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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

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Is There a Trick That's Going On?

There are interestingly different types of thing that would count as a life barely worth living. And it might make a big difference to somebody's intuitions about how bad the repugnant conclusion is which one of these they have in mind. But i think anotherthng that's going on is a people a kind of risk avers about these things. I feel like with therepuvent conclusion, what's going on psychologically is kind of an in inability to empathize with many different agents simultaneously.

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