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Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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Is There a Moral Uncertainty Between Theories?
Lokit: Many people feel like their welfare level over all this is fairly close to zero, butk, you know, mildly positive. Lokit: I think once you start talking about torture in your life, thenything like, it brings in kind of other moral intuitions aboutlike, have very bad experiences,. might be very hard hard to outweigh. He says we should be somewhat uncertain ourselves and weigh up different theories given diferent credences attached to them. But there are two sensible things one can do here, not not mutually exclusive - find situations where there's a lot at stake according to one theory than there is according to another.
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