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1007: How to Find Solid Career Ground in the AI Era, with 80,000 Hours Founder Ben Todd

aired Jul 07, 2026 · 95.0m
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Summary

What's an outcome for humanity even worse than extinction?.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, yeah, it's, including: My guest today works on the problems most people are too sane to even imagine, and he has some frightening ideas to share with us indeed.

Key takeaways
  1. 01My understanding, you can correct me if I'm wrong, and this might be from my memory when you were on the show five years ago
  2. 02And then plan Z is maybe the most interesting bit That if kind of everything goes wrong What are you going to do as a backup And that really useful for making it easier to take ris
  3. 03So you want to avoid that but then there is an opposite bias of like you can't make a precise quantitative model for all of these things
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