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#152 – Joe Carlsmith on navigating serious philosophical confusion

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Dark Side of Being an Ant

"I think the thing that kind of runs through my head is I'm like reading stuff is just like existence is such a joke. Like, you know, insects that are that are created, they're just like, they have no concept of what they are," he said. "There's a dark angle to that, which is like just feeling this kind of loss of agency." He says we should try to get our civilization to a less ant-like state when we're better able to deal with these questions.

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