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Highlights: #152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion
12 minutes Posted Aug 8, 2023 at 7:52 pm.
Introduction
The deterministic twin prisoner's dilemma
Newcomb's problem
The idea of 'wisdom longtermism'
On the classic drowning child thought experiment
On why bother being good
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #152 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

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Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour and Milo McGuire