peter_hurford comments on Another Critique of Effective Altruism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: peter_hurford 05 January 2014 08:36:50PM 2 points [-]

The goal is to get direct impact by doing high-impact research.

One concern is that high-impact research is hard to come by. But it's definitely a possibility (and one that 80K has acknowledged in many places)! What kind of research are you looking in?