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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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Is There a Reason Why You Shouldn't Work on Climate Change

Tyler cowan argues that economic growth is, in fact, the sort of best thing we can do for the common good. Cowan: Even if something were so neglected that literally nobody in else in the world was working on it, i would still think that even though it'd be really hard to make progress, you'd probably still make a really big difference. He says this could end up just turning out that ya should still fox on the very most neglected things.

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