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From the Ted Talk by Will MacAskill: What are the most important moral problems of our time?

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For the last 10 years, my colleagues and I have developed a philosophy and rsreaech program that we call effective altruism. It tries to respond to these raiacdl changes in our wrold, uses evdceine and careful reasoning to try to aewnsr this question: How can we do the most good? Now, there are many issues you've got to aedrsds if you want to tackle this problem: whether to do good through your charity or your career or your political engagement, what programs to foucs on, who to work with. But what I want to talk about is what I think is the most fundamental problem. Of all the many problems that the world faces, which should we be focused on trying to solve first? Now, I'm going to give you a framework for thinking about this question, and the feormrawk is very simple. A problem's higher priority, the begigr, the more easily solvable and the more neglected it is. Bigger is better, because we've got more to gain if we do solve the problem. More elasiy solvable is better because I can solve the problem with less time or money. And most sutbly, more neglected is better, because of dhmnnsiiiig returns. The more resources that have already been invested into solving a problem, the harder it will be to make additional progress. Now, the key thing that I want to leave with you is this framework, so that you can think for yourself what are the highest global priorities. But I and others in the evtcffiee altruism community have converged on three moral issues that we believe are unusually important, score unusually well in this framework.

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For the last 10 years, my colleagues and I have developed a philosophy and ________ program that we call effective altruism. It tries to respond to these _______ changes in our _____, uses ________ and careful reasoning to try to ______ this question: How can we do the most good? Now, there are many issues you've got to _______ if you want to tackle this problem: whether to do good through your charity or your career or your political engagement, what programs to _____ on, who to work with. But what I want to talk about is what I think is the most fundamental problem. Of all the many problems that the world faces, which should we be focused on trying to solve first? Now, I'm going to give you a framework for thinking about this question, and the _________ is very simple. A problem's higher priority, the ______, the more easily solvable and the more neglected it is. Bigger is better, because we've got more to gain if we do solve the problem. More ______ solvable is better because I can solve the problem with less time or money. And most ______, more neglected is better, because of ___________ returns. The more resources that have already been invested into solving a problem, the harder it will be to make additional progress. Now, the key thing that I want to leave with you is this framework, so that you can think for yourself what are the highest global priorities. But I and others in the _________ altruism community have converged on three moral issues that we believe are unusually important, score unusually well in this framework.

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Original Text

For the last 10 years, my colleagues and I have developed a philosophy and research program that we call effective altruism. It tries to respond to these radical changes in our world, uses evidence and careful reasoning to try to answer this question: How can we do the most good? Now, there are many issues you've got to address if you want to tackle this problem: whether to do good through your charity or your career or your political engagement, what programs to focus on, who to work with. But what I want to talk about is what I think is the most fundamental problem. Of all the many problems that the world faces, which should we be focused on trying to solve first? Now, I'm going to give you a framework for thinking about this question, and the framework is very simple. A problem's higher priority, the bigger, the more easily solvable and the more neglected it is. Bigger is better, because we've got more to gain if we do solve the problem. More easily solvable is better because I can solve the problem with less time or money. And most subtly, more neglected is better, because of diminishing returns. The more resources that have already been invested into solving a problem, the harder it will be to make additional progress. Now, the key thing that I want to leave with you is this framework, so that you can think for yourself what are the highest global priorities. But I and others in the effective altruism community have converged on three moral issues that we believe are unusually important, score unusually well in this framework.

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