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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

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Do You Care About the Common Good?

There are big differences about how much different actions contribute to the common good. Second one is identifiability. So it's that we can actually find these unusually high impact actions with moderate and then, and one is novelty. And so it's kind of saying, well, if you care about the common good, some ways of helping the common good are like, a way better than others. To not do those things, you're just failing in your goal, your stated goal.

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