How One Career Can Save a Million Lives

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This video has been adapted from the 80,000 Hours Career Guide, which you can read at 80000hours.org/rational
We strongly recommend it for delving deeper into how you could have a tremendously impactful, while fulfilling, career.
The guide is full of interesting and actionable information, from why you shouldn’t just “follow your passion” to why medicine and charity work aren’t always the best ways to help others. It’s full of practical tips and exercises, and at the end, you’ll have a draft of a new career plan.
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How Many Lives Does a Doctor Save? (part 1): 80000hours.org/articles/how-m...
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@RationalAnimations 2 ай бұрын

@pyeitme508 2 ай бұрын

No wonder!

@themuffinmanofficial 2 ай бұрын

i will read this, but also you have COOKED with this vid

@draggador 2 ай бұрын

A sci-tech career has more opportunities on an average to make disproportionate levels of impact on the society, although not everyone gets to have those rare chances without actively striving for them without being picky.

@mrosskne 2 ай бұрын

@@draggador Personally affecting a few ordinary people is better than affecting society as a whole.

@user-vd7se3ge5v 2 ай бұрын

Petro has been mewing

@Puppeteer_in_the_Void 2 ай бұрын

The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.” The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.” The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!” -Loren Eiseley, The Star Thrower

@smitchered 2 ай бұрын

I first heard this in Scott Alexander's Unsong

@lurifaks92 2 ай бұрын

starfish usually lose the appenages that are touched.

@yahnmahn9035 2 ай бұрын

"Today, on missing the point and looking like a dumbass while trying to be smart" @@lurifaks92

@speedy01247 2 ай бұрын

@@lurifaks92 that is bullshit.

@studsheep 2 ай бұрын

this comment is somewhat amusing

@julonkrutor4649 2 ай бұрын

Garbage collectors save lives. Always understaffed, always overworked they clean up the mess of others. Same goes for bricklayers, roofers ect. Without any of those and a thousand other jobs none of us would enjoy the life we are living. Its a great concert and if just one part stops playing, we have a problem. So treat each other with care and respect.

@wasd____ 2 ай бұрын

Actually, no, the people who create the regulations that make us have garbage collectors and set the standards preventing bricklayers and roofers from doing faulty work are the ones who save lives. Without regulation, standards, legislation, etc., we'd have garbage collectors, but they would only be for rich people who can afford them. We'd have bricklayers and roofers, but they'd do the job as cheap as possible and people would die in building collapses. We need everyone playing their part to save lives, but we also need it done according to rules, not in ways that just make things even worse.

@MartairEPIC 2 ай бұрын

thats just every job dawg

@julonkrutor4649 2 ай бұрын

@@wasd____ Ok, as someone that work to pay for his studies as a garbage collector ... WTF? The bureaucrats are the worst in 90% of the time. I swear, that you could (and should) let 50% of them go and you would only notice a small difference. Next point: Even in the dark times of the middle age in Europa, garbage collection were done everywhere ... otherwise it would not benefit anyone. Then about that "as cheap as possible" ... yes, some do, most don´t. Most will give you an honest price for honest work. But then, most customers want it cheap and are not willing to pay the price of good work. I know, because while in school i helped my grandfather in the summer from time to time and he was in construction. So are some of my friends. The best example i can think if is a friends company: They are building the roofs of houses. A normal company needs 5 days, they need 2. There quality is better, they correct mistakes from the engineers on a regular bases and that is the reason those ppl request them often. But then, they take 10% more and instead of 5 man they need 2. There is this big company, that request them on as regulars and recommends them to basically everyone ... only a few take them after noticing that they take 10%. ...

2 ай бұрын

@@wasd____ Customers keep suppliers from doing faulty work. There's no regulations against bad tasting food, yet most restaurants are fairly decent. Because they want to stay in business. And it's not just rich people who enjoy eating out. There's no regulations against uncomfortable shoes. Yet you can buy comfy shoes. And not just rich people wear shoes.

