Eight: Prof Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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Is There a Moral Weight to the Person Affecting You?
Luk: How do people who support the person affecting te end up dealing with cases where we expect that there, that there will be people like you? Kno, i i'm deafly going to have a child. They don't exist yet, and then i could do something now that will make this child ike, have a better life,. But they're not alive to day. Luk: If you're strongly committed to the person affecting you were like, only people who are alive right now matter he ywould have to say, no thit's like nothing that you could do now that could benefit your future child would be morally good. That is o al presentest theory.
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