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Benjamin Todd on the core of effective altruism and how to argue for it (80k team chat #3)
80,000 Hours Podcast
What Are the Premises?
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 effort. And then the nd one is novelty, so that the things that we could find that are really good are like, different from the ones that common sense would get us to focus on normally. If some of the best things you can focus on are like, a thousand times better than others, then that means fectaltruism is enormously important.
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