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Ten: Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours (April 2021)

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The Importance of Effective Altruism

Kassel: Why do you think effective altruism is important? He says the best way to prove it is by giving specific examples of things we can do that have much more impact than what people norma do. Kassel: You could save a life for roughly one and a half thousand dollars would like to give. That's about four or five live saved per year, he says.

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