Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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How Much Should You Change Your Belief Based on Evidence?
The way i like to think about this is actually using an english language phrase, tha that we like to call the question of evidence. We actally have a module clear thing dot org teaches you how to use the question of Evidence to value the strength of evidence. If it's just one, you know, y, you're as likely to see this evidence if your epo is true than it's false. That's no evidence. And then if it's one in three and one third, then that pushes you evidence in the opposite direction. This ties into the idea of basianism, which is sort of the mat probalistic, mathematical theory of how to how much to change
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