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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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Effective Altruism and Consecutiveism

I think effective altruism has been a really interesting intellectual movement, you know, in my lifetime. It's sort of made contributing to charity intellectually sexy, which I find very admirable and they've brought a lot of attention to causes that are more esoteric. So the broadest sort of definition is something like moneyball but for charities. So it's looking at charities and saying, how can we make our donations to these charities as effective as possible?

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