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UmamiSalami comments on The Growth of My Pessimism: Transhumanism, Immortalism, Effective Altruism. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: UmamiSalami 30 November 2015 09:35:06PM 0 points [-]

Thanks. I will give some of those articles a look when I have the chance. However, it isn't true that every activity is competitive in nature. Many projects are cooperative, in which case it's not necessarily a problem if you and other people are taking similar approaches and doing them well. We also shouldn't overestimate the competition and assume that they are going to be applying probabilistic reasoning, when in reality we can still outperform by applying basic rules of rationality.