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Grand Futures: What are we hoping for? What do we do if we get it? | Anders Sandberg | EAGxOxford 22
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Is There a Finite Limit to Decision Theory?
I think many of the everyday conclusions don't change that much because we still need to work hard on reducing existential risk. So many of those things we just get fewer and more exclamation marks after them. Even if truly infinite value was possible it might still not actually break our decision theory. But this is an open area and I'm curious to see what happens. Generally I tend to take the neuroscientist view that 1.4 liters of goopy stuff in my head can make decisions. That's kind of awesome that it just happens in the first place. These decisions are biased, they're a bit random, and we should expect good decision theory to be very robust. Most of
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