Altruism and Allocation

I would also be really surprised if the kind of special source or something about effective altruism is that people are more effective more capable just smarter than the world as a whole and that lets us fix these problems. When it comes to big structural things like ending factory farming preventing pandemics aligning artificial intelligence I am very skeptical that a small group of people will be able to do it. There's an idea of phase one and phase two work yes in EA or long-term as DA where phase one work is something like thinking about what is most important in general and planning but what we should do about those things and phase two work is at least making a start when you know for instance