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On Background: Effective Altruism Still Has Friends

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

CHAPTER

The Effective Altruism Movement

I think it has altered the course of what I chose to study. It basically changed from some interesting computer science and machine learning and protein folding coming into college. I thought a more broad probability basis would be good for that. There is some reasonable limit you have to impose on yourself before you find yourself over optimizing to doing the most good.

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