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Five: Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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We're Just the Antithesis of This Other Thing

I used to read articles in the mass metea about effective altruism, and i kind of had to stop just for my own health. I mean, so it's kind of half inevitable where, you know, ges are like light or something, and then the people in the media may be looking back. But we've definitely been making a bunch of pogrets. And if someone were actually to a, yeou now speak with co and i actually get up to speed with the articles, like 80 thousand hours have been leating, which have been excellent. We see that this kind of stereotype is just badly, badly misguided. It is. To give a sense of how bad

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