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#228 - Doing Good

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Mental Pleasure

I think we need to figure out how to leverage the salience of connection to other people and the pleasure of doing good. If we lose sight of that if we just keep saying that you can spend $2,000 here which is better than spending $3,000 over there completely disregarding the experience people are having engaging with the suffering of others I feel like something is lost. We're building our own minds we're building the very basis by which we would continue to do good in the world in coming days and weeks and months and years yeah so I mean again it's falling into the guilty pleasure been here compared to the absolutely optimized most effective way of relieving suffering but I don't

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