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Nine: Benjamin Todd on the key ideas of 80,000 Hours

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Long Term Ism

Long timism is the idea that, like, when we consider how to make a difference, we should simplify that down to helping the long term future. The position only really got staked out in the last couple of decades by philosophers such as derrick parfet and nick bostrim. So there's ptently a lot of low hanging fruit that's been left there by other people. Case it's like so many an that is tractable, that there might be things that we could do now that culdn't change a long term.

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