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Rob Wiblin

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Rob Wiblin

@robertwiblin

Host of the 80,000 Hours Podcast. Exploring the inviolate sphere of ideas one interview at a time: 80000hours.org/podcast/

Joined June 2009

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Rob Wiblin
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Oct 2, 2025
Convention wisdom is that bioweapons are humanity's greatest weakness – 100x cheaper to make than to defend against. Andrew Snyder-Beattie thinks conventional wisdom is likely wrong. He has a plan cheap enough to do without government. Useful even in worst case scenarios like
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Rob Wiblin
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Apr 4, 2025
Seen on Slack.
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Rob Wiblin
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Jun 18, 2025
Huge repository of information about OpenAI and Altman just dropped — 'The OpenAI Files'. There's so much crazy shit in there. Here's what Claude highlighted to me: 1. Altman listed himself as Y Combinator chairman in SEC filings for years — a total fabrication (?!): "To
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Rob Wiblin
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Aug 8, 2025
Christ this data is so grim: "The troubling decline in conscientiousness. A critical life skill is fading out — and especially fast among young adults."
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Rob Wiblin
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Jun 3, 2025
What in the actual fuck:
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Rob Wiblin
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Apr 23, 2025
A new legal letter aimed at OpenAI lays out in stark terms the money and power grab OpenAI is trying to trick its board members into accepting — what one analyst calls "the theft of the millennium." The simple facts of the case are both devastating and darkly hilarious. I'll
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Rob Wiblin
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Feb 13, 2025
It's ridiculous how much LLMs hallucinate - whenever I read 60 million books I remember every detail perfectly.
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Rob Wiblin
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Sep 12, 2024
Jesus this is beyond idiotic: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
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Rob Wiblin
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Oct 25, 2024
Missed this gem. (GPT3.5 could do this 2 months later.)
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Rob Wiblin
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Jun 17, 2025
Ben Todd has written the best thing on how to plan your career given AI/AGI. Will thread. A very plausible scenario is salaries for the right work go up 10x over a ~decade, before then falling to 0. So we might be heading for a brief golden age followed by crazy upheaval. 1/
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Rob Wiblin
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Apr 11, 2025
Should edgy heterodox centrists accept some of the blame for Trump? Slate Star Codex:
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Rob Wiblin
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Jun 18, 2025
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Here's a news article about it (I haven't read): theverge.com/openai/688783/… And the full repository: openaifiles.org (I asked Opus 4 extended reasoning to double check a number of these which sounded too crazy but please do point out if any of them are not summarised quite
The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works
From theverge.com
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Rob Wiblin
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Nov 27, 2024
One OpenAI critic calls it "the theft of at least the millennium and quite possibly all of human history." Are they right? UCLA nonprofit law expert Rose Chan Loui and I discuss OpenAI's unprecedented gambit to ditch its nonprofit for good: 4:08 – How OpenAI carefully chose a
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Rob Wiblin
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May 22, 2025
Recent Pew polling on AI is crazy: 1. US public wildly negative about AI, huge disagreement with experts 2. ~2x as many expect AI to harm as benefit them 3. Public more concerned than excited at ~4.5 to 1 ratio 4. Public & experts think regulation will not go far enough 1/
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