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#87 – Russ Roberts on whether it's more effective to help strangers, or people you know

80,000 Hours Podcast

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The Importance of Spelling in Altruism

I think it's interesting that to make all these arguments about how hard some of these problems are are to fix, how easy it is to have unintended consequences. But if you spend decades trying to understand pandemics and preparing for a moment like this one, then potentially you do have expertise often. And you can suggest things that will help to reduce the pandemic better than even odds. I don't know where you would stand on donating to global health or going going to pursue a career in improving health in really poor countries.

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