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Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Altruism Is a Good Idea

The problems of the world that she just will not support giving at that scale in a super consifective way. If you were trying to spend just a billion dollars a year on stuff, then you would need to be reducing total global life years lost from all causes everywhere by under one%. And so i think it is a kind of n interesting point that i wish effective altruists would pay a little bit more attention to. I don't fel ii haven't done with god do particlarness wi not like something people should necessarily understand.

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