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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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The Value of Effective Altruism

GP: We think there'll be a lot of value generated if we can take ideas that we know and understand, but have never really written up properly. It seems like some people are smewhat sceptical about the value of publishing ideas you think 'v aredy had' But i'd like to flag the other character anyway. The other character is, we also think there are a lot of questions where we are really genuinely, quite radically unsure what the answer is,. And we want to try and find out that answer by this process of careful discussion.

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