One: Holden Karnofsky on times philanthropy transformed the world & Open Phil's plan to do the same
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
00:00
The Last Dollar Question - Should We Make a Grant or Not?
When we're looking at a grant and we're trying to say, should we make this grant or not? One way to frame the question is, would the money do more good under this grant, or under the last dollar that we will otherwise spend? And i think it really comes down to this incredibly mind bending question. Do you think chickens can feel pain? Do you think they have rights? You know, how much you value the lives of chickens compared to persons? I don't care about chickens. I care about people. But there's even more sort of animal welfare in the future than there are for us now. There may be a lot of chickens in the world, but there
Transcript
Play full episode
