Evidence, cluelessness and the long term | Hilary Greaves
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Effective Altruism - Part Two
In part one, i talked about effectiveness, cost effectiveness and the importance of evidence. The point here was that altruism has to be effective - most well intentioned things don't work. And we have to pay attention to evidence if we want to know which or which works better than others. In part two, though, I talked about the limits of this, the limits of evidence, where evidence gives out and what it can't tell us about. Here i worried about the fact that evidence kind of necessarily only tracks relatively near term effects. We can only gather evidence on relatively short time scales. So actually, in my own case, the takehome message for this is we need
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