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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

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Effective Altruism

One of the big insights of effective altruism is that your money can go way farther in some areas than others. Ye, i as also, i mentioned, maybe something like a third or forty % of the like, money being spent in effect actrism style is being spent on global health. Among people who are changing their careers in an effect altrism way, i would say it's probably more like ten%. So it's a bit lower than the money, which, because give well is such a big factor. But it is still like a major thing that people are working on. There is like a huge kennel of truth in ths, ye, i guess.

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