Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ)
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The Spider Man Principle - If You Could Just Kill Baby Hitler
Sinai: There would be some kind of eternal, horrible punishment for holding power and not having a very high degree of epistemic rationality. If that were widely believed by people of power, i think there would be a lot more effort to actually double checkat what they're doing really makes sense. Sinai: Any time there's likea small number of power hungry people where there's at least a moderate risk that they're eventually going to do what they want, just to go and kill them peremptively is a tough one.
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