How Effective Altruism Works
Stuff You Should Know
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🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
A branch of philanthropy led by philosophers is dedicated to finding the most impactful ways to help humans survive and thrive. Anyone can find that agreeable, but it can be tough to hear it also means your donations to local charities are kind of a waste.
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| 0:00.0 | There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of. |
| 0:05.7 | That's why we launched The Big Take. |
| 0:08.3 | It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit |
| 0:14.0 | to give you some space to think. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm Wes Kosova. |
| 0:17.7 | Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters. |
| 0:23.6 | Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:41.4 | Hey and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan and Jerry Sierre so that appropriately |
| 0:47.6 | makes this stuff you should know. |
| 0:50.4 | That's right. |
| 0:51.4 | Before we get going, we want to give a little special plug to our good friend, John Hodgman |
| 0:56.8 | and our buddy David Reese. |
| 0:59.5 | Because they got a season two of their awesome animated show, Dick Town, as in private detective |
| 1:06.1 | Dick by the way. |
| 1:07.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.1 | I mean, it's cool enough to get one season of a show. |
| 1:10.3 | But if you've got in a second season and they're tossing you on FX these days, you've made |
| 1:14.6 | it. |
| 1:15.6 | So their show has finally made it and it's well deserved too because it's a pretty awesome |
| 1:18.7 | cartoon. |
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