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Ten: Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
Is There Any Reason Why We Shouldn't Expect the World to Be a Better Place?
There's no reason to expect that our existing institutions are like a toll 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 persuasive or unpersuasive? One i don't want to cover too much now, but it's like the kind of argument from human irrationality where its just like, well, we have loads of cognitive biases. And then all the like kind of market failues in coordination s, kind of classic economic studies,. ok, so that's that' efficiency, and why we should probably not expect the world to be already doing all the things to make the world a better
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