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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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Do You Think That Money Is Inherently Valuable?

People don't make a careful distinction between intrinsic and non instrumental values. When you're learning, you may be doig soting, unproductive, but it feels productive. And that's actioly cind of like the worst kind of non productive activity rate. "i think i've made this mistake of viewing learning as goodof itself"

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