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Personally I don't believe in effective altruism, however it sounds like Mr. Feeney lived this philosophy much better than Sam Bankman Fried ever did, without a

• ramraj07 3y ago
  Feeney didn’t do “effective altruism”. Looks like he just gave to whoever he pleased to.
  • dale_glass 3y ago
    I don't have a horse in this race, but I am curious: who did he give to, and in what way do those donations not align with effective altruism?
    • obscur 3y ago
      Effective altruists are most commonly donating to specific relatively high-evidence causes in low-income countries or much more speculative existential risk causes. Donations such as his donations to Carneggie Mellon University are an example of donations that is not common among effective altruists.
    • AdamN 3y ago
      They're kind of missing the most important point of altruism being "effective". It's not that the recipient is effective with the money, it's that the net value of one's altruism is higher if you work and make alot of money and give it to donors rather than if you just did the work that the donors are doing. This is only applicable for those earning more than the people doing the work within the recipient organization of course.
• wombat-man 3y ago
  It was amazing how much attention SBF got for saying he'd donate a lot of money someday. I don't think he made any actual donation or formal commitment.