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Self-Improvement and Research Ethics (with Rob Wiblin)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Challenges of Thinking Experiments to Determine What You Value

"I'm very sympathetic to this critique in that I think it's actually quite difficult to do with the thought experiments to figure out what you value," he says. "You get this kind of misfiring because of the positive associations that people have about knowledge" He adds, "Maybe we're like secretly sneaking in our prediction that it's going to somehow be useful when we're trying to evaluate it"

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