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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The Long Term Is Better to Work on Than Global Poverty
There's some theories under which long termism is ar exactly right and like a very important consideration. Other ones under which it's also probably not bad to work on, except inasmuch as you neglect the present. One of the things we'd like to do at g p i is to devote a lot more attention to er the question of what your views on long termism are likely to be if you deviate from the classical constellation of lexterio,. typical utilitarian views in one way or another.
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