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Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics
80,000 Hours Podcast
The Importance of Thinking Experiments
I think we can learn about ourselves from thought experiments so if you view them as like experiments on yourself then you know your response to that experiment should be teaching you a psychological fact even if the thought experiment is very hard to do. It's always funny when you have these thought experiments like there's absolutely no way a human can do that that experiments like okay imagine your slug but also your omniscient and you're trying to make a decision for eternity and it's just like okayYeah I mean it's just obvious why like your instinctive response to that is going to get polluted by all kinds of other factors that your brain likes can't get rid of.
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