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Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Is There a Smoke Detector Alarm?

i like to give the bend for the doubt, even if they're making some missteps in the logic, there might still be something there. i've tried to have a kind of smoke detector alarm that goes off when certain kind of bad arguments are made. And so you can actually o, i think it can be more helpful, o say, what's the best thing about this idea? Not, you know, are there flaws in thea ways being presented to me? Yes.

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