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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 Probability a Problem in the Multivers Theory?

i don't think that considerations of probability generate any difficulty whatsoever for the multivers theory. i had a quite embarrassing period of maybe two or three years where people would ask me what i was working on, because i felt like the only answer i had available was not appropriate to my level of seniority since i was already tenured. So in that sense, it's kind of tricky. But i think of its something that you really want to do, and if you're willing to bear with that fallow period,. And if, in addition, you're confident, or may be arrogant enough to have this kind of brazen belief that your success is not localized to one area of academiYou

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