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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How Important Is It That People Are Integratively Motivated to Answer These Questions?
People are intrinsically motivated to answer these questions because they think they are morally important. So a lot of people are drawn to doing parisan gog friday's research. People who find that the thing they find motivating and satisfying is having a relatively quick turnover of projects tar they're doing, and then objectives achieved. There an like, clear signals you can get that you should just kind of give up. Bt, they should like to sa, oh, i axly not going to become a research or, i should do something else. A pretty bad idea is to consult your own feelings about how good it would be for you to work in this field.
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