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Prospecting for Gold | Effective Altruism
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A metaphor-driven introduction to finding high-impact opportunities.
Prospecting for Gold | Effective Altruism Prospecting for Gold Nov 18, 2016 In this 2016 talk, Oxford University's Owen Cotton-Barratt discusses how effective altruists can improve the world, using the metaphor of someone looking for gold. He discusses a series of key effective altruist concepts, such as heavy-tailed distributions, diminishing marginal returns, and comparative advantage. This write-up of Owen's talk has been moderately edited for clarity. It isn't meant to be a complete transcript. Effective altruism as mining for gold The central metaphor running through this article is think
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