Bonus: The Worst Ideas in the History of the World

80,000 Hours Podcast · Jun 30, 2023 · 35m · transcript

Today’s bonus release is a pilot for a new podcast called ‘The Worst Ideas in the History of the World’, created by Keiran Harris — producer of the 80,000 Hours Podcast.

If you have strong opinions about this one way or another, please email us at podcast@80000hours.org to help us figure out whether more of this ought to exist.

Chapters:

Rob’s intro (00:00:00)

The Worst Ideas in the History of the World (00:00:51)

My history with longtermism (00:04:01)

Outlining the format (00:06:17)

Will MacAskill’s basic case (00:07:38)

5 reasons for why future people might not matter morally (00:10:26)…