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Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)

80,000 Hours Podcast

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I'm Imagining the Very First Person to Work on Climate Change

Tyler cowan argues that economic growth is, in fact, the sort of best thing we can do for the common good. He says people should focus on things like innovation and start-ups rather than just working hard to get a job. Talecoan: I think my intuition says that even if something were so neglected that literally nobody else in the world was working on it, you'd probably still make big difference.

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