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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Is There a Market for Doing Good?
Some actions will do more good than others, and some actions will be more costly than others. How cost effective an action is is like the m kind of the multiple of two its, like one divided by the other. And so that's just like the beliefs you come in with before you think about it. I know theyre mny people who like really believe that the sort of market for doing good is superficien. But i feel like when i remember showing him the peter singer article, famine, affluence and morality, he was like, no, but like all the things you try to do, we're going to have these crazy side effects, andall end up maybe
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