You're still trying to answer the question of "what is the most useful knowledge I can pass down to 1400". That's a different question.
Here all you can do is say "You should put your money in X" and no, you can't explain why X is important. "Build more lighthouses" is a valid answer, yes, but doesn't that imply that EA should be concerned with the success of commerce?
Here all you can do is say "You should put your money in X" and no, you can't explain why X is important.
That's not the prompt--the prompt is:
If you taught the principles of effective altruism to a rich person in (say) 1400, what would they have thought was the most effective thing to do with their money?
But what are the "principles of effective altruism"? If they're something like "use science to determine which charitable opportunities best achieve your values," then we can't teach them to a rich person in 1400 withou...
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