Effective Altruism and Global Health

Toby i alluded to this topic earlier in our conversation, but as a lot of people have shifted their focus, like you from near term issues like poverty and disease to the project of trying to promote humanity's super long term flourishing. Toby: It does concern me it's definitely a downsihd of focusing on an area where the kind of feedback loops or the ability to get really solid evidence is much less. We use the tools of effective altruism to select a this idea that we should really strive to protect humanity's long term future and avoid these these exestential risks. But then within that area, it's harder too to think that you can systematically do better than who are trying