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#228 - Doing Good

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Path to Absolute Abundance

i'm wondering if there's a path through this wilderness that doesn't stigmatize wealth at all i mean the end game for me in the presence of absolute abundance is you know everyone gets to live like bill gates on some level. There's a flywheel effect here where one's desire to be wealthy actually amplifies one's commitment to giving. You have an opportunity to give so much money away and do so much good and it kind of purifies one's earning in the first place. If we get to the 22nd century and we've solved the ai alignment problem and now we're just pulling wealth out of the ether, then  we can do more or less anything we want

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