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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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Qualitative Frameworks Can Be Used to Destimate Things

i think there is a role for qualitative herestics in som some cases, yes. Another kind of evident evidence that's worth mentioning is huristic. The human brain is a kind of predictive machine. And so one way to like reframing all this is not like, is this horistic accurate? Or is ta study accurate? But like, i think of myself as a productive machine. Am i a better productive machine when i have these tools, right?

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