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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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Are We Doing Things a Little Bit Differently?

Yesso, a number of people who've worked a depi have said that it's quite different from other academic institutes. Yet, why? Why ou doing things a little bit differently in that in that respect? And is t is it paying off? I think there's a somewhat unhelpful culture er in philosophy, but probably in academia more generally, where to caricature it somewhat what people are centrally trying to do is look really smart and impressive.

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