The Importance of Imagining

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Imagine a house right now. Try to see it as clearly in your mind as you can. Did that color? It may have had like a purple-ish roof. Like almost like you were seeing it? Well, this is where I get I get tripped up because it's like on the one hand, there was something it was like to be having the the to be imagining the house. So you're not yourself. It goes on to you. You're telling me. There's like experiences involved.

What is 80,000 Hours? What sorts of people should become entrepreneurs? How can you run cheap experiments on yourself? What are some beneficial modes of philosophical thinking?

Arden Koehler is a researcher and writer at 80,000 Hours, a nonprofit whose mission is to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems, and an active member of the effective altruism community. Arden has a PhD in philosophy from New York University, with a specialisation in ethics and attitudes toward time, and a B.A. in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley. You can check out her work at 80,000 Hours, and you can email her at arden@80000hours.org.

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