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 Long Term Ism Paradime
"We've had people working more or less full time on g pi issues. We're interested in what it looks like when you make the strongest case you can for that claim, and then also how rigorous can we make the arguments about what follows from that claim?" "There's an interesting open question where effective altruists really don't know, and don't even think they know, what the answer is," he says. 'It seems plausible that the tools of various academic disciplines might be brought to bear to give some guidance'
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