@incognitotorpedo42 2 ай бұрын

@ How does a buyer know what's inside the walls of a house? What if it doesn't burn down for ten or fifteen years? Do you see the problems here? Sometimes we need regulations because market failures exist.

@shellybrulez 2 ай бұрын

I'll never forget the woman who did my father's liver transplant. She had worked alongside us for years prior to it. The best outcome was that my father would live 5 years more-- he lived 10. To my family, we had 10 more years with him, and it was not only his life saved, but my family's lives bettered just by her one action. It doesn't always seem like one person can do a lot, but truly you can never know how much you'll affect another person by your actions, so I think the best thing to do is always try to impact others positively-- you don't know who it will affect and what difference it will make.

@KeyTryer 2 ай бұрын

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world...

@balala4641 2 ай бұрын

i was thinking exactly that

@cosmologicalturtle9528 2 ай бұрын

What about the wrong man in the right place?

@abdillahahmad7025 2 ай бұрын

In real life, it's more commonly the right man in the right place though

@Cappuccino_Rabbit 2 ай бұрын

So wake, Mr Freeman, wake up and smell the ashes

@PBBISSUSSY 2 ай бұрын

@@Cappuccino_Rabbit+up

@cosmologicalturtle9528 2 ай бұрын

AFIK, there is one man known to have single handedly saved the world from imminent nuclear war: Vasili Arkhipov. He was a Soviet senior officer, who was at a nuclear submarine in the pacific when they were put on the receiving end of depth charges released by the US navy. The charges were only intended to make them surface, but the crew didn’t know this. They had permission to launch the nuclear missile on board if they were attacked, and the two other officers on the sub approved they do this, but Vasili was the sole dissenter. There was no higher chain of command which might have stopped the launch. If Vasili hadn’t dissented, or if he hadn’t been on the sub that day, the weapon would have been launched.

@PaleoalexPicturesLtd 2 ай бұрын

Yes, probably the only one with Petrov

@studsheep 2 ай бұрын

he is a legend

@nghiatrong570 2 ай бұрын

True

@solsystem1342 2 ай бұрын

@@PaleoalexPicturesLtd There are surprisingly many people who've been put in positions where a nuclear strike or even all out war might have seemed a likely outcome. I mean, heck the Cuban missile crisis was the reason that submarine was in that situation. Or perhaps it was another similar incident I forget exactly who it was.

@cosmicaug 2 ай бұрын

@@PaleoalexPicturesLtd Petrov and Arkhipov are *known* as well as some incidents on the USA side (google «"Accidental Nuclear War: a Timeline of Close Calls" "future of life institute"» -what was surprising to me in that list, though understandable, is how many incidents happened during the Cuban missile crisis and yet only the closest call is well publicized). I doubt that other similar close call incidents (on both sides) have not occurred that have been kept secret. It has been considered axiomatic that mutually assured destruction (MAD) was a rational and effective policy. However, if a strong component of luck has been involved all along (as is likely the case), it should change the way we see MAD. This has been the thesis of former Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton, William J. Perry, who has campaigned to publicize this threat, change perception and lobby to change it.

@Skivv5 2 ай бұрын

Imagine spending years of your life hard at work to create a simple easy and cheap solution to some horrible disease or condition, for the american health system to make it so expensive that noone gets it.

@dhararry7929 Күн бұрын

Insulin

@SoapboxFella 2 ай бұрын

The frontier of medicine is not saving lives these days, but bringing people comfort and enabling them to recover as quickly as possible.

