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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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Introduction

This is effective achism. And introduction from 80 thousand hours, a collection of ten episodes designed to bring you up to speed on how people in the effective achist community think. The general idea is that the impacts we have on future generations are extremely important and perhaps the main thing that we should focus on if we want to greatly improve the world. We discuss the justification and implications of this across population, ethics, economics, government and more. This is probably our most important and distinctive position at 80 thousand hours. Without the ideas in this one, so much of the rest of our advice is going to be a little confusing.

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