This talk by Ajeya Cotra is my favorite introduction to 'Effective Altruism'.
youtube.com/watch?v=48VAQt
- She gets the inspiring excitement of this movement across.
- And she also gets to the hard questions that EAs ask themselves.
Very much recommend it if you are interested.
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I’d like someone in the EA community to share thoughts on broader system change, especially in global health. This vertical model is inefficient and running out of political steam. I stopped engaging with this community because I felt like they lack this understanding.

