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Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)
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The Importance of Effective Altruism
There's some qualitative arguments to help make it plausible. One is just the question of what your priors should be. It's cause, like, we can't have come in with lit, well, what should our prior be? Should we expect it's possible to do way more to help the common good than we might have first thought? Or should we be sceptical of these examples that i just brought up, and whether we might be able to find other examples them? And yes, also, it's not just like what everyone's doing otherwise. But then if you would disagree with our analysis, and you disagree, like every case that we might bring, then that's another way
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