@icecrystal7965 Ай бұрын

Indeed Is saving lives what makes for a fulfilling life? Or is it helping to improve quality of life more important? Or even simply helping make sure quality of life doesn't backtrack That's essentially the premise of the act of preventing nuclear war "saving lives" You're not saving lives, you're stopping them from being snuffed out I'd wager being an artist is an incredibly impactful career If one can get it to pay the bills anyway Because your art can inspire others Even give them a reason to get out of bed in the morning Same with therapists and coaches The only time they "save a life" is when they stop someone from committing suicide, or going on a murder spree, or something like that But arguably, the little things they do, to improve someone's mental health and quality of life has a massive impact for that life, and the lives of those around them

@zekejanczewski7275 2 ай бұрын

Dr Nalin was the first guy to say:" Did you try drinking it? " and saving so many lives is so funny to me.

@tfae 2 ай бұрын

It's unlikely that he was the first. But he led trials to figure out the best recipe, and did the political wrangling to get it recognized in the mainstream.

@MaxJ.ProfessionalLilGuy 2 ай бұрын

I’m gonna start drinking the rest of the liquids out of IV bags from hospitals to see if I can become famous too

@TomfooleryOfTheTrolls 2 ай бұрын

@@MaxJ.ProfessionalLilGuyI think you’ll be famous for the least intact stomach.

@josgeerink1350 2 ай бұрын

@@MaxJ.ProfessionalLilGuyHow'd it go?

@draytonbeninger8956 2 ай бұрын

It's great to see ORS get mentioned! It's important to remember that Nalin was also able to do what he did because he was surrounded by other researchers and doctors. Another big part of why it's saved so many lives is also because of people after him pushing for it to be recognized, and from organizations like icddr,b which kept research going and are still saving people in Bangladesh today. Even if you aren't the one to invent something, you can still have a huge impact!

@portobellomushroom5764 2 ай бұрын

I think an even more important question than "How can I make a difference" is "Is what I'm doing making a positive difference?" Everyone should not focus on making the most impact by themselves but rather finding the thing they are best at and doing that thing in a way that enables others to do more good. If doing good were a competition, we would get in each other's way in trying to be "The one" who does the most good. In order to allow for the most good to be done in the world, both because of and in spite of your own actions, you need to relinquish the idea that one person deserves the credit when really they were just the last in a long line of people to make that change happen

@Montgomerygolfgator 2 ай бұрын

I deliver fuel, every tank I put into the ground drives climate change... But every time a fire engine stops and fills with diesel, I became a part of their support chain. Every time a cardiologist stops for fuel, every time an ambulance does, someone being driven to chemo, every person who stops to get fuel... I made it possible. I was an invisible part of making so much good happen... Just doing my job.

@mrosskne 2 ай бұрын

You should focus on doing whatever you feel like doing. There is no correct way to live.

@BulbasaurLeaves 2 ай бұрын

I agree. It's important to focus on the lives being saved, not who gets the credit for saving them. If I was trying to cure some disease and another lab got there first, I would be glad that the disease was cured sooner. Making the world a better place isn't a competition.

@Lordbeanflorp 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazed by the quality of animation in your videos, it’s so incredibly high effort.

@gollossalkitty 2 ай бұрын

furries

@fiercemonkey1 2 ай бұрын

Thank you to all who have saved many, or even just one. lets pay things forward so we can keep saving others from a early grave.

@thesaddestdude3575 2 ай бұрын

What if you don't want to help the world. I don't really feel like it.

@smitchered 2 ай бұрын

Progress studies! To remind yourself that incredible human progress has been made, and that we already possess tried and true methods of solving every problem! This is constructive optimism, I think--that if the world is doomed, it is by coincidence and it doesn't negate the progress we've made thus far. The other lesson is that the tools you need to un-doom the world are in plain sight.

@televikkuntdaowuxing 2 ай бұрын

‘Progress’ can also create doom. Denying this is, as you put it, mere optimism. We’re filled with microplastics nowadays, 10.000 years ago we weren’t. I’m not saying we haven’t toppled certain problems with the adequate solutions, but that with each solution created new problems are generated. The invention of the car (pre)supposes the invention of the car crash, this principle will always exist. Optimism is necessary, yes, but so is pessimism, being realism the truly useful product of this synthesis.

