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Six: Ajeya Cotra on worldview diversification and how big the future could be

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Doomsday Argument Or Simulation Argument?

Pascal: I want a de bunking explanation that makes the world seem more sensible. Even if i didn't think it was superplausible that future people would want to run a simulation of something as boring as this podcast, i'm going tohave ig tav ayor i independently have reason to think, atthey, the they are. You could have different arguments in favour of the simulation argument. We could imagine ourselves simulating our past for whatever reason. It just takes like, a pretty small fraction. And it's quite hard to say that my probability on non trivial amounts of simulation is anywhere in the range of one or two thousand persons in the big, long term future.

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