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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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Is There a Restrictions to a Set of Possible Worlds?

Moral philosophers generally assume that a moral theory has to generate plausible results across all possible worlds. Some people want to push back on that and say it's enough if my theory generates plausible results in the actual world. So i think ther's a sensible discussion to be had about whether that kind of restriction is satisfying. But I take it, not really going to help any theory.

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