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Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Heuristic of Using Evidence and Reasons to Do the Most Good

I'm not goal directed in that way. What happened for me was really starting in the late 80s when I was a kid, starting to be aware of the internet and starting to get some sense that this was going to change the production of knowledge  and might perhaps create an opportunity. But even it was just intuition in the sense of I didn't have a logical argument at the time. It was a judgment call. That's such a foreign point of view to me. Creative work doesn't work that way. You don't know what you're going to get out until years later.

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