Ten: Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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The Argument for Effective Altruism Is That We Are Too Irrational
effectachism is the claim of something like, what we need to do is apply systematic reasoning to doing good. So if you think over the last 200 years, people who arek educated and living in rich countries have become way wealthier than almost anyone in human history. And just being in that really privileged position should mean that there are things we can do to help others to a big degree. There's also a kind of long termist version of this argument, where if i was a mediaeval peasant, i'm not causing climate change. I can't start o help to start a nuclear war because these things are justike, not technologically possible. Whereas as citizens of nuclear powers to day
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