Bonus: The Worst Ideas in the History of the World
80,000 Hours Podcast
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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