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
The Problem of Moral 'Clearlessness'
The problem of moral cluelessness is that we don't know what the long term effects are going to be. It's not an adequate answer to just say, yes, sure, there's uncertainty, so do expected value theory, and there's your answer. effective altrist face this predicament quite a lot in deciding whether to fund malarinets or d worming.
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