Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedSam Bankman-Fried: belief
9 Mar 2022 Conversations with Tyler Sam Bankman-Fried on Arbitrage and Altruism
“I think that, more generally, even if it’s not framed in terms of thinking hard about numbers necessarily, there’s something very quantitative about how you view the world if you’re thinking about things from a utilitarian perspective, from a consequentialist perspective.”
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- Sam Bankman-Fried
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- 9 Mar 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…How does that affect your attitude toward arbitrage? Isn’t the trolley problem a kind of arbitrage? Yeah, I think that there is something there. I think that, more generally, even if it’s not framed in terms of thinking hard about numbers necessarily, there’s something very quantitative about how you view the world if you’re thinking about things from a utilitarian perspective, from a consequentialist perspective. There’s this really big notion of, in the end, you turn things into numbers, and you decide which number is the biggest. It might be really messy to get there, but that thought of trying to take a messy system and do the best things you can when ultimately you care about some quantitative property, even if you can never be sure that you’re calculating it right, you do the best you can. Both of your parents are famous law professors at Stanford. I actually knew who they each were. I just hadn’t known they were your parents.…
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