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Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Is There a Disappointment in Incentives?

A lot of out signaling and prestige seems to create dynamics where the oldest group can just charge very large amounts and doesn't have to grow, provide like a service to more students. IAPA is actually funding a group that's trying to use machine learning to detect what are the tells on papers for whether they have a result or not. The market is very good at doing what the market does. In fact, it's made humanity much, much richer than it is before. We continue to get big growth in GDP. People are becoming richer all the time. If you want to make the biggest difference possible, you should look at what stuff is more neglected. What isn't already done?

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