Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

Nine: Dave Denkenberger on feeding the world through catastrophes

Oct 3, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
The Global Catastrophic Ris Instituter
03:21 • 6min
3
Are There Any Estimates of the Probability of a Super Volcano Blocking the Sun?
08:51 • 1min
4
Is There a Nuclear Winter?
10:19 • 6min
5
Are There Any Non Nuclear Wars That Could Really Interfere With Trade?
16:03 • 3min
6
The Lifeboat Ethic
19:12 • 4min
7
How to Extract Eating Grass Directly From Leaves
23:26 • 5min
8
Can You Grow Mushrooms on a Log?
28:07 • 3min
9
How Much Mushrooms Do You Need to Eat Per Day?
31:23 • 5min
10
Can We Retefet Existing Plants to Do This?
36:36 • 3min
11
Using Methane as a Food Source?
39:20 • 2min
12
How Much Natural Gas Would You Need?
40:55 • 6min
13
Could You Feed a Lot More People That Eat Others?
46:54 • 5min
14
How Much Do They Cost Now?
51:53 • 2min
15
How Do People React to the First Cut?
54:03 • 4min
16
Nuclear Weapons - What's the Biggest Problem?
57:53 • 2min
17
Is That the Worst Case?
01:00:01 • 5min
18
Are You Sure That It Will Work?
01:05:05 • 4min
19
How to Prepare for a Catastrophe?
01:08:46 • 4min
20
Are You Thinking of a Mass Med Outreach?
01:12:54 • 2min
21
The Cost Effective Analysis for Alternative Foods
01:15:22 • 4min
22
How Much Would It Cost to Save a Life With Mosquito Bed Nets?
01:19:46 • 2min
23
Is There Existential Risk?
01:21:37 • 5min
24
The Probability of a Full Scale Nuclear War
01:26:24 • 2min
25
The Probability of a Nuclear War Is a Good Thing
01:28:28 • 4min
26
How Much Should We Date Nuclear War?
01:32:22 • 4min
27
Is It Possible to Develop Industrial Civilization?
01:36:33 • 4min
28
The Cost of the Preparation of the Natural Gas Digesting Bacteria
01:41:01 • 5min
29
Is Ai More Cost Effective Than Ai?
01:45:36 • 4min
30
How Much Do We Value the Far Future?
01:49:51 • 3min
31
The Return on Investment of Investing in Alternate Foods
01:53:09 • 3min
32
The Cost Effectiveness of Alternative Foods
01:55:47 • 3min
33
Is This Going to Be Worthwhile?
01:58:21 • 5min
34
Is There a Journal on Exextential Risk?
02:03:14 • 2min
35
Is There a Back Up Plan for Nuclear War?
02:04:48 • 2min
36
The Elasticity for Framework
02:07:07 • 2min
37
Is There Potential in Blocking the Sun?
02:09:32 • 2min
38
How Much Will It Cost to Save a Life?
02:11:08 • 2min
39
Are You Having a Huge Impact?
02:13:03 • 2min
40
Is There a Nuclear War?
02:15:31 • 2min
41
The Cost Effectiveness of Alternative Foods
02:17:08 • 4min
42
How Much Money Are You Looking to Rake?
02:20:53 • 2min
43
Do You Have Any Other Doubts That You'd Like to Answer?
02:22:46 • 2min
44
Are You Hiring?
02:24:51 • 5min
45
Fundraising
02:29:32 • 2min
46
The Biggest Mistake Alfed Has Made So Far?
02:31:29 • 5min
47
The Most Promising One Is the Heat Exchanger
02:35:59 • 2min
48
How to Scale a Heat Exchanger?
02:38:08 • 2min
49
How to Delay a Super Volcano
02:40:24 • 4min
50
Energy Efficiency - Can You Expense a Million Dollars?
02:44:48 • 4min
51
Speech Recognition on Your Computer All the Time?
02:49:09 • 2min
52
Are There Other Ways to Reduce Existential Risk?
02:51:37 • 5min