
229: Thought Experiments
Classical Stuff You Should Know
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The Importance of Effective Altruism
Effective altruism is where you make your like giving decisions based on some measurable measurable form of impact. What if there are no lives to be saved currently? They're always lives to be saving. If I'm poor and I'm a dollar dollar to my name Yeah I suppose I could go and like make sandwiches. But they're also tied into this new hedonism kind of thing where it's like maximizing maximizing pleasure. You can find examples of these thought experiments going back a long time. Is the universe infinite or is it finite? That's the thinking of the in the fourth century BC. Do you find this compelling? Have we answered the question? I don't think so. There
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