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Making Sense with Sam Harris · August 26, 2024 · 80m
#381 — Effective Altruism After FTX
William MacAskill on the future of effective altruism after the FTX collapse. The movement's core ideas survive the scandal: rigorous reasoning about where to direct resources for maximum impact. But institutional failures require honest reckoning.
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MacAskill: effective altruism provides a framework for taking responsibility for the suffering you could prevent. Meaning emerges from the gap between what you could do and what you choose to do.
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MacAskill: EA's response to the FTX scandal required applying the most generous interpretation to critics rather than dismissing them. The strongest criticism — that EA's utilitarian framework enabled SBF's rationalizations — deserves honest engagement.
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