Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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

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Apr 12, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
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How to Reason Through Difficult Questions
02:16 • 5min
3
How to Get More Happy Thoughts Everyday?
06:56 • 2min
4
Is There a Value for Its Own Sake?
08:38 • 2min
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Are You a Conservative or a Liberal?
10:22 • 2min
6
What Are the Differences Between Universal and None Universal Values?
12:33 • 2min
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What Do Inte Rial Values Really Mean?
14:57 • 2min
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How to Find Your Own Intrinsic Values
17:00 • 2min
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Do You Think That Money Is Inherently Valuable?
18:47 • 2min
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Learning for Its Own Sake
20:20 • 3min
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The Human Brain Doesn't Clearly Differ Between Value and Integrity
23:03 • 6min
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I'm Going on Vacation, I'll Value My Own Wealtare Mo Ham It
28:34 • 3min
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The Best World Is Just Hook Aryone Up to Happiness Machine in Riting
31:24 • 3min
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Human Brains Have Multiple Integrative Values
33:55 • 2min
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Are You Over Confident?
35:56 • 2min
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Are You Over Confident?
37:31 • 3min
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The Martial Arts One Lines Up Pretty Well
40:13 • 2min
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Are You Confident?
42:21 • 2min
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The Five Trades That Were Able to Discover
44:07 • 3min
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Is There a Myth About Spinach?
46:38 • 2min
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How Much Should You Change Your Belief Based on Evidence?
48:25 • 4min
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Do You Work With Odds or Opponents?
52:04 • 3min
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Is It Subject of Judgment?
54:43 • 5min
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What Is the Base Factor?
59:20 • 3min
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When Should We Trust Common Sense?
01:02:20 • 3min
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Are You Good at Reading Social Information?
01:04:54 • 4min
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The Fallacy of Aggregation
01:08:44 • 2min
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Is There a Replica of Power Posing?
01:10:27 • 3min
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Is It a Small Effect?
01:13:49 • 2min
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Do You Believe That Possibility Can Affect Mood?
01:15:43 • 3min
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How to Optimize a Reference Class?
01:18:47 • 3min
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How Long Will It Take You to Finish a Project?
01:21:54 • 2min
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Do You Have a Planning Fallacy?
01:23:58 • 2min
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Predicting the Future With Models and Theories
01:25:38 • 2min
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Using Multiple Models to Predict a Thing
01:27:48 • 2min
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Is There Evidence That Chocolate Reduces or Improves Cardiovascular Health?
01:29:25 • 2min
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Is the Base Factor a Hundred?
01:31:18 • 2min
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Qualitative Frameworks Can Be Used to Destimate Things
01:33:36 • 3min
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Is There a Difference Between a Number and Nothing?
01:36:26 • 3min
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How Many Presidents Have Colluded With Foreign Powers?
01:39:00 • 2min
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Is He a Russa Colluder?
01:40:40 • 2min
42
The Probability of China and the United States Going to War in the 20th Century
01:42:11 • 2min
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What's the Bas Factor of War?
01:43:58 • 2min
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Are They Going to Give Up Their Nuclear Weapons?
01:45:46 • 2min
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The Right Model Isn't Quite the Right Model
01:47:40 • 3min
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Is There a Base Factor in Sugar?
01:50:50 • 2min
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Is the Diet Change the Cause of the Arthritis Going Away?
01:53:13 • 2min
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How to Estimate the Odds of a Trump Being Reelected?
01:55:03 • 2min
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Can You Beat the Production Market?
01:57:15 • 2min
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I Think the Effect Size of the Study Goes Up, and the Probability of a Real Result Goes Down.
01:58:51 • 2min
51
Liquid Prediction Markets
02:00:34 • 2min
52
Is This Really a Fraud?
02:02:10 • 2min
53
Faith Healer
02:03:47 • 2min
54
Is It Really That Unforgivable?
02:05:47 • 3min
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Do You Feel Better Now?
02:08:31 • 3min
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Is This Really a Dodgy Company?
02:11:26 • 2min
57
Is There a Smoke Detector Alarm?
02:13:06 • 2min
58
The Importance of Rethinking Your Expectations
02:15:20 • 2min