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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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Some degree of specialization does eventually seem to be necessary for almost any of the optionists that seem highest impacts. And so it seems like often it is worth specializing more and paying the trade off of less flexibility. If there were two steps you needed to take towards your long time option, and one gave you more transferable cro capital than clearly do the more transferable one first, and then like, delay the specialization if you can. But it does kind of seem lik you eed to do it at some point, ye.

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