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Rob Wiblin on how he ended up the way he is

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Importance of Being a Contrarian

Ingrid and Derek, if you're listening to this, we've already spoken of the most important parts. And now we can move on to the less important stuff. So I actually wanted to use this opportunity to tell you how important you were in shaping my worldview. Because that's probably not something that I probably think to discuss over a BM. You guys quite early on started talking about vegetarianism or other kind of leftist causes effectively, which is kind of normal for young kids. And I recall recoiling from most of it; I just thought most of it was totalbullying. But then obviously, we were more formed as we're kind of into university, where you were the

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