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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 Newcan Problem - Is There Any Backward Causation?

There's no backward causation in this story. Y, nothing. People often feel the newcan problem involve some something massively science fictional. But it's really quite mondane. It doesn't involve any special powers ye. Theorist's story sounds less intuitively plausible, but i'm not sure why that's the case. To my intuition, the evidential decision is to stop smoking.

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