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#48 - Brian Christian on better living through the wisdom of computer science

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Exploration Puzzles - How to Set the Time Horizon

How we set the time horizon might not be as intuitive as it first seems. And so that actually might mean your kind of exploration budget is quite a bit lower than it would naively seem. One of the things that i feel is true in human life that is absent from almost all these problems is that your utility function is on some kind of a drift where when you're 50, youre just going to care about different stuff.

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