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

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Imagine that humanity has two possible futures ahead of it: Either we’re going to have a huge future like that, in which trillions of people ultimately exist, or we’re going to wipe ourselves out quite soon, thereby ensuring that only around 100 billion people ever get to live.

If there are eventually going to be 1,000 trillion humans, what should we think of the fact that we seemingly find ourselves so early in history? If the future will have many trillions of people, the odds of us appearing so strangely early are very low indeed.

If we accept the analogy, maybe we can be confident that humanity is at a high risk of extinction based on this so-called ‘doomsday argument‘ alone.

There are many critics of this theoretical ‘doomsday argument’, and it may be the case that it logically doesn’t work. This is why Ajeya Cotra — a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy — spent time investigating it, with the goal of ultimately making better philanthropic grants.

In this conversation from 2021, Ajeya and Rob discuss both the doomsday argument and the challenge Open Phil faces striking a balance between taking big ideas seriously, and not going all in on philosophical arguments that may turn out to be barking up the wrong tree entirely.

Full transcript, related links, and summary of this interview

This episode first broadcast on the regular 80,000 Hours Podcast feed on January 19, 2021. Some related episodes include:

  • #45 – Prof Tyler Cowen's stubborn attachments to maximising economic growth, making civilization more stable & respecting human rights
  • #40 – Katja Grace on forecasting future technology & how much we should trust expert predictions.
  • #42 – Amanda Askell on moral empathy, the value of information & the ethics of infinity
  • #3 – Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill
  • #41 – David Roodman on incarceration, geomagnetic storms, & becoming a world-class researcher
  • #10 – Dr Nick Beckstead on how to spend billions of dollars preventing human extinction
  • #62 – Paul Christiano on messaging the future, increasing compute, & how CO2 impacts your brain.

Series produced by Keiran Harris.

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Rob Wiblin, Keiran Harris and 80,000 Hours and The 80000 Hours team에서 제공하는 콘텐츠입니다. 에피소드, 그래픽, 팟캐스트 설명을 포함한 모든 팟캐스트 콘텐츠는 Rob Wiblin, Keiran Harris and 80,000 Hours and The 80000 Hours team 또는 해당 팟캐스트 플랫폼 파트너가 직접 업로드하고 제공합니다. 누군가가 귀하의 허락 없이 귀하의 저작물을 사용하고 있다고 생각되는 경우 여기에 설명된 절차를 따르실 수 있습니다 https://ko.player.fm/legal.

Imagine that humanity has two possible futures ahead of it: Either we’re going to have a huge future like that, in which trillions of people ultimately exist, or we’re going to wipe ourselves out quite soon, thereby ensuring that only around 100 billion people ever get to live.

If there are eventually going to be 1,000 trillion humans, what should we think of the fact that we seemingly find ourselves so early in history? If the future will have many trillions of people, the odds of us appearing so strangely early are very low indeed.

If we accept the analogy, maybe we can be confident that humanity is at a high risk of extinction based on this so-called ‘doomsday argument‘ alone.

There are many critics of this theoretical ‘doomsday argument’, and it may be the case that it logically doesn’t work. This is why Ajeya Cotra — a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy — spent time investigating it, with the goal of ultimately making better philanthropic grants.

In this conversation from 2021, Ajeya and Rob discuss both the doomsday argument and the challenge Open Phil faces striking a balance between taking big ideas seriously, and not going all in on philosophical arguments that may turn out to be barking up the wrong tree entirely.

Full transcript, related links, and summary of this interview

This episode first broadcast on the regular 80,000 Hours Podcast feed on January 19, 2021. Some related episodes include:

  • #45 – Prof Tyler Cowen's stubborn attachments to maximising economic growth, making civilization more stable & respecting human rights
  • #40 – Katja Grace on forecasting future technology & how much we should trust expert predictions.
  • #42 – Amanda Askell on moral empathy, the value of information & the ethics of infinity
  • #3 – Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill
  • #41 – David Roodman on incarceration, geomagnetic storms, & becoming a world-class researcher
  • #10 – Dr Nick Beckstead on how to spend billions of dollars preventing human extinction
  • #62 – Paul Christiano on messaging the future, increasing compute, & how CO2 impacts your brain.

Series produced by Keiran Harris.

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