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Two: Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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The Health Care System Saves a Lot of Lives

I think one earspect is that it just das to get very abstract. Aand often when things aree more abstract and less concrete, a, we start to say some pretty strange things. I think its getting too abstract for them. And also, those conversations at the pub normally don't really matter. It's not that someone's going to implement the thing that they said. Maybe we use it more as opportunity to ar, to say something clever sounding, or toa, to express some of our values,. rather than to actually push for the things that are clearly of value.

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