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Nine: Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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The Future Is Amazing, Like, Isn't It?

CNN's John Sutter takes a look at some of the ways in which the world has gone worse over the last couple of hundred years. He asks whether we should try to make sure that things like factory farming and nuclear war don't continue into the future. The author concludes by saying, "The key thing is just, ultimately, could there be either, like, better futures, or much worse futures?"

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