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Nine: Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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How to Have a High Impacd Career?

If you can make your career a hundred times better, it's worth almost spending the whole careerlaving up for that last six months. And this gets us to the whole idea of 80 thousand hours. Why you can just spend one %, if you can makeyour coureargus one percent better, it’s worth spending 800 hours doing that. I think, like people thought that the best charity, as the meat an charity work in the developing world, was like, may be twice as effective. Whereas i guess we would think it small, like a hundred times, or at least, like tenfold, exactly.

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