
#8 Julia Galef: The Art of Changing Minds
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
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Effect Altruism
The way that people instinctively, kind of, by default, try to help the world is really ineffective and inefficient. People are more likely to give to a charity if they see a picture of,. you know, a starving child on the cover of the brocher. It's very it like, really taps into our emotions and motivates us. But that often has no connection to whether the charity is actually effective at helping people or saving lives. You can just do you can, like, save a hundred times more lives with the same amount of money that you're donating to charities over your lifetime, if you choose your charity as well. That's an awesome way to think about this as we
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