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Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

How to Be an Effective Altruist

Ajaa: I'm curious to hear your reaction to the way Ajaa described separating out the question of given that you've decided to let's say spend 40 hours a week working on improving the world or you know spend $10,000 given to charity. So that's like one question and effective altruism. And then the other question is, well, how much should you give? How much of your time, energy, money should you give?" JAS: Well, first of all, actually, especially for sort of audience sake, but also my own, I don't have some set of canonical critiques, just a set of thoughts. The specific division obviously is useful as

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