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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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The Challenges for Academic Research Institutes

Upswells are absolutely crucial for the successive academic research institutes. Without them, people who are nominally hired to do the research end up having just about all their time sucked up by other stuff. So if you've got a division of labour between researchers and ops work then it can be vastly more productive. The institute is also running a summer research visitors programm next year.

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