Does It Matter If Someone Else Would Do It Anyway?
How the idea that 'someone else would do it anyway' shapes career choices and moral responsibility.
How to Build a High-Impact, Fulfilling Career
Use evidence, reflection, and experimentation to turn your 80,000 working hours into a career that is…
Wild Animal Suffering: Ethics, Consciousness, and Intervention
Exploring whether wild animals’ lives are worth living, how consciousness emerges, and when humans should intervene…
How Nuclear Escalation Happens and How to Reduce the Risk
Exploring how miscalculation, technology, and human error could turn a local crisis into a civilization-threatening nuclear…
Technical AI Safety Research: Careers, Skills, and Pathways
Explore how to become a technical AI safety researcher, what the work involves, and why it…
How to Build a Fulfilling, High-Impact Career
A research-informed roadmap to choosing work that is both personally fulfilling and genuinely improves the world.
How to Be a High-Impact Mission-Driven Podcast Host
A detailed guide to planning, hosting, and growing a podcast that advances a serious, mission-driven cause.
Sleeper-Agent AI Risks and the Policy Response
How sleeper-agent behaviors, bad incentives, and weak institutions shape the emerging risks of advanced AI systems.
Forecasting Careers: Skills, Impact, and How to Get Started
How to use probabilistic forecasting skills, data, and judgment to shape better decisions on the world’s…
Why Faster Science Isn’t Always Better
Exploring whether accelerating scientific advancement truly benefits humanity or poses existential threats.
Why Following Your Passion Isn’t Enough for Career Success
Rethink the myth of following your passion and learn a more evidence-based way to build a…
How Chris Olah Built an AI Research Career Without a Degree
Practical lessons from a non-traditional path into top AI labs, research impact, and explaining complex ideas…