Harry Potter and the Fuzzies of Altruism
This is a shorter version of a post for Miri Mogilevsky’s blog, Brute Reason. Effective Altruists are do-gooders with a special interest in researching the very best ways to do good, such as...
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Most good people are kind in an ordinary way, when the intensity of human suffering in the world today calls for heroic kindness. I’ve seen ordinary kindness criticized as “pretending to try”. We go...
View ArticleWhich charity does the most good?
What can you do that would have the best chance of making the world a better place? As Scott Siskind puts the question: Most donors say they want to “help people”. If that’s true, they should try to...
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