80,000 Hours Podcast

#50 - David Denkenberger on how to feed all 8b people through an asteroid/nuclear winter

Dec 27, 2018
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
All Fed - The Global Catastrophic Ris Institute
03:18 • 2min
3
Is There a Resilience End of the Spectrum?
05:48 • 2min
4
Are There Any Estimates of the Probability of a Mass Starvation of Humanity?
07:52 • 4min
5
Is There a Class of Catastrophes?
12:20 • 4min
6
Are There Any Non Nuclear Wars That Could Interfere With Trade?
16:13 • 4min
7
The Lifeboat Ethic
19:46 • 3min
8
Are There Any Ways to Restore Our Industrial Infrstructure?
23:16 • 3min
9
Using Biofules to Produce Food
25:57 • 4min
10
Can You Grow Mushroms in Your Basement?
30:15 • 5min
11
How Much Knowledge Can We Get From Insects and Rats?
35:08 • 2min
12
Can We Retrefit Existing Plants to Do This?
36:40 • 3min
13
Is Methane a Food Source?
39:30 • 4min
14
How Much Would It Increase the Productivity of Fish?
43:35 • 2min
15
Is It Efficient to Eat Seaweed or Oalgi Directly?
45:22 • 2min
16
How Can We Feed Everyone Over Two Times Over?
47:03 • 5min
17
How Much Do They Cost Now?
51:52 • 4min
18
How Many People Would Be Injured in a Nuclear War?
56:08 • 2min
19
The Biggest Problem Is the Food
57:59 • 5min
20
Is There a Problem With Drinking Water?
01:03:06 • 2min
21
How Confident Are You That It Will Work Out Well?
01:05:12 • 4min
22
What Is Olfed's a Plan?
01:08:53 • 4min
23
Are You Thinking of a Mass Med Outreace?
01:13:01 • 5min
24
How Many Lives Would You Save Per Dollar?
01:18:21 • 4min
25
Is There Existential Risk?
01:22:01 • 4min
26
The Probability of a Nuclear War
01:26:24 • 2min
27
Is There a Probability of a Nuclear War Over 70 Years?
01:28:35 • 6min
28
Is There a Risk of Nuclear War?
01:34:12 • 3min
29
Is It Possible to Develop Industrial Civilization?
01:37:17 • 4min
30
The Cost of the Preparation of the Natural Gas Digesting Bacteria
01:41:07 • 3min
31
The Cost Effectiveness of Alternate Foods
01:43:49 • 4min
32
Do You Believe That This Project Is Well Run Yet?
01:47:46 • 6min
33
Saving Lives
01:53:16 • 3min
34
Is It the Case That the Government Isn't Going to Pay for It?
01:55:54 • 3min
35
Is It Possible to Spend Additional Millions of Dollars?
01:59:10 • 4min
36
What Kind of Journals Are You Getting Off the Ground?
02:03:22 • 2min
37
Is There a Back Up Plan for Nuclear War?
02:04:55 • 2min
38
The Elasticity Framework
02:07:14 • 2min
39
Could China Expand Its Nuclear Arsenal?
02:09:39 • 2min
40
How Much Will It Cost to Save a Life?
02:11:15 • 2min
41
Having a Big Impact Is a Good Idea
02:13:12 • 2min
42
The Southern Hemisphere, I Think?
02:15:38 • 2min
43
The Cost Effectiveness of Alfed
02:17:14 • 3min
44
Do You Think It's Worth It?
02:20:02 • 2min
45
Developing a Natural Gas Digesting Bacteria Solution for the Hoth Household Scale
02:22:19 • 2min
46
Are There Any Other Doubts That You'd Like to Answer?
02:23:57 • 2min
47
Are You Hiring?
02:25:33 • 4min
48
Fundraising for Alternative Foods?
02:29:39 • 2min
49
What's the Biggest Mistake That Allfed Has Made?
02:31:36 • 5min
50
The Most Promising One Is the Heat Exchanger
02:36:08 • 5min
51
How to Delay a Super Volcano a Hundred Years
02:40:43 • 4min
52
Energy Efficiency - Can You Spend a Million Dollars on That?
02:44:37 • 5min
53
Do You Have Any Problems With Your Speech Recognition?
02:49:25 • 2min
54
How to Reduce Existential Risks in Engineering?
02:51:28 • 4min
55
The 80 Thousand Hours Podcast - Dave Denkan Begger
02:55:43 • 2min