After the epic downfall of its most prominent backer, Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic philosophy — Effective Altruism ...

When I say I'm raising my puppy to be a service dog and will give him away, people always ask me how I could do that? The ...

Effective altruism also encompasses an emphasis on “long-termism,” which can read like another excuse for mercenary corner-cutting today, so long as you commit your loot to improving tomorrow.

Schadenfreude is a survival emotion that activates pleasure circuits and decreases pain. So does altruism, if you make it accessible.

Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement concerned with finding the most effective ways to make the world a better place, according to Graeme McDonough, a junior on the Effective ...

Over the past quarter century, few countries have commanded as much sustained attention from U.S. foreign policy officials as ...

The effective altruism movement (EA) is one of the most influential philosophically savvy movements to emerge in recent years. Effective altruism has historically been dedicated to finding out what ...

The fates of effective altruism and FTX first became entwined in 2012 over a lunch conversation between then–rising star philosopher William MacAskill and then–MIT undergrad Sam Bankman-Fried.

Altruism may seem a good thing – unless you happen to be an evolutionary biologist. Then it may seem a mixture of a mystery and a curse. The reason isn't hard to see.

A measure in New York state offers tax credits to living organ donors. That's reignited one of medicine’s most contentious ...

Altruism values for treatments of rare, severe pediatric diseases have not been estimated. This study found the altruism value for a hypothetical new Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment to be ...

Pro-altruism microbe recipients were fitter in that they had benefited from another host’s generosity, meaning they were more likely to produce offspring carrying the same microbe.