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#0 - Effective Altruism, X-risk, (e/acc)

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Lulie asks physicist David Deutsch about the epistemology of Effective Altruism, how to make progress given the unpredictability of knowledge, and whether we should be concerned about existential risk. In the second half, she asks about Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) – specifically, is its thermodynamic physics legit? TWITTER Lulie Tanett: @reasonisfun David Deutsch: @DavidDeutschOxf Feat. @BasedBeffJezosDiscuss this episode on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonisfun/status/1649904006418890754

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