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

Reason Is Fun

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The Importance of Unknown Knowledge

Paul Erlich was making the same mistake as Malthus. He explicitly was extrapolating things like what knowledge of how to make crops better existed at the time of his prophecy into the future. People who are most creative in a field are inhibited from doing what is necessary to evangelize, he says.

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