@JuanRodrigez-vq9kv 2 ай бұрын

I mean, while I agree that optimism is useful in this kind of video it end up as more of a technological utopia than an accurate search of hope, I would say that social changes are much more important than technological advances since there are evidence that the steam engine (or at least a very primitive version of it) was discovered in ANCIENT GREECE but it wasn't use do the base and superstructure conditions of that time (or in another words posible mechanical engines are useless in a system based on agricultural slavery)

@Montgomerygolfgator 2 ай бұрын

The butterfly effect is all over the question of "what job saves the most lives", because we're all so interconnected. Nurses love Dr Pepper, it's easily available caffeine with a sugar free variety and tastes good even flat. If a nurse catches a possibility fatal error, how much of that was due to being more alert due to the caffeine in their system? Suddenly, a small bit of that life saved is attributed to the vending machine operator, the factory workers that made the soda, the people who harvested the ingredients, thousands of people! Not to mention the people who trained the nurse, of whom they wouldn't have known about an error to catch. It's all to say, if you're doing your job... You probably had a hand in making the lives of others better. Civilization is a group effort, and you are responsible for supporting the saving of lives or the betterment of others in some way you may never be aware of. You always matter.

@theeggtimertictic1136 2 ай бұрын

So true.

@FabiFuu 2 ай бұрын

True

@stevennguyen3687 2 ай бұрын

The distortion on the projector whenever they walk in front is crazy attention to detail

@ShankarSivarajan 2 ай бұрын

6:06 I love the dry humor.

@celestialowl8865 2 ай бұрын

I think it's also worth asking what "deaths prevented" means. Is this deaths directly prevented as a life saving action? Administering preventitive measures that avoid a far more dangerous scenario? Just being there for benign checkups that allow patients to be comfortable not pushing off health concerns until they get worse?

@zachmercy645 2 ай бұрын

Perfect thing to watch while eating lunch!

@lapispyrite6645 2 ай бұрын

I noticed this video a few days ago in my suggested with the old thumbnail. I didn’t click it because I wasn’t sure what it would really be about. However, when you changed it to the new thumbnail with the corgi, I realised it was a video from you guys and I clicked it immediately as I know I like your guys videos. Thought some feedback might be useful on the thumbnail.

@user-mq6pw2fg5u 2 ай бұрын

A British soldier saving a life of German soldier in world war I: 😭

@LeelandOC 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for making these and inspiring us to be better and make a difference!

@Hugiisstecher 2 ай бұрын

Most underrated channel on KZfaq! The animations are so beautiful and the topics are interisting and well made, how doesnt he have millions of subscribers???

@giulianonobili5527 2 ай бұрын

Great timing on the video, thanks very much rational team!

@azfk 2 ай бұрын

I’m currently expelling solid waste, and it is not diarrhea

@bingus_number1 2 ай бұрын

I am currently not expelling waste and am currently dying

@Neuro_nActivation 2 ай бұрын

I am currently being a currency

@zaynosman5162 2 ай бұрын

I am currently asking for proof

@LakesideTrey 2 ай бұрын

Coomin' the chunkies

@Veryspecialat 2 ай бұрын

Is the funny eyeball man?

@kavinesh_the_legend 2 ай бұрын

Bro forgot about the guy who discovered polio vaccine.

@somecatguy3150 2 ай бұрын

Ehhh everyone knows abt him tho these are more rare stories

@Julzaa 2 ай бұрын

The animation is top-notch, bravo!

@milad2848 2 ай бұрын

Amazing video and animation. Please keep up the good work and introduce us to great subject such as this one ❤

@pyeitme508 2 ай бұрын

Wow amazing video thanks!

