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Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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The Fallacy of Aggregation

There seems to be all these surprising ways and like, where the first order effect is in a certain way. And so we just have really hard time believing that that's not the way the final effect goes. Ye, i think ts often clled the fallacy of aggregation. All right, what's whats thedifferent domain? Im like human social psychology, the kind of thing that you're studying. So, human ps psychology, that' interesting one, because for a lot of us, we actually have pretty good intuition about a bunch of things about psychology.

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