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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Can effective altruism be redeemed?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Open Philanthropy: Worldview Diversification

At Open Philanthropy, they use a method that's called worldview diversification to decide how to divvy up money to different causes. The basic idea of world view diversification is that it's kind of comes back to this vagueness of the question, what does it mean to do the most good? They're intellectual frameworks that have radically different conclusions. And in my view, a natural way to dispute numbers is by having people who think in completely different ways and not speaking the same language.

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