Thinklab

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How much does a vote matter?

Robert Wiblin - 80,000 Hours 128d 2 tweets

What are the odds your vote flips the outcome of an election, and how valuable would it be if it did?

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Ben Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it

80,000 Hours 129d 1 tweets

Ben’s been thinking a lot about effective altruism recently, including what it really is, how it's framed, and how people misunderstand it.

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Hilary Greaves on strong longtermism, and whether existing can be good for us

80,000 Hours 133d 3 tweets

Hilary Greaves discusses the case for strong longtermism, cluelessness, moral uncertainty, whether it can be better or worse for someone to exist rather than not, and the latest on the field of global priorities research.

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Ben Todd on varieties of longtermism and things 80,000 Hours might be getting wrong

80,000 Hours 175d 1 tweets

Ben’s been doing a bunch of research recently, and we thought it’d be interesting to hear about how he’s currently thinking about a couple of different topics

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Notes on good judgement and how to develop it

80,000 Hours 175d 2 tweets

The ability to weigh complex information is essential and can be developed.

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Have your career or life plans changed due to 80,000 Hours? Share your story to help us improve & understand our impact

80,000 Hours 181d 3 tweets

Share your story to help us improve, figure out what's actually working, and better understand our impact.

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Five philosophies of career success

80,000 Hours 184d 1 tweets

People have many different beliefs about what drives career success. These different beliefs lead to different philosophies of career advice, which have different implications for how to choose a career. Here I outline what I take to be five common...

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Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline

80,000 Hours 184d 7 tweets

Introduction People frequently ask us what high-impact research in different disciplines might look like. This might be because they're already working in a field and want to shift their research in a more impactful direction. Or maybe they're...

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Mark Lynas on why nuclear power is the most practical way to avoid catastrophic climate change

Robert Wiblin - 80,000 Hours 195d 7 tweets

Why isn’t everyone demanding a massive scale-up of nuclear energy to save lives and stop climate change?

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Global issues beyond 80,000 Hours' current priorities - 80,000 Hours

80,000 Hours 195d 1 tweets

Here we list over 30 global issues beyond the ones we usually prioritize most highly in our work that you might consider focusing your career on tackling. Although we spend the majority of our time at 80,000 Hours on our highest priority problem...

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