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Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Importance of Purity

I would argue that your values tend to be quite accurately predicted by sort of like what creates happiness, what reduces suffering. And so you can kind of apply achum tracer yourself and try to avoid overfitting. But I don't think that that's true broadly of people. Most people take on board what I'm saying and try to do this thing where they like simplify what the things that they think they value to get most of the prediction with far fewer factors.

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