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10 Post author: Gondolinian 01 May 2015 05:28PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 03 May 2015 04:05:16PM 3 points [-]

Yes depending on how you define "meaningful". If you can speed up a cure for cancer by 1 day, or increase the chance of us getting a cure next year by 1 in a million then the expected value of this increase in terms of human welfare is huge compared to what most people manage to accomplish in their life.