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Ten: Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Do You Really Know What the Best Thing Is?

Common wisdom has come to think whatever priorities, in fact, is prioritizing, are the best things. And so we should probably defer to that and change our career a lot. But i'm just saying one kind of interesting avenue for attack seems to be a strong form of epistemic humility. Another kind of factor that pushes back is regression to the mean.

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