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Tanya Singh on ending the operations management bottleneck in effective altruism - 80,000 Hours

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Tesla Motors' key bottleneck to changing the world is developing efficient and reliable internal systems - just like the effective altruism movement. Yeah, I was able to free up more than one researcher-equivalent, I think that’s fair to say. It’s clear you can do that when the ops to researcher ratio is 1:10. Or 1:20, which was the figure I was dealing with for a while! — Tanya Singh Almost nobody is able to do groundbreaking physics research themselves, and by the time his brilliance was appreciated, Einstein was hardly limited by funding. But what if you could find a way to unlock the secrets of the universe like Einstein nonetheless? Today’s guest, Tanya Singh, sees herself as doing something like that every day. She’s Executive Assistant to one of her intellectual heroes who she believes is making a huge contribution to improving the world: Professor Bostrom at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute (FHI). She couldn’t get more work out of Bostrom with extra donations, a

Tanya Singh on ending the operations management bottleneck in effective altruism | 80,000 Hours Search for: On this page: Introduction 1 Highlights 2 Articles, books, and other media discussed in the show 3 Transcript 4 Learn more 5 Related episodes Tesla Motors' key bottleneck to changing the world is developing efficient and reliable internal systems - just like the effective altruism movement. Read transcript See all episodes Yeah, I was able to free up more than one researcher-equivalent, I think that’s fair to say. It’s clear you can do that when the ops to researcher ratio is

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