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#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Crazy Idea of Parallel Universes

Three crazy ideas about how we might be living in a computer simulation. Idea that we can influence places and times on which we can't have any causal effect. Third is that the universe might be infinitely large, creating problems for our theories of ethics. Joe: "I find thinking about topics like this really disorientating and demoralizing"

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