Is It Personal Giving or Does X Give a Certain Amount of Profit Away?

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i nedus 'll start with the last part, which is the easiest. The bulk of it is personal. F t x is also giving some f t x is giving one % of what it makes. But that's not where i expect most of this impact to come from. And evno, if it starts to look like something that i hadn't previously thought, what's important is the most important thing. I think m've been giving some to global poverty causes each year,. ave been given some to animal welfare causes. Each year, i've been givingSome to effect o altruism, community building chariti's like centre for effect of altruism.

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Sam Bankman-Fried about effective altruism. They discuss how he became the wealthiest self-made billionaire under 30, what might go wrong with cryptocurrency, the Giving What We Can pledge, how SBF thinks about using his resources to do the most good in the world, how not to stigmatize wealth, wealth redistribution, norms of generosity among the ultra-wealthy, pandemic preparedness, impact through lobbying, how ambitious should we be in doing good, and other topics.

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