80,000 Hours Podcast

Rob, Luisa, and the 80000 Hours team

Top mentioned books

Here are the most frequently recommended books on the 80,000 Hours Podcast:
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#1 Mentioned in 28 episodes

The Precipice

Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
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Toby Ord
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#2 Mentioned in 11 episodes

Doing Good Better

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Will MacAskill
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#3 Mentioned in 9 episodes

What We Owe the Future

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William MacAskill
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#4 Mentioned in 8 episodes

Reasons and Persons

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Derek Parfit
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#5 Mentioned in 7 episodes

Superintelligence

Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Nick Bostrom
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#6 Mentioned in 5 episodes

The Secret of Our Success

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Jonathan Yen
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Joseph Henrich
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#7 Mentioned in 4 episodes

The Case against Education

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Bryan Caplan
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#8 Mentioned in 4 episodes

The life you can save

How to Play Your Part in Ending World Poverty
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Peter Singer
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#9 Mentioned in 4 episodes

Algorithms to Live By

The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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Brian Christian
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Tom Griffiths
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#10 Mentioned in 4 episodes

The Doomsday Machine

Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
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Daniel Ellsberg
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#11 Mentioned in 4 episodes

Why the West Rules - For Now

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Ian Morris
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#12 Mentioned in 4 episodes

The Myth of the Rational Voter

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Bryan Caplan
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#13 Mentioned in 4 episodes

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

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Thomas Nagel
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#14 Mentioned in 4 episodes

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

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Robert Nozick
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#15 Mentioned in 4 episodes

1984

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George Orwell
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#16 Mentioned in 3 episodes

How Change Happens

None
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Cass Sunstein
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#17 Mentioned in 3 episodes

Human Compatible

Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
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Stuart J. Russell
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#18 Mentioned in 3 episodes

Everybody Lies

Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
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#19 Mentioned in 3 episodes

Selfish reasons to have more kids

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Bryan Caplan
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#20 Mentioned in 3 episodes

The Alignment Problem

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Brian Christian

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