I was born at the end of the cold war, unaware of the danger we were emerging from. Duck and cover drills (as if those could protect schoolchildren from a nuclear blast) were a curiosity of the past.
The farmer-poet Wendell Berry, who wrote about the dread of nuclear war, died recently. From his 1968 “The peace of wild things”:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least...
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This is great. Are there any more talks on career choice that you could add?
80,000 Hours have only a few videos on their YouTube channel that're more than ten minutes long.
Is there anything you had in mind? I don't know of any other talks that are relevant and whose permissions would be easy to secure.
P.S. I just realized that the audio quality of Toby Ord's talk is very bad.
P.P.S. If anyone would like to take over this project, let me know.
If you'd like I can give a go at cleaning up the audio of Ord's talk.
And by give a go I mean, run it through a few filters to see if it can go from "very bad" to "passable".
Sure, that would be very helpful. Boris did that for a couple of other files. I'll upload any cleaned-up audio sent my way. New audio is also welcome!
E-mail is probably the best way to get in touch: [email protected]
And sorry for the delayed reply! I didn't see your comment.