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The Frontrunners
Competing to be 80,000 Hours Podcast's next guest
| # | Nominee | Tags | Votes | Recent Voters | |
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| 1 | ML  Michael Levin @drmichaellevin | Bioelectricity and Morphogenesis+2 | 1 |
| 2 | DD  David Deutsch @daviddeutschoxf | Beginning of Infinity+2 | 1 |
| 3 | DC  David Chalmers @davidchalmers42 | AI Consciousness+2 | 1 |
| 4 | SH  Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh | Superdeterminism+2 | 1 |
| 5 | JB  Joscha Bach @plinz | Machine Consciousness+2 | 1 |
| 6 | KM  Katie Mack @astrokatie | Cosmology+2 | 1 |
| 7 | RC  Robin Carhart-Harris @rcarhartharris | Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy+2 | 1 |
| 8 | MT  Max Tegmark @tegmark | AI Existential Risk+2 | 1 |
| 9 | EH  Erik Hoel @erikphoel | Theories of Consciousness+2 | 1 |
| 10 | PB  Prof. Brian Keating @drbriankeating | BICEP2 and Scientific Self-Correction+2 | 1 |
| 11 | JP  John Preskill @preskill | — | 1 |
| 12 | SC  Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll | — | 1 |
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with Guest
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with Guest
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with Katja Grace and Tom Davidson
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with Guest
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with Max Nadeau on why ambitious people should start AI safety nonprofits
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with Guest
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