@IliaBaranov 2 ай бұрын

Amazing video as always! ❤

@corruptedmask4911 2 ай бұрын

This was an amazing video and i really appreciated watching it❤

@Powerlevelover9000 2 ай бұрын

That is one smooth transition to the sponsorship 😂

@Italianjedi7 2 ай бұрын

I love this channel so much

@imjulianshaw 2 ай бұрын

Love this video! Thought-provoking topics beautifully and adorably animated. I can't imagine how much work must've gone into it. This video needs so many more views! Let me suggest titling the video something like "How do you save the most lives?" I think that'd pique people's curiosity!

@_anyone5962 2 ай бұрын

wow... thank you for making my day!

@null-0 2 ай бұрын

The animation is so good

@martakogut6856 2 ай бұрын

Excellent!

@DeRien8 22 күн бұрын

The music in this was great. I was actually dancing through my tasks while listening/watching

@Username-pb4xz 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for so much informational high quality content

@user-mc6dg6qe8l 2 ай бұрын

Measuring by hours of life saved versus fatalities prevented is a major oversight in that research, not to mention minor procedures are still extremely important and can also help prevent major ones being needed (which carry risks.)

@ZanyCat 2 ай бұрын

Adorable animation! You've earned my sub!

@Randomsadi 2 ай бұрын

Wow!!! I watched the whole video just 'cause the animation is so smooth.

@annabago8621 2 ай бұрын

The animations are looking great:D

@apocalyptosoldier5527 2 ай бұрын

Did you forget actually performing life saving operations? This feels like more of that effective altruism missing the forest for the trees scenario. Many of these "less impactful" jobs still have to be done for society to function, otherwise the doctors and engineers won't even have the opportunity to do anything. The work I'm doing might lead to the Dell server being assembled that ends up running the calculation that cures leukemia, or it runs the game some groundbreaking researcher uses to unwind, or it might have no impact at all other than giving me the paycheck I sometimes use to help feed homeless people. If the last one is the case then I'm fine with that, it might not be the biggest impact ever, but those people were going to be hungry and at least for one day each time they weren't.

@chadjones1266 2 ай бұрын

Thanks again

@user-qp2ps1bk3b 2 ай бұрын

it is important to keep in mind that all these amazing discoveries by individual scientists were possible because of mundane work of countless other people. You can't discover blood types if you can't get to work due to lack of roads or if you are mugged and killed along the way

@JuanRodrigez-vq9kv 2 ай бұрын

The people creates the heros not that the heros creates the people

@luisostasuc8135 2 ай бұрын

Off the top of my head: farmers, sanitation workers (trash and sewage), and materials researchers. One example of working on a practical problem is a girl who designed a suture that changes colors in response to an infection, especially useful for people with diabetes and autoimmune conditions (and by girl I mean she was in high school at the time).

@john-wiggains 2 ай бұрын

I’m excited for John Greene to be on this list some day for continued work on trying to make TB care more accessible.

@ShooHere-zg4be Ай бұрын

Appreciate your content, arigato

@michaelrichardson3834 2 ай бұрын

Classic rational animations video right here.

@theeggtimertictic1136 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Petrov for keeping a cool head ... I'd hate to have missed my WHAM phase in 1984!

@UrdnotChuckles 2 ай бұрын

Very interesting video. The last time I tried to use 80,000 hours I found them very geared towards folks just getting into the working world, or perhaps figuring out their post-secondary education for the first time. Which is great for the young, but perhaps not so great for those with established careers seeking change. :)

@_british2431 2 ай бұрын

Holy crap the animation in these videos keeps getting better

@chickadeestevenson5440 2 ай бұрын

Want to save lives? Listen to people, show basic human kindness. Sometimes that's enough to save a life. And of course, vote for policies that increase mental health. Since it's one of the biggest killers. As a doctor listen to patients, and work on preventative medicine.

@ilikemoviesandmore 2 ай бұрын

Really good video! But what about Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin?

