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#228 — Doing Good

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Altruism - The Difference Between Solving Problems With Money and Solving Problems With Your Time

In your response to my n you illustrated a few different areas of focus. I summarize effect of altruism for myself now along these lines, and is this. So the way i'm thinking about it now is that it's the question using our time and our money to do one or more of the following things. To save the most number of lives, to reduce the most suffering, or to mitigate the worst risks of future death and suffering. And there's so many different levels of competence and clarity around goals. There may be very effective charities that are targeting the wrong goals, and their ar ineffective charities targeting the right ones.

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