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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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Effective Altruism Does Have a Moral Claim, Even if It's Limited

effective altruism does have a sort of moral claim, even if it's limited. But i might have thought that it was something like, ok, with the resources that you are going to dedicate to helping others, you actually should dedicate them to the ways that you think are going to do the most good. You are, in fact, already planet countreas te gon said, the common good. Ye. No, i'm more ok with that being in there. Ithink later we can get on, like how i would actually want to define the claim of atrism.

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