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Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Complexity of Human Values

People tend to communicate about the same amount of information in any kind of given minute, no matter what language they're speaking. But people can understand speech much faster than they can speak. And so now that we have this ability to just take people talking and then double the speed, we could potentially absorb like twice as much conversation as we've ever been able to do historically. That's really cool. One minor caveat though is sometimes when I'm listening at 3X for a little while, and I try to have a conversation with a normal human, I have this like weird effect. It's something that you would expect to happen.

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