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Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life

80,000 Hours Podcast

CHAPTER

The Future of Altruism

i suspect that effective altruism will be bigger but not huge in the coming decades. i should have started listening to audiobooks sooner as an undergraduate, and I'm still concerned about how it could go badly with artificial intelligence. bitcoin would be pretty good and then sell it at the end of 2017 according to your teenage self. The invention of artificial intelligence or like a general artificial intelligence at human level is "a very significant driver of the future of human civilization"

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