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#0 - Effective Altruism, X-risk, (e/acc)

Reason Is Fun

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The Importance of Knowledge in Altruism

In the overarching thing well there are different ways of being interested you may find the problem fascinating. It's about being interested in the result versus the actual problems it's like destination versus journey. Another thing that often happens is that people are interested in some final answer some final problem but they solve they end up solving a different one. Because they are actually working on specific problems even if they've got this sort of lofty goal. Yes from the idea that all evils are due to lack of knowledge it immediately I think leads you in a different direction from from effective altruism which is knowledge always begins with existing knowledge.

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