • The Worst Ideas in the History of the World (00:00:51)
  • My history with longtermism (00:04:01)
  • Outlining the format (00:06:17)
  • Will MacAskill’s basic case (00:07:38)
  • 5 reasons for why future people might not matter morally (00:10:26)
  • Whether we can reasonably hope to influence the future (00:15:53)
  • Great power wars (00:18:55)
  • Nuclear weapons (00:22:27)
  • Gain-of-function research (00:28:31)
  • Closer (00:33:02)
  • Rob's outro (00:35:13)

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