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#228 - Doing Good

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Effective Altruism

Many people think that effective altruism is just about earning as much money as possible to give. There are a wide variety of causes that we focus on now and in fact among the kind of most engaged people in effect of altruism the biggest focus now is making sure is future generations. Toby: The profound effect that your work has had on me thus far arrives at this other level of just the stark recognition that I want to do good in the world by default and I want to engineer my life such that that happens whether I'm inspired or not.

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