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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Comparing Effective Altruism

When one makes a judgment about effectiveness, they have to be choosing something to maximize or prioritize. And this is actually a big part of precisely what the effective altruism movement has done. There's a couple of them somewhere around like mosquito bed nets and things like that that are just really, really effective at saving lives. But what if you're comparing things that are very far apart? Well, now it becomes a little bit clearer that what we mean by morality isn't as obviously measurable as an effective economic intervention or an effective medical intervention.

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