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Stuart Armstrong & Robin Hanson: Iterate The Game | Gaming the Future Chapter 10

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The Descriptive and Prescriptive Question

We're in a position of tremendous uncertainty about how the future will unfold. There's one part of the probability mass that says no matter what we do, the future turns out wonderful and it doesn't so much matterwhat we do. And then there's another part of the Probability Mass that says things are so terrible they don't make any difference at all. We don't know whether we're in one of those two worlds, or we're somewhere in the middle, where what we do matters. Eno: Rather than make up your own favorite world, ask what's the most likely world that's inemitable?

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