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When thinking about how to do the most good, or best to ‘contribute to the world’, we face massive uncertainties which are hard to integrate with the formal decision-theoretic approaches typically used in Effective Altruism.
Jonah shows how recent work in the cognitive science of rationality - in particular John Vervaeke’s work on the notion of wisdom as integrating formal rationality and relevance realisation - offers insight here, and suggests a more integral approach he calls ‘Wise Altruism’.
This talk is an accessible summary of Jonah’s recent substack post, which offers a more in-depth view:
