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#90 – Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Rosian Veil of Ignorance

With the rosian veil of ignorance you don't know what person you're going to be but you sort of assume these people all have the same values in terms of they like want to have better lives rather than worse lives. The reason we can't do that so cleanly with the worldviews thing is like you don't knows how to translate a standard deviation of goodness say across these different metrics that you're using. We could agree now that if a iris is either more tractable to address or bigger than we currently think it is then the long-termist worldview gets more money relative to a world where like we're more fine than we think we areYeah, i mean one

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