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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

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Is There a Difference Between Giving and Donating?

i think there can often be large differences. Ye, and there's some things seem like much higher impact than what we would have done otherwise. Just to give a quite randomly different one, is in doing good better. And on ya, on brian tomassi blog, which we can link to, he does an analysis of how much animal suffering you avoid by cutting out different meat products. He actually shows that that is roughly like a thousand times difference in animal suffering between like, a pound of beef s a pound of, i think, chicken or fish. Like most people, a like yo, should either be vegen or you should, or just whatever, eat meats. It's

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