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Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Objections to Effect Artrism in Practice?

There's a whole category of objections to effect f autrism in practice, which might be good ones. How much of a mistake it is not to be n fact artrest depends on how big that thing is. And so there's basically a bunch of forces that push that thing out o seeming very big. But there're also forces that push it back towards what people would have done otherwise. The difference between those two is kind of like the additional impact you have due to effect valterism. I mean, if you werent going to boil it down, it would be like expected value of, like, best thing you can find with fext valterism, versus expected value

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