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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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Is There a Cap in the Difference in Effectiveness?

Welius: Some people think that having more children is bad for the long term future, cause it lik creates more problems in tha short term before we can fix them. And that argument, welius, mean, that's a somewhat open question, is, like, ye, do these actions generally helps? Welius: But i think you only need one kind of funging argument to already think that there's a cap in the difference in potential effectiveness. So if it's positive, because meaning thathere's more people in this short run effect,  if it has a very, very slight effect than that would end up swamping thaty exactly.

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