Tag: effective altruism
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Facing the future: how do we help unborn generations?
Acting on behalf of our descendants isn’t a new thing. Indigenous groups have long practised “seventh-generation thinking” – making decisions based on how they will affect people far into the future. Europeans began building enormous cathedrals that they would not live to enjoy – because it was the “right thing to do” for their children…
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Why super-altruists will give up a kidney
Would you give up a kidney to save the life of an anonymous stranger? Me neither. (I’m too squeamish even to donate blood.) But some people would. In fact, nearly 1,000 people in the UK have given up theirs, not because they’ve been moved to act by an individual’s appeal for help, but as “non-directed…
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