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E1: Marc Andreessen on His Intellectual Journey the Past Ten Years

"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg

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The Blind Spot of Effective Altruism

His wife has taught for many years actually a Stanford for actually to stop philanthropy as she sort of helped develop one of the main people who developed philanthropy as an academic field. She says there's a critique of philanthropy that she believes that by the way Sam but also agree with which is basically most philanthropy is emotional. You know effective altruism basically you could say takes that idea and then like steals it way up and basically says okay you should apply that same methodology to basically all the humanity right and and you should basically write it.

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