Effective Altruism’s Faith-Based Sacrifice for the Future
The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
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Introduction
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Freed was a leading advocate for and financial sponsor of the effective altruist movement. He prioritized giving to causes favored by long-termism, which orients our decisions toward potential generations in the distant future. Long-termists like MacAskel tend to downplay worries about climate change as too short-term. Concerned for the real long-term means thinking centuries or even millennia into a future no one we love will ever know.
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