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#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion

80,000 Hours Podcast

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How to Cope When Philosophy Demolishes Just One Piece Too Many of Your Common Sense

Joe Kostemeth is a philosopher by training, having done his undergrad at Yale. He's also a well-known writer and blogger who has an extensive corpus of research on all sorts of different topics. Joe hopes to talk about whether we're living in a computer simulation or how one can cope when philosophy demolishes just one piece too many of our common sense.

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