#120 – Audrey Tang on what we can learn from Taiwan’s experiments with how to do democracy

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#121 – Matthew Yglesias on avoiding the pundit's fallacy and how much military intervention can be used for good

'121':1 'avoid':5 'fallaci':9 'good':19 'intervent':14 'matthew':2 'militari':13 'much':12 'pundit':7 'use':17 'yglesia':3

#122 – Michelle Hutchinson & Habiba Islam on balancing competing priorities and other themes from our 1-on-1 careers advising

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#123 – Samuel Charap on why Putin invaded Ukraine, the risk of escalation, and how to prevent disaster

'123':1 'charap':3 'disast':17 'escal':12 'invad':7 'prevent':16 'putin':6 'risk':10 'samuel':2 'ukrain':8

#124 – Karen Levy on fads and misaligned incentives in global development, and scaling deworming to reach hundreds of millions

'124':1 'develop':11 'deworm':14 'fad':5 'global':10 'hundr':17 'incent':8 'karen':2 'levi':3 'million':19 'misalign':7 'reach':16 'scale':13

#125 – Joan Rohlfing on how to avoid catastrophic nuclear blunders

'125':1 'avoid':7 'blunder':10 'catastroph':8 'joan':2 'nuclear':9 'rohlf':3

#126 – Bryan Caplan on whether lazy parenting is OK, what really helps workers, and betting on beliefs

'126':1 'belief':17 'bet':15 'bryan':2 'caplan':3 'help':12 'lazi':6 'ok':9 'parent':7 'realli':11 'whether':5 'worker':13

#127 – Sam Bankman-Fried on taking a high-risk approach to crypto and doing good

'127':1 'approach':12 'bankman':4 'bankman-fri':3 'crypto':14 'fri':5 'good':17 'high':10 'high-risk':9 'risk':11 'sam':2 'take':7

#128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen

'128':1 'blattman':3 'chris':2 'five':6 'happen':9 'reason':7 'war':8

#129 – James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination

'129':1 'art':9 'control':12 'elimin':14 'jame':2 'malaria':11 'state':6 'tibenderana':3

#130 – Will MacAskill on balancing frugality with ambition, whether you need longtermism, & mental health under pressure

'130':1 'ambit':8 'balanc':5 'frugal':6 'health':14 'longterm':12 'macaskil':3 'mental':13 'need':11 'pressur':16 'whether':9

#131 – Lewis Dartnell on getting humanity to bounce back faster in a post-apocalyptic world

'131':1 'apocalypt':15 'back':9 'bounc':8 'dartnel':3 'faster':10 'get':5 'human':6 'lewi':2 'post':14 'post-apocalypt':13 'world':16

#132 – Nova DasSarma on why information security may be critical to the safe development of AI systems

'132':1 'ai':16 'critic':10 'dassarma':3 'develop':14 'inform':6 'may':8 'nova':2 'safe':13 'secur':7 'system':17

#133 – Max Tegmark on how a 'put-up-or-shut-up' resolution led him to work on AI and algorithmic news selection

'133':1 'ai':19 'algorithm':21 'led':14 'max':2 'news':22 'put':8 'put-up-or-shut-up':7 'resolut':13 'select':23 'shut':11 'tegmark':3 'work':17

#134 – Ian Morris on what big picture history teaches us

'134':1 'big':6 'histori':8 'ian':2 'morri':3 'pictur':7 'teach':9 'us':10

#135 – Samuel Charap on key lessons from five months of war in Ukraine

'135':1 'charap':3 'five':8 'key':5 'lesson':6 'month':9 'samuel':2 'ukrain':13 'war':11

#136 – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future

#137 – Andreas Mogensen on whether effective altruism is just for consequentialists

'137':1 'altruism':7 'andrea':2 'consequentialist':11 'effect':6 'mogensen':3 'whether':5

#138 – Sharon Hewitt Rawlette on why pleasure and pain are the only things that intrinsically matter

'138':1 'hewitt':3 'intrins':15 'matter':16 'pain':9 'pleasur':7 'rawlett':4 'sharon':2 'thing':13

#139 — Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value

'139':1 'alan':2 'expect':11 'hájek':3 'paradox':7 'probabl':9 'puzzl':5 'valu':12

#140 – Bear Braumoeller on the case that war isn't in decline

'140':1 'bear':2 'braumoel':3 'case':6 'declin':12 'isn':9 'war':8

#141 – Richard Ngo on large language models, OpenAI, and striving to make the future go well

'141':1 'futur':14 'go':15 'languag':6 'larg':5 'make':12 'model':7 'ngo':3 'openai':8 'richard':2 'strive':10 'well':16

#142 – John McWhorter on key lessons from linguistics, the virtue of creoles, and language extinction

'142':1 'creol':12 'extinct':15 'john':2 'key':5 'languag':14 'lesson':6 'linguist':8 'mcwhorter':3 'virtu':10

#143 – Jeffrey Lewis on the most common misconceptions about nuclear weapons

'143':1 'common':7 'jeffrey':2 'lewi':3 'misconcept':8 'nuclear':10 'weapon':11

In the last couple of years, in December/January, the 80,000 Podcast has re-posted or re-released a few episodes from previous years and highlighted them as 'classic' episodes.

What episodes will be marked as 'classic' next?

This will resolve YES to 1+ episodes, depending on how many episodes get re-released as 'classics' in the next 'batch'. Ie. from when the next 'classic' episode is (re-)released, until regular (new) episodes are released.

In other words, last year this would have resolved YES for:

#100 (re-)posted on December 27th 2023 (originally released May 2021)

#111 (re-)posted on January 4th 2024 (originally released September 2021)

#112 (re-)posted on January 8th 2024 (originally released October 2021)

#90 (re-)posted on January 12th 2024 (originally released January 2021)

These were released in one 'batch', ie with no new 'regular' episodes in between them (though there was a one-off highlights episode) and are highlighted as 'classic episodes' in their titles

At the end of 2023, 4 episodes originally released in 2021 were marked as 'classic'

At the end of 2022, 3 episodes originally released in 2020 were marked as 'classic'

At the end of 2021, 2 episodes originally released in 2019 AND 2 episodes originally released in 2018 were marked as 'classic' 

At the end of 2019, 3 episodes originally released in 2018 were marked as 'classic'

Given this pattern, I am setting episodes from 2022 as answers

The deadline may be extended as necessary