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Rob Wiblin on how he ended up the way he is

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Unique Pathway to Altruism

I think I got incredibly lucky that's kind of the set of odd philosophical views that I'd been advocating for, like as a teenager and at university. That started gaining some momentum and gaining public credibility at right at the time that my career was starting. And it needed people who could explain those ideas to a broader audience in a compelling way. Like, very few of the certainly, at least of the core ideas, things that I've come up with, but I think I do have a good eye for like noticing which ideas out of like a stew in a community are kind of particularly interesting.

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