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Two: Rachel Glennerster on global poverty

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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i think we need to rely a bit more on theory. Like theory tells you which things should go together, which thing should be important. And i think theory can be as an effective way of kind of looking at the data and pulling out patterns. I'm not saying you should never do them. I just then not the simple answer that people thought they were. Ok, how about reading the news or the newspaper? So reading the news of the kind that you already support. We should be doing less of reading things that shock you out of your,. You know, hat that comes from an perspective, i think, is, you know, we don't do enough of.

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