The Importance of Altruism

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i think that beyond a moderate amount of wealth, there's just not really anything that you can do that's going to have much impact on your life. But in fact, you can have absolutely massive impact on the rest of the world,. And, and i think that that is incredibly important. I think e's almost how sometimes society treats these things, is slampedu sort of optimizing for the wrong piece of it.

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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