Eight: Prof Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions
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The Long Term Effects Aren't Going to Cancel Out
The argument is typically made that this is an argument in favour of doing something that has like, positive near term effects. So what do these people think about? And say, funding bednet on agan, they think that this is good by risk of russion lives o this by risk oversion perspective. But i don't think there's any reason to think that ethe the long run stuff is going to cancel out. I mean, it's very unclear what it is going to do, but pretty sure it's not going to cancel mer ye. It suts, it's only a drop in the bucket.
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