We got to figure out a way to make it so we just have a one button thing where everything sinks up with one button.

Is that possible one day? Maybe.

We're live. Right now we're live?

Live, live. How are you sir? Yeah, I'm not too bad.

Welcome. Thanks for coming man appreciate it. Yeah no worries. Thanks so much for having

Sam Harris is going to be with us, but he flaked out last minute. He's a busy man. He's a busy man.

He's a busy man. So I'm interested to talk to you about a bunch of things, but one of the big ones is this idea of effective altruism. And this is something that you really promote to the point where I don't

know if this is true but I read this about you that everything that you make over $36,000 a year you donate?

Yeah that's right.

So, yeah, so everything above, technically it's everything above 20,000 pounds

from 2009 Oxford. So just for inflation, cost of living changes and stuff, but that's about $36,000.

So you've just sort of decided that, which is, by the way, the 1% for the whole world?

Yeah, not quite, about 2%, yeah.

I'll be in the top, still be in the top 2% even despite I thought it was 34,000 I think 34,000 puts you in the top 1% I think it's 55,000 dollars. Oh, is it changed maybe since Trump's been in office. Yeah, that's right, but it's a change? Maybe since Trump's been in office. Yeah, that's right. But it's a, you know, what you're doing is, if that's really the case, that's a very charitable thing. Yeah, and it's also, I mean, it's most of my income over the course of my life, like especially as an academic, you're not going to earn tons.

Though, since the effect of autism blew up, you end up getting things like speaking fees and you know

right is and I give all that away as well well it's going to end up probably being like the

large majority of income of the course of my life do you ever like want to buy something

and be like shit if I wasn't so goddamn generous I'd be able to get this.

You know I never do. I like basically never think that yeah. I think like this like I feel like in

Contembly society we just get bombarded with marketing stuff all the time saying like oh you really need this thing if you're going to have a good life and I think like an almost every case that's just not through I think the psychological evidence just shows that once you're above a certain level of income

additional money just has a very small impact on your happiness.

And in my own case, like the things that make me happier,

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