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 (April 2021)
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Messiness and Hackiness in Practical Application
In principle, i don't think it's theo ically any messier than maximas expected moral value. The formulas you have to use to settle the intetheoretic comparisons are pretty messy in practical context. And the bargaining theory that i was looking into also ends at being messy, but in very similar ways. They're basically a pa as fussiness goes. But you face them on both kinds of approaches. So i think you're there.
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