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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 Most Important Moral Consequences of Our Actions

The most important moral consequences of our actions are the impacts that they have like more than a hundred years into the future, says dustrete. The first observation will be that many philosophical views imply that the welfare of people in the future is at least unimportant consideration. And potentially another thing is that the lives of people inthe future could be a whole lot better than the now. In particular, just ecause the stakes are sutentially so large, it coulda well be the dominating consideration.

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