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Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)
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Effect of Altruism
There's a relentless focus on whether this is in fact the best use of your resources. And even though there's this evidence backed r i guess the relationship to evidence back is that maybe if you're really focused on that, then you're really sort of obsessed with figuring out whether the thing you're doing is in fact going to have the effect you think it will. So like really foregrounding being evidence back is like giving people a bit of a red herring. But we're thinking of evidence in this broader way than what is most commonly used. In common sense, when people talk about, what's the evidence fof this, they're referring to some kind of more objective thing.
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