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Existential Hope Podcast: Robin Hanson | On Futurism and his Best Career Advice
The Foresight Institute Podcast
The Importance of Choosing the Right Research Field
I think there's a lot of promising institutional innovations and again the main obstacle there is more concrete experimentation. I like sort of the grand arc of history things like sort of overall explanations for large arcs in history and try to understand those that think those are neglected. And most people, if you ask them why is their research important, they really can't tell you very much other than what lots of people have been doing it for a while. They aren't thinking in that sort of level of just being responsible for their choice at that fundamental level. Just like look at all the options, choose that's your job.
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