The Highest Form of Giving Is Anonymity

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i've come to believe int and will a at least for the purposes of this conversation, agrees that at least in certain cases, ananymity is not the highest ideal. Because there's so much good to be done by persuading people to follow this example. And none of that good gets done if you just hide your light under a bushel and do it anonymously,. content tat your you have not been contaminated by the sin of your own vanity. You also want to obviously make sure, while doing it, that, you know, you don't sort of loose focus on what mattered in the first place. But i think that contingent on being comfortable that you can weather that mistake

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Sam Bankman-Fried about effective altruism. They discuss how he became the wealthiest self-made billionaire under 30, what might go wrong with cryptocurrency, the Giving What We Can pledge, how SBF thinks about using his resources to do the most good in the world, how not to stigmatize wealth, wealth redistribution, norms of generosity among the ultra-wealthy, pandemic preparedness, impact through lobbying, how ambitious should we be in doing good, and other topics.

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