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Effective Altruism — 80,000 Hours

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80khours-ea-explainer
Authors
80,000 Hours
Type
webpage
Publisher
80,000 Hours
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  "URL": "https://80000hours.org/articles/effective-altruism/",
  "type": "webpage",
  "title": "Effective Altruism",
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Claims

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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"
    Quote language: en
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