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The World Is Not a Liquid at Fixed Volume in a Cup of Coffee
Jesse Rimmler: The world is not a liquid at fixed volume in a cup of coffee. In the early universe, the gravitational interaction between one part of the universe and another is crucially important. He says effective altruism focuses less on this because these actions are harder to quantify. As we make decisions implicitly all the time about what actions to actually improve the world, it's important to analyze how well they work.