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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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Is It Better to Have People Be Richer and More Informed About the World?

Is it more valuable to have people be richer and healthier, or better informed about the world as a whole? Is there really ways of changing that meaningfully that particularly bear on how humanity goes in in the long time future? It's not that i think it's necessarily washed out. I just like the punitive connection with the long term impact is so weak as to be meaningless.

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