The Inside View

10. Peter Wildeford on Forecasting

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Show Notes

Peter is the co-CEO of Rethink Priorities, a fast-growing non-profit doing research on how to improve the long-term future. On his free time, Peter makes money in prediction markets and is quickly becoming one of the top forecasters on Metaculus. We talk about the probability of London getting nuked, Rethink Priorities and why EA should fund projects that scale.

Check out the video and transcript here: https://theinsideview.github.io/peter

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