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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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Comparative Advantage

You always have to weigh, you'r like, personal fet and comparative advantage against how good the path is in general. We use this term comparative advantage, which is a litit jargony. You can end up doing something which you're absolutely less good at by your like you're filling some gapa relative what other people can do. And it's very hard to wrap or head ound these massive differences in impact that might be possible. It feels lie that they're potentially sacrificing lot of gaim there if they actually research which problem a thath they ant to work on long term.

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