@armyposter143 2 ай бұрын

About the person who discovered blood types. Landsteiner did find three, but there are still disputes (to the best of my knowledge) that czech doctor Jan Janský discovered them earlier than him, and for bonus points, he even discovered the fourth main blood type. Not saying this is bad (it is the opposite), but you could have atleast mentioned him.

@herml3548 2 ай бұрын

as a czech person, I agree

@BrazilianKogut 2 ай бұрын

Save the cheerleader, save the world. Amazing vídeo!

@gabrote42 2 ай бұрын

9:25 We saw it in the Game Theory video on Game Theory, that also cited another video on Game Theory that mentioned him :D

@user-jh2yn6zo3c 2 ай бұрын

Hi RationalAnimations: You might want to lead with "How do you figure out the best job to save the world"... Many people would get excited by such a question. Who wouldn't want to see which jobs lead to the most good to save the world?

@LightBringer127_dragonart 2 ай бұрын

“ we’ll start with doctors and end with nuclear war”

@Layde36 2 ай бұрын

That's western Empire in a nutshell

@michaelsonner1240 2 ай бұрын

About half of the current worlds population owe their lives to Fritz Haber's process to synthesize ammonia.

@ShikamaruXT 27 күн бұрын

Even if your career does not really save lives, you can. By stopping at traffic accidents. By talking to your friends. By just beeing nice in general. It's not allways easy, but we can try. So others might try themselfs.

@luongmaihunggia 2 ай бұрын

I think one other thing that people often overlooked is a lot of great wonder and innovation in the modern age if the result of team effort of hundreds or even thousands of people

@capitandonculo 2 ай бұрын

it made me think, if people on every field get to save lifes, it means the chances of saving a life has nothing to do with the work you do (i mean maybe emergency ambulances or smth) but like the war guy saved half the world's lifes + all the enviroment that didn't get bombed. Makes me think, like your path in life is one and random and you may get to save a life, but I bet you can just let it come to you, the opportunity might present, just follow your path, that's all you have to do (you don't even have to try to do it) then makes me think, why do you want a save a life? where does that desire come from? it's a external thing after all, for someone to die, why do you internalize it? the experience is a given to fortune, why do you want to force randomness into reality? what do you want to save? I'm not saying you can't save a life, I'm not saying you cannot help, quite the contrary, do help, do save a life, that's a great feeling to be able to help when given the chance I'd say the only life you're truly able to "save" is yor own, if saving a life means helping someone live their life to the fullest (man that makes me think we can save somebody every day!, maybe always!) man you can save yourself, every day, every moment, so go foucs on that, and broooo if you're living it to the fullest, and THEN you get to save a life, what an experience, beautiful I just wanted to ramble, felt great doing it, enjoy life guys, do help yourself to anything you want

@plyrni3 Ай бұрын

Just do the best you can in your career and constantly think about how you could improve your work or help the others

@r0cketplumber 2 ай бұрын

And in the negative category we have Ancel Keys, the Food Pyramid, and the diabetes-industrial complex that has by the same criteria, killed hundreds of millions.

@joshuascholar3220 2 ай бұрын

I like how the estimates are carried out with realistic caveats, that scientific knowledge will be discovered eventually anyway and so on. That sort of reasoning is rarely added to public accounts, making popular estimates more honorary than realistic.

@Blate1 2 ай бұрын

I chose selling ads as my career of highest possible impact. Boy, I sure hope I’m right about there not being a hell.

@wasd____ 2 ай бұрын

Well, you've sure helped put the rest of us who have to _see_ ads on everything through hell! ...Just kidding, I have a good ad-blocker and I don't watch TV or stuff like that so I probably never even see your work.

@Sal1981 2 ай бұрын

Also, every small decision compounds. You'd be surprised of how just being kind will improve and even save lives down the line.

@acidcosti19 2 ай бұрын

Hi, first here, great video, instant like

@mr.nobody4529 2 ай бұрын

Damnit it should've been me not you

@mihaleben6051 2 ай бұрын

2:22 that. That is a VERY important medical procedure. Its horrible that it even can happen in the first place. And also weird... Idk im not knowleage about this. But i did play foldit, so thats one thing.

