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Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Cluster Thinking vs Sequence Thinking

Clusser thinking is not giving tons of weight to a single argument, no matter how powerful it would seem if it was right. So preferring to have many somewhat compelling arguments than just one really compelling calculation that seems good. This might explain why sort of people might not want to go all in a montremison or care about these separate from montremous kinds of philosophical problems. In terms of what i think is the min motivation. Fili, why do people work and ol hath in well being? I still think the main motivation is the object level case of preventing people suffering.

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