Are You Optimizing for Impact?

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I think in staid, the answer is generaly ike, no, you can have absolutely mass ive impact. It just keeps going and going and going. And i think that means that it makes a lot of sense to shoot really high with it. I well, sam, has been great to speak with you. Is there anything that we didn't cover that you think we should touch?

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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