2023 Mega-highlights Extravaganza

2023 Mega-highlights Extravaganza

Happy new year! We've got a different kind of holiday release for you today. Rather than a 'classic episode,' we've put together one of our favourite highlights from each episode of the show that came out in 2023.

That's 32 of our favourite ideas packed into one episode that's so bursting with substance it might be more than the human mind can safely handle.

There's something for everyone here:

  • Ezra Klein on punctuated equilibrium
  • Tom Davidson on why AI takeoff might be shockingly fast
  • Johannes Ackva on political action versus lifestyle changes
  • Hannah Ritchie on how buying environmentally friendly technology helps low-income countries
  • Bryan Caplan on rational irrationality on the part of voters
  • Jan Leike on whether the release of ChatGPT increased or reduced AI extinction risks
  • Athena Aktipis on why elephants get deadly cancers less often than humans
  • Anders Sandberg on the lifespan of civilisations
  • Nita Farahany on hacking neural interfaces

...plus another 23 such gems.

And they're in an order that our audio engineer Simon Monsour described as having an "eight-dimensional-tetris-like rationale."

I don't know what the hell that means either, but I'm curious to find out.

And remember: if you like these highlights, note that we release 20-minute highlights reels for every new episode over on our sister feed, which is called 80k After Hours. So even if you're struggling to make time to listen to every single one, you can always get some of the best bits of our episodes.

We hope for all the best things to happen for you in 2024, and we'll be back with a traditional classic episode soon.

This Mega-highlights Extravaganza was brought to you by Ben Cordell, Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong

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Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world

Spencer Greenberg on staying sane while trying to save the world

If you genuinely believe that humanity could be wiped out by AI or a pandemic, what is the appropriate amount of fear to feel?“As much as possible” can seem like the only reasonable answer. If the wor...

28 Heinä 2h 9min

Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe

Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe

Many AI researchers believe mass job displacement is coming — and some even think there’s a chance their technology will kill everyone. But they’re building it anyway. Writer and journalist Jasmine Su...

21 Heinä 1h 6min

#247 – Anton Leicht on how middle powers avoid losing everything in a post-AI world

#247 – Anton Leicht on how middle powers avoid losing everything in a post-AI world

In a post-AGI world, can a country without access to frontier AI even be considered sovereign anymore?Anton Leicht says once frontier AI becomes a core economic input, the countries that own it will p...

14 Heinä 1h 33min

#246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws

#246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws

Six years ago, aged just 15, Sneha Revanur founded the AI advocacy nonprofit Encode AI — back when AI felt like a niche issue. Now the world’s caught up with her, and she’s ready to share everything s...

8 Heinä 52min

We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters.

We can guess what intergalactic war would look like. And strangely, it matters.

Intergalactic war is probably billions of years away — yet physics can already tell us how it ends. And strangely that conclusion is relevant to decisions people have to make today.In this video, Rob ...

18 Kesä 15min

How AI could create the world’s biggest problems (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)

How AI could create the world’s biggest problems (article by Zershaaneh Qureshi)

Imagine you’re living 15,000 years ago. Your people are hunter-gatherers and you sleep under the stars. If someone told you humans would one day build cities with millions of people, fly through the a...

11 Kesä 1h 29min

#245 – Rohin Shah on what it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers')

#245 – Rohin Shah on what it's really like to run AGI safety at Google DeepMind (and where I disagree with 'doomers')

Most people working on AI safety think without a massive effort AI systems will probably end up with goals catastrophically different from humanity’s. Today’s guest, Rohin Shah — head of AGI Safety an...

2 Kesä 2h 48min

What makes for a dream job? | Benjamin Todd

What makes for a dream job? | Benjamin Todd

What actually makes a job fulfilling? It's not what most career advice tells you. "Follow your passion" sounds inspiring, but it's misleading — and the research backs that up.Drawing on hundreds of st...

28 Touko 28min

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