@kelleren4840 Ай бұрын

If any of you are wondering what type of career/specialization even determines what is effective, ineffective, and how to change it, the answer is Monitoring and Evaluation.

@JordanBeagle 2 ай бұрын

I think when it comes down to it if you become obsessed about making a difference as an end in itself, you'll be disappointed often just find something that's particular suited to you and you enjoy or at least don't hate, and even minorly improves some peoples lives and you're off to great start

@JuanRodrigez-vq9kv 2 ай бұрын

I would argue that "making a difference by myself" is just another version of the great man history theory, and tbh is kinda harmful since it helps promoting individualistic solutions to collective problems making our efforts to improve the world a mere ego boost

@mrrespected5948 2 ай бұрын

Nice

@terence7025 2 ай бұрын

If you don't think you will make a difference, consider: Which raindrop do you blame for the flood?

@ManuFortis 2 ай бұрын

Remember, while making a big impact is all well and good, and something to strive for; just making an impact at all can be good enough too. Due to chance alone, your small impact, can become a big one. And while you may not be making said impact today, doesn't mean it couldn't happen tomorrow. You could be have done it already, and not even realize it. How? Ever been on the receiving end of someone needing to vent? You could very well have just saved their life. For all you know, they could go on to be the person who makes a huge impact. Or maybe not. But you still helped that person that day, and it could help others in other ways, who knows. Every impact matters.

@leafykille 2 ай бұрын

I have identified a serious issue that I want to fix, I have studied it, I have come up with multiple ways to make thing better, I have refined those ideas and now in my 40s I have some answers. But nobody will listen to me. I'm that weirdo that won't just do things as they have always been done. I have been excluded from society to such an extent that I am now homeless because of my commitment to making a difference. I have achieved nothing, and I will likely die cold and alone in the tent I am sitting in right now without anyone ever even acknowledging that the problem exists and it will continue to kill. All I can do is wait for death and hope it's not too painful as I watch things continue to get worse with no agency at all.

@wilfredpeake9987 2 ай бұрын

If you think about it they are about 15 basic human needs. If you focus on gathering making or distributing these you can have a massive impact. So all in all you have 45 problems that will forever needed to solve.

@thesun6211 2 ай бұрын

More (generalist) physicians aren't as needed in most developed countries, but there's not many that couldn't find productive work for more specialists, nurses (of all sorts), and trauma surgeons.

@frederikh8921 Ай бұрын

I really love the content of your videos, but I think that the sound effects are a bit distracting (too loud, a bit too hectic and too much), which makes it harder to focus on the voice

@fusseltyger 2 ай бұрын

Nice Video... but i need to point out, that background music is really kicking it...

@lukedurett7313 2 ай бұрын

I'd be curious to see how Quality of Life improves with further doctors - not just death rates. And how things like Life Quality work into these calculations generally. This is all invaluable and fascinating but I'm not sure high-impact should only be reserved for life/death rates.

@Monio. Ай бұрын

Mic quality is wild

@DeadtomGCthe2nd 2 ай бұрын

Need more acc! let's gooooo

@matthewboire6843 2 ай бұрын

Your characters in these videos are so cute

@user-vo9cn3ux9f 2 ай бұрын

It’s ironic that a single choice made in a matter of minutes might have saved more lives than any medical discovery that probably took years to develop

@Nulono 2 ай бұрын

This channel really, really likes forest green as of late.

@mil87_ 2 ай бұрын

If everyone was a doctor, or a government official, society would crumble quite quickly. We need the construction workers, the agricultralists, the factory workers, and the miners. While one of them might not be able to single-handedly develop a treatment for Cholera or prevent a nuclear holocaust, we still need rooves to live under and food to eat and all of the products of daily life, and the minerals to make them. These people, though more unmeasurably, save lives as well. Society may not be able to run on only bricklayers and tractor drivers, but it certainly can't run on only academics and politicians either. We all need to be comraderous and respectful to each other, neurosurgeons and cement mixers and artists alike (yeh, even the artists!), because It's all a great balance, in which if even one block falls, the entire tower could fall.

