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#67 – Guive Assadi on Whether Humanity Will Choose Its Future

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The Convergence of Preferences

David Wheeler: It's possible for me, and probably I do just have a bunch of beliefs which like seem plausible. But when I think about them more, turn out to be confused and then I reject them. And this just, this happens in general in philosophy, right? Like occasionally people do just roughly agree on it. He says if preferences are more diverse, that could in its own way kind of enable cooperation. "I was imagining something like, if we encountered some alien civilization with just totally alien preferences"

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