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#10 - Nick Beckstead on how to spend billions of dollars preventing human extinction

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Shift in My Thinking About Broad Interventions

Over time you've shifted from working on broader to more narrow interventions. What's the reason for that? I think over time i've just kind of held some of these views for longer and been in more arguments about them and feel like pieces of it haven't hold up maybe better than my might have expected at some points in the past. There's a lot of people who you know in some way or another are interested in seeing faster economic growth. It's just kind of a much more popular lens in public policy making although i would like it to be a more popular one.

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