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Two: Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Is This a Neglected Problem?

i think you can actually now challenge the sufficient market idea quite successfully here, and to bunk it and show why this could still be happening. And then on top of that, i should say that i've talked to government about these things, to many people, a in the british government, and they ave all basically said the same thing - wow, this sounds like really serious stuff. You know, it was crearly the most interesting meeting, ha, theyd had all week. But that they didn't have time to think about it. They had to go back to dealing with the kind of fires that need to be put out. It's very difficult to get different

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