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Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Is There Any Reason Why We Shouldn't Expect the World to Be a Better?

There's no reason to expect that our existing institutions are like at all doing what's best from a long time ofs perspective, right? Ok? So is there anything else to say about why people might find this argument sive or unpersuasive? Well, so thire's like, 's ia, like two others that have been taken by people. One i don't want to cover too much now, but it's just like, well, we have loads of cognitive biases. And then we shouldn't expect, of course, for the for ther sort of mor market to provide all the goods'

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