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Nine: Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Is There a Moral Incertincy Argument?

In general, there's an argument for moderation. And i think one big thing is just, like, not doing things that seem like, clearly wrong from a common sense point of view. We're also probably not inclined to take the disagreement of other o, other people in the world as seriously enough or kind of tend to just go without withour gat judgment. So basically, i should just like, put equal weight on their viewers as on my own. That's almost a fourth argument, it seems like, which is are something along the lines of, like, apistemically humble as they should be.

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