
Tyler Cowen on Effective Altruism (University of St Andrews)
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Is There Something Else in Altruism?
I would like to see the super secular world of philosophy, parentheses, demographics or destiny take on a lot more religious ideas. For Quakers, for many Quakers, it's community-based where our discernment is beyond the individual and not fully rational. I think these terms like altruism which sort of divide the self and other are almost a distraction from the fact that we are our interactions with others. But descriptively speaking, I don't see that the EAers as a group are at where you are at now. It may be a selection issue that reflects more on me than them, but the EAers who present themselves to me, so to speak, are highly rationalistic or
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