Affective Altruism
Redirecting another post over here because I apparently have no willpower and could not stop myself from piling on to it until the end product became unacceptably oversized for YouTube’s community tab. It’s fine though, this one probably merits a spot on here anyway.
Will MacAskill back on the Making Sense podcast:
https://samharris.org/podcasts/228-doing-good/
Too
much of this turned out to be a rerun of their 2016 edition, so I’ll spare you a
retelling of the more substantive objections I’ve already aired in the wake of that first
conversation. Right now I want to delve into an altogether different observation
that keeps bugging me about these two. I’m finally able to recall how the same something
managed to irritate me during the first go-round as well. It’s one of those
vague somethings that never fully
crystallized for me, until a few days ago.
