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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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The Future Is Coming Quite Soon, but What Can We Do About It?

If we take cluelessness quite seriously, if we try to put that hat on, i suppose, what could we then do? And it seems like one approach would be to say, i'm going to bank on the idea that a really crucial time is coming quite soon. I sos you have unintended consequences there, even when yu're just operating normal life, but they might not be so grim as trying to crate a series of consequences that play out over hundreds of thousands of years. Another approach might be to follow bostrom in his presentation on this from back in two thousand 14 or something. He was basically saying, lessness is this really big problem, but what we need

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