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You have 80,000 hours in your career.
This makes it your best opportunity to have a positive impact on the world.
- Only three days left to fill out our annual user survey! 80k.link/ZFV It takes 20-30 minutes, and it’s enormously valuable to us! If you need convincing, here’s 6 ways our most recent surveys informed our plans and strategy in big and small ways:
- If you’ve interacted with 80,000 Hours, we’d love to hear from you. Our user survey helps us understand the impact of our programs, find out about our mistakes, and decide what to do next. Please tell us about your experience with us & help us improve!
- "I don't understand why 80,000 Hours is so focused on AI risk" We get it - it's unusual. So here's our new explanation of why existential risks from AI might be the most pressing problem of our time: 80000hours.org/problem-profil… 🧵5 common misconceptions about AI risk👇
- This week we were researching COVID-19. It's a horrible tragedy. But millions of people are rising to the occasion, and there’s a lot of good news mixed in with the bad. Here are the most significant positive things we learned:
- As AI's capabilities improve, it gains the potential to radically transform society. It’s not hard to imagine how this might go badly. We think risks from advanced AI are probably the world’s most pressing problem — our 10-minute explainer sets out why:
00:00 - "The causal effect of quitting a job is estimated at 5.2 'happiness points' out of 10, and breaking up as 2.7 out of 10! This is the kind of massive welfare jump you might expect if you moved from one of the least to most happy countries in the world..."
- "Many aren’t comfortable with the danger posed by nuclear power. But given the climatic stakes, it’s worth asking: Just how much more dangerous is it compared to fossil fuels? According to today’s guest, @mark_lynas it’s actually much, much *safer*."
- We put together a guide for volunteering for COVID-19 - and for helping figure out if you should. We share ideas in 5 categories: - Research - Getting policy right - Scaling up healthcare - Public health advocacy - Keeping everything running
- .@StuartJRitchie replies to @bryan_caplan's thoughts on his paper showing a 1-5 IQ-point gain from each extra year of education. Bryan's comments here: This economist thinks education is mostly pointless - we probe the strength of his case: 80000hours.org/podcast/episod…
- We just kept talking to philosopher David Chalmers for 5 hours because the conversation was so much fun. The result — our favourite and longest episode of the podcast so far — is now out. Enjoy!
- Our high-impact job board now has 225 vacancies, 57 of which have been added in the last month. This board contains a short, curated list of the most promising publicly advertised vacancies we know about right now:
- Why is it that humans control the fate of the world, and chimpanzees… don’t? We think risks from advanced AI is among the world’s most pressing problems. Our new video aims to explain why, summarising our 30k+ word article in <10 minutes. Watch here: 80k.info/aiv
