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 Problem or Is It Just a Question of Credence?
Each of our most trivial actions, like clicking a finger or deciding whether to cross a road, is going to have significant effect on the far future in ways that we are completely unable to predict. So if i decide to help somebody across the road, and then i slightly change the timing of everything else that person does n during their day, including changing the timing of interactions at that son has with all the other people that they may or may not er meet during the rest of their day. Eventually, these causal links are going to reach out to people who ere destined to conceive a child on the day in question. And if i make it the case that that child is conceived a few fractions
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