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

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Why Fiction Writers Can Make Up Examples?

I think it's very hard as a reader fundamentally for your brain to distinguish between things that just read in fiction that are not real at an instinctive level and things that have actually happened. So there's plenty of examples of people writing books that kind of have very bad messages. I guess fortunately most of the time fiction authors are like good people and they try to improve the world. But I think that people should be like cautious about what fiction they read.

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