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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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What's the Standard Approach to Moral Uncertainty?

The standard way people in the literature have tended to think about the problem of appropriate action under moral uncertainty is basically to just help them. Soff the shelf to the standard way of thinking ofo action under uncertainty in general, that is, maximis some conception of value. But there's been this desire for an approach to moral uncertainty that has a broader tent of theories that it can handle.

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