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How to form habits effectively (with Jim Davies)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Cost of Altruism
No one has any way to calculate how much good you're going to do for a dollar spent to try to prevent existential risk. For helping animals, you can save like 350 animals by donating $100. And then for the fighting climate change, these numbers are extremely recent and very uncertain. What some recent economists have done is tried to figure out the cost of the human life cost of putting carbon into the atmosphere over the next 100 years.
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