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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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Making a Difference Impartially

If there's some chance that now is an unusually important time in history, then maybe just the mistakes of our actions are really, really high. And if you want to maximise your impact, you should probably be doing something you enjoy do sustainably. You need to treat yourself with some compassion, realize that, like, we're not perfectly moral, and wegen like not be able toe always do teran o, like abstract best thing. It would be pretty astonishing if there was like no way ta anyone could untill i do a lot of good to help other people.

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