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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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The Impartiality of Welfare

We're trying to treat everyone's interest as equal, then there's a question about what are people's interests like. And broadly, we say our kind of guess is that we should be roughly fixing on increasing welfare. We've actually found that these questions don't actually seem to make that much difference to our choice of problem areas. Of course, people r ging to potentially tingo value other things other than just like welfare, impartially considered. But i think almost everyone cares about doing good in thisk impartial way to some degree.

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