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

In some ways, aging is like baseball. That is, as each inning has the same three outs and each trip around the sun always takes 365 days, over time, the compounding importance of end-of-game outs and ...

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 ...

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

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

Nine months after effective altruism advocate Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud, Peter Singer and Alice Crary debated its merits.

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

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 ...

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.

Altruism raises the overall value of providing care. It obviously benefits the poor who are able to use innovative medicine, but it less obviously benefits rich “non-patients” who derive ...

It can be difficult for philanthropists to recognize when they’re engaging in delusional altruism. But to transform issues, communities and neighborhoods, we need to look in the mirror and ...

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 ...