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#81 Classic episode - Ben Garfinkel on scrutinising classic AI risk arguments

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Is There a Reason to Think That the Industrial Revolution Might Change the World?

Just because something has some long run significance, doesn't necessarily mean that you can do much to sort of affect the trajectory. Do you have ideas at all for what our Industrial Revolution effective altruists would have tried to do? I think this is pretty unclear. Maybe just the institutions that were in place would have been very hard to change and just it was a little bit determined that we would go that way.

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