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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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I've Changed My Mind About GPI Research

G p i has only existed for a year. Are there any areas where your researches caused you to change your mind? I think it's just super early days. In philosophy, the picture is already reasonably positive. A lot of very good moral philosophers are at least sympathetic to the basic ideas of effective altruism. But in economics, we've found it much harder to find people who are already doing that or even people who sound like their to do it any time soon.

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