Ajeya Cotra joins us to talk about thinking clearly in a rapidly changing world.

Learn more about the work of Ajeya and her colleagues: https://www.openphilanthropy.org

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:44 The default versus the accelerating picture of the future

04:25 The role of AI in accelerating change

06:48 Extrapolating economic growth

08:53 How do we know whether the pace of change is accelerating?

15:07 How can we cope with a rapidly changing world?

18:50 How could the future be utopian?

22:03 Is accelerating technological progress immoral?

25:43 Should we imagine concrete future scenarios?

31:15 How should we act in an accelerating world?

34:41 How Ajeya could be wrong about the future

41:41 What if change accelerates very rapidly?