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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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Is Long Termism a Thick Versus Thin Concept?

Long termism can be used to justify a lot of different kinds of work. But i get nervous when it feels like people aren't totally owning the degree to which it loads on, like, very specific views of bout li particularly. I'm not quite exactly sure what what the question is, but i suppose if humanity never creates machines that that are smarter than humans, and it seems like the stakes of the future are just potentially weway smaller. It would probably mean that we could never really leave the solar system.

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