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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Why You Shouldn't Precommit to a Decision Theory
Pre committing to follow decision theory x is not the same action as doing the thing that's recommended by theory, acts at some later time. Its rational to precommit to evidential decision theory. That thas thas completely consistent. Yes? S so i find all this a little bit er confusing a but i guess i don't quite understand, i'm what people still find interesting here. But i guess if you're programming an a e, maybe this sleck comes up a lot because you'retrying to figure out,. like, what kind of lick, odd situations like this might arise the most.
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