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Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Learning From Experience in Philanthropy

One of these instrumental arguments that i'm a little bit sceptical about is the idea that we'll kind of learn from experience within some domains. I would kind of expect that the cross over lessons would be pretty weak, just because these are such different, different disciplines. And so y, rotting programmes with the goal of learning from those experiences would seem somewhat wasteful relative to disgoving and reading existing histories. On the second point, i mean, weave an ese in the histry of philanthropy, and we think that we can learn of material now from those successes, and that we should try to do more. But i actually think within long termsthem, wou should expect like

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