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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
How to Untangle the Elephant in the Brain
The key thing is medicine is much less useful health-wise than you think. Look at broad patterns of behavior in other people and then ask, what are the various theories we could have to explain these patterns of behavior? And then just do the simple matching, which theory better matches the behavior they have? The last step is to assume that's true of YouTube. If you happen to be an exception, that won't go so well. But nevertheless, on average, you aren't very well positioned to judge if you're an exception.
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