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Effective Altruism with Kelsey Piper

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Is Utilitarianism True or Should We Stop Giving Here?

Aaron Aaron: One of the things effective altruists have done is argue that a lot of charities aren't like super effective right. He says there are some famous examples of intended well charitable efforts that actually just backfired or made things worse in Wilma Cascals first book doing good better he profiles like play pumps and then as they play on it we'll pump water but kids won't do that so what they ended up with was them being turned into merry go rounds by women who had to work much more hard than normal people. In terms of government foreign aid I'm not sure if you can really make any difference without systematic follow-up, accountability maybe this does help but there's

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