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Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Arguments for Long Termism Versus Globe Health and Well Being

Long termism vs globe health and well being is one of the most well worn debates with ineffective altruism. I want to spend some time letting you elaborate on the arguments in favour of people who are listening, perhaps lik going into careers that benefit globar glo halth and wore being rather than things that are doing more unusual, long termist work. But i'm not at all interested in talking people out of, like, spending their an atruism. The world hasi in sort of a crazy place that people don't understand and appreciate our position in the world or how big the future could be. And so id get a lot of value from seeing tor more concrete impacts on

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