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 the Effect of Altruism Doing More Basic Research?
Academics plea, ah, that a, we know whatever the're looking into. Who can say how ill be usefulsa, kind of orl basic research,. it is useful, and they should just do whatever they are most interested in. Yet, deother aview on whether we should be doing cutting more of this kind of basic exploratory research, where the vallue isn't clear? Or more applied research,where the value is very clear. I mean, it depends partly on who we is. But perhaps, like th the the upper tail is is more cut off yet.
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