Effective altruism began, as expensive trouble often does, with a lovely idea, but the lovely idea is not where the story starts. The story starts with a man at a table saying there is something like a ten to twenty-five percent chance that the future goes really, really badly, and at one point a nice…
Tag: Betting
Social Construction
You walk into a situation and you think you are entering reality. A work meeting. A date. Some social event where everyone is holding a drink and pretending they are not nervous. But most of the time you are not walking into reality at all. You are walking onto a set. A lot of what…