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Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #228)
youtube.comEffective altruism in its simplest form is just the “Moneyball of charities”, a reference to a movie where the sport became all about statistics and less about the players.
Erik Hoel • EconTalk on Apple Podcasts
Charity is good; there are aspects of the effective altruism movement that are good, but the mandate to maximize it at scale deserves to be questioned and investigated.
Erik Hoel • EconTalk on Apple Podcasts
"The movement, known as E.A. to its practitioners, who themselves are known as E.A.s, takes as its premise that people ought to do good in the most clear-sighted, ambitious, and unsentimental way possible. Among other back-of-the-envelope estimates, E.A.s believe that a life in the developing world can be saved for about four thousand dollars.... See more
Gideon Lewis-Kraus • The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism

In a famous essay from 1972, the radical utilitarian Peter Singer proposed a simple thought experiment: if you see a child drowning in a shallow pond, presumably you don’t worry about soiling your clothes before you wade in to help. Given the irrelevance of the child’s location, whether it be in a pond nearby or one 6,000 miles away, devoting... See more
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