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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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The Importance of Effective Altruism

i feel, basically, it just seems like the community as a whole will often be better at knowing stuff than a single person. And that almost brings you back to the most common sense priities by definition. So that suggests very big differences in working to try to address your air safety versus working to address climate change. Yesd workand where climate changeis already a really pressing globe priety,. compared to kind of just more everyday priorties that we might have.

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