Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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Is It Possible to Improve Decision Making in the Long Term?
i think by the time you're doing something as broad as just try to improve education or wisdom across a broad swath of the population in general, then it does really seem like its convergion. I guess among serioslong termiss who have tried doing things that arerelated to decision making and judgment, mostly they have posically, this happened because people got excited about the tat lock forecasting work. But then people have struggled to find other stuff within decision make improving societyor prudence, that also seems both tractable and likely to affect the long time future in particular. And i'm having a hardti buying the story where that is preventing the apocalypse.
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