Today we cross-posted to our podcast feed some interviews Rob did recently on two other podcasts — Mission Daily (from 2m) and The Good Life (from 1h13m).

Some of the content will be familiar to regular listeners or readers — but if you’re at all interested in Rob’s personal thoughts, there should be quite a lot of new material to make listening worthwhile.

The first interview is with Chad Grills. They focused largely on new technologies and existential risks, but also discuss topics like:

Why Rob is wary of fiction

Egalitarianism in the evolution of hunter gatherers

How to stop social media screwing with politics

Careers in government versus business

The second interview is with Prof Andrew Leigh — the Shadow Assistant Treasurer in Australia. This one gets into more personal topics than Rob usually covers, like:

What advice would he give to his teenage self?

Which person has most shaped his view of living an ethical life?

His approach to giving to the homeless

What does he do to maximise his own happiness?

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The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.