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#2 - David Spiegelhalter on risk, stats and improving understanding of science
80,000 Hours Podcast
The Challenge of Putting a Value on Human Life
The key idea behind effect or altruism is that we want to try and figure out which altruistic activities do the most good. But obviously, thesea many of these questions are incredibly difficult to answer. So a common criticism that we often get is people saying something like, oh, it's impossible to figure out which charities or careers do the mostgood so you're wasting yourself trying. Well, no, you can't measure that. You can have a good go. It's always a balance between trying your best realizing you're never going to be able to do it, but not to be put off having a good goes. We know this does not measure everything, but its explicit,
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