After the epic downfall of its most prominent backer, Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic philosophy — Effective Altruism ...

Schadenfreude is a survival emotion that activates pleasure circuits and decreases pain. So does altruism, if you make it accessible.

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Altruism value was calculated as respondents’ mean WTP. Results: Among 215 respondents, 54.9% (n = 118) were aged 25 to 44 years and 80.0% (n = 172) were women.

The effective altruism movement (EA) is one of the most influential philosophically savvy movements to emerge in recent years. Effective altruism has historically been dedicated to finding out what ...

Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement concerned with finding the most effective ways to make the world a better place, according to Graeme McDonough, a junior on the Effective ...

Altruism is unselfish concern for the welfare of others. Like ‘empathy’, ‘altruism’ is a modern term, coined by the philosopher Auguste Comte (d. 1857) from the French autrui, which itself ...

The fates of effective altruism and FTX first became entwined in 2012 over a lunch conversation between then–rising star philosopher William MacAskill and then–MIT undergrad Sam Bankman-Fried.

Does Altruism Exist? aims to present this "post-resolution" view of how natural selection acts to the general reader. As you might guess, Wilson's own theory fares well in this post-resolution view.

But in a video debate published on Aug. 28 by the nonprofit organization Open to Debate, philosopher Peter Singer defended effective altruism, claiming that Bankman-Fried was an advocate of the ...

Effective altruism also encompasses an emphasis on “long-termism,” which can read like another excuse for mercenary corner-cutting today, so long as you commit your loot to improving tomorrow.

Altruism raises the overall value of providing care. It obviously benefits the poor who are able to use innovative medicine, but it less obviously benefits rich “non-patients” who derive ...