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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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Is It Worth It for Everyone to Show Up to the Protest?

i think that we do pretty well just with this fairly common sense way of approaching it and thinking about or largish groups of people, sometimes that would be a the wider effect of altruism movement. But even if we just go with this question, it wis harder to think about version, where we're tinking about what could i do as an individual? You know, could i, edont realistically make this massive difference? Could any individual do that? That sets a ridiculous standard to set onow terms of a high bar, you know, for getting off the sofa or something. I so i ultimately, we're talking about some pretty small chances. But at critical moments in human

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