Rob and Keiran on the philosophy of The 80,000 Hours Podcast
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Long Termism and Thersis
Long termism isn't inherently positive. You can be entirely motivated by suffering and still be a did in the wool long termist. I think if effectivatus hadat a different ting and were generally focused on ways that things could go well, we would have better outcomes. It doesn't seem like there's an optimism bias among human beings. If anyh it seems like people tend to be biased towards remembering bad things that happend to them and being annoyed by that, and then worrying about things that could go wrong in future. And yet, do i ally like to hear what do you think are some promising interventions right now in l theatrisk sort of space? Like, do
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