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#321 - Reckoning with Parfit

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Power of 10%

Tempsit created a company pledge for 10% of profits in response to my importuning of them on that point. I agree with his criticism of the language, except for he finds that the difference between pledge and promise is as inscrutable as you do. The effective altruism movement has come in for a lot of flack over the past nine months or so. It's had a very, very difficult year for all sorts of reasons but essentially it's a well-intentioned group of people trying to do the right thing.

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