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Bonus: The Worst Ideas in the History of the World

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Threat of Future Pandemics

The last idea I had was just to directly rebuild the exact rides from action park except you give a 50% discount off to any park go who happens to work directly with nuclear weapons in their regular career. You know with the thinking that some percentage of those park goes will at some point develop brain damage as a result of the rides. Okay my next one definitely needs a bit of background info. So for years 80,000 hours has been very whiny about the threat of future pandemics and one subsection of their concern relates to what's called gain of function research. They try to make new viruses that have additional or different capabilities than what wilder viruses do. That's so called gain

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