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Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
Is There a Difference Between a Number and Nothing?
People often advocate for them as kind of an air of protection. It avoids o giving too much weight to any one piece of evidence that you can just define very clearly and put a number on. We always try to compare it to something else, or give a sense of, like, hat does tis fit into the broader picture of other beliefsthat we have to see whether a a mistake somewhere. And i think this could potentially increase your practicabilities. Ye, sometimes putting a number on a thing, you know, we tend to the tri maximie, tha, number and nothing. That leads to weird, bad results where you know you're losing the bigger picture, like what
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