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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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Is There a Difference Between the Long Ttem Fund and the E a Global Health Fund?

Sojest an argument against efficiency, yes. If you thought about it a lot and lie really tried to estimate the likelihood of these things concretely, then it's like, maybe you could get a pretty big edge there. I should say, hat those groups of people were probably selected for being more interested in long termism. So th that maybe has a bias in favour of the long termist direction. Even if there was only a factor of a hundred difference in effectiveness between issues, that would be an absolutely crucial consideration for choosing a career. But i think we also see people who kind of intellectually agree that maybe there are these large differences, but then when it comes to actuly

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