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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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Evidence in Effective Altruism is often philosophical arguments

Glaprotis research the now s later debates wat t. Just how should you trade? Like, if i can invest resources now and have more in the future, when is that better than just trying to ave an impact right way? I think like these kinds of big picture questions are some of the things where fecto autuism has really added the most compared to what's already out there. It's more about using like philosophical reasoning rather than using evidence. And so by saying, like, using evidence, it's like getting people to think of stuff that's maybe not the most interesting,. But we're tinking of evidence in this broader way than what is most commonly

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