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When should an Effective Altruist be vegetarian? | Meteuphoric
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Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh on FHI and CSER. AI Impacts →. When should an Effective Altruist be vegetarian? November 21, 2014. I have lately noticed several people wondering why more Effective Altruists. Are not vegetarians. I am personally not a vegetarian because I don’t think it is an effective way to be altruistic. Stopped after ‘the developing world exists, or at least has a high probability of doing so’. I think this fairly large difference between my and many vegetarians’ guesses at the value of veg...
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Why do all the considerations point the same way? | Meteuphoric
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Dance dance evaluation →. Why do all the considerations point the same way? March 18, 2015. Suppose you have a lot of reasons to believe a thing, and no good reasons to not believe it. Should this make you more or less likely to believe it, relative to a case where the considerations are a bit more mixed? At first glance, it appears you should believe it more, since things with lots of good reasons for them and no reasons against them tend to be true. On the other hand, often you have lots of aligned rea...