@gollossalkitty 2 ай бұрын

I dunno if that's exactly true but I love the idea.

@R-nummynum 2 ай бұрын

idk why i got so emotional watching this

@Yodaswag 2 ай бұрын

I think education can be very impactful. The people who taught all these amazing people, the people who invented or developed the schools of thought they used in order to develop their solutions. Those people might be just as important. And if one educational advancement by one person can be traced as having a significant role in all 3 cases then it is technically more impactful.

@user-tz8ze3tp7m 7 күн бұрын

I`m a doctor and i`m gonna check out this study but i don`t believe that stat at all, we save a lot more lives than that, because you have to count all the preventive care we do, when we prescribe diabetes medication for instance, or who works in emergency care and intubates a patient who is about to die of respiratory failure, when you treat a pneumonia patient that without treatment would die, surgeons who operate appendicitis, etc... there are just too many interventions that save lives, for it to be just 50 people. But i do believe that more doctors don`t necessarily mean better health outcomes.

@SisterSunny 2 ай бұрын

I found this video strangely touching-I actually teared up, wth

@Lovehandels 2 ай бұрын

I love these stories! But why was blood type changed from C to O? o.O

@JordanBeagle 2 ай бұрын

11:00 I think they call this Hustle Luck

@datonk4042 2 ай бұрын

speaking of Stanislav Petrov's story, there was also a story of a single soviet in a sub who stopped a nuclear launch after the americans discovered them off the coast of Cuba and started throwing practice depth charges to force them to surface

@leguiaxx 2 ай бұрын

I think you are wrong on the question at the end. the questions "what are some of the best ways to make a difference ? what can you do to have the highest impact career you can ?" minimize the compounding effect of work. you tell story about how one person made the right intuition or the right research, or the right choice. But you obfuscate the story of the many that allow for the few to act in time. I think a better question would be : "where can you work, to advance the cause you hold dear, the best that you can ?" and even my question i do not like it, cause it tells of "where to work", or this mindset is rooted in todays way of structuring work, of personal career. but it is the best i could come up with, that does include the story of the many, instead of the story of the few.

@jonathanmichel-sb9bi 2 ай бұрын

Tbh I feel like being a doctor isn't the first choice if you want to save lives anymore. Even if doctors aren't all aware of it, "mainstream medicine" nowadays kind of needs people to be sick in order to function. Not that it's the doctors intentional fault. I'm sure we can do much better and we will be. Just what I think, if you feel I'm wrong please correct me

@Smauritsius 2 ай бұрын

Genuine question; I want to do something that matters! Im fairly good at listening and connecting people who may not like eachother that much (i.e. Family with VERY opposing political opinions). What could I do?

@JuanRodrigez-vq9kv 2 ай бұрын

I would say that joining an organization that genuinely cares about people by helping then in their PR and making more members would be the better choice

@kx4532 2 ай бұрын

It's accessibility to doctors.

@amansahu5512 26 күн бұрын

00:03 Significant technological and population growth in recent history 02:27 Industrial revolution reshaped society and beliefs 07:04 Hyperbolic growth suggests radical and dramatic change in the future 09:11 The possibility of fundamental changes by the end of the 21st century 13:48 Potential for explosive growth in the 21st century hinges on the development of advanced artificial intelligence (A.I.) 16:00 AGI holds the potential to automate human labor. 20:05 AI may automate nearly all human labor by 2060 22:09 Deep learning models may automate human cognition in the future 26:07 Training deep learning models for automation is uncertain but likely feasible by 2052 28:13 AGI could mark a fundamental transformation in our species.