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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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Long Termism vs Health and Well Being

In a nutshell, long termism is the idea that we should mostly think about what impact those actions are going to have quite far in the future. It could get hard of er for some stuff that won't pay off for a very long time, or is perhaps the the most speculative. And so maybe there's this kind of middle ground in between the most philosophical, perhaps, andn the most out there long term of stuff, and then perhaps the more sensible. I was just going to say that iam very, like a sot of my own protectible ness, which is more personal than professional isthat,. But i'm very sympathetic the idea that ethical value is distributed that

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