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the most intermediate progress along the way

That's obviously overcoming bias. Ideology is large scale. Overcoming bias is useful for the individual.

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At a casual analysis, it seems to me that combating evil ideologies would prevent almost all war and some poverty, but overcoming bias generally would also do that as well as eliminating almost all or all remaining poverty, disease, environmental problems, and far more.

But then there's the question of which would be easier to accomplish... and which would offer the most intermediate progress along the way. I could be convinced that combating evil ideologies is an easier way to do good in the world, compared to overcoming bias...

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