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Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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How to Optimize a Reference Class?

The standard story, i guess, si pipkinred and carnaman sae thinking fast and slow. The reference class is kind of an outside view, so youre takeng like a broader picture that's a bit less personal of the situation. And then you've got the inside view, which is like th kind of your personal perspective on it, or like this specific instance. Is like getting more is its reference class that's even more constrained. We think of thisin mathematics as like a bias for sparyand straight off a you as ou.

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