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Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)

80,000 Hours Podcast

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You Make Someone's Life a Tiny Bit Better?

If that first premise is just false, let's say the best things are only like one % better than the average thing, then it's already not important. But that in practice, no one seems to hold that position. The thing that's more realistic is to just be a bit unenthused about all three. Yets i almoyt note that effect fachism is wrong. It's just that it's uninteresting, right? Then, ye, i wouldn't need to be its own thing. Its just, ya, we're like, already doing it. So like, maybe, hopefully, some day, it will be the case that the third premise, yes

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