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Ten: Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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The Difference Between Effective Altruism and the One That You Give

It's kind of weird to have a social movement that's about something as abstract as try to figure out and then do whatever it is actuaally is doing the most good in the world. I wonder if this is partly because so many social movements are about something more specific. And yet, just before we, like, can of go more into where this came from, i want to say it's like where this is most pronounced as, if you look at external coverage of a fact tism. So basically, like people who aren't kind of in the community writing about the community. If you want more details on this, will mc askell wrote this paper defining a altruism which

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