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Effective Altruism — 80,000 Hours
- Key
- 80khours-ea-explainer
- Authors
- 80,000 Hours
- Type
- webpage
- Publisher
- 80,000 Hours
Raw CSL JSON
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"URL": "https://80000hours.org/articles/effective-altruism/",
"type": "webpage",
"title": "Effective Altruism",
"author": [
{
"family": "80,000 Hours"
}
],
"publisher": "80,000 Hours"
}
Claims
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80,000 Hours argues that some ways of helping others are dramatically more effective than others, and that choosing how to help matters as much as whether to help.
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80,000 Hours describes the cause prioritization framework as identifying problems that are large in scale, neglected relative to their importance, and tractable to philanthropic effort.
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80,000 Hours notes that there are now tens of billions of dollars committed to the effective altruism approach.
"tens of billions of dollars committed to the approach"
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