Rob and Keiran on the philosophy of The 80,000 Hours Podcast
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Is There a Difference Between Cardinal and Ordinal Utility?
There was prodly spaking this turn away from cardinal utility towards ranking different experiences. And i think it did make economics a lot more boring, because you were no longer able to say, well, if we take money from this person ad give it to this other person, they're going to get ten times as much utility out of it. That kind of thing was strongly, strongly discouraged. It wile a mixing up, like cardinal and ordinal verses vers other considerations. I don't even know if you would need to like revolutionized like, bordinal versus cardinal thinking in order, til i get there.
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