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

He is also one of the founders of effective altruism — as well as the person who, in 2012, recruited an M.I.T. undergraduate named Sam Bankman-Fried to the effective altruism cause.

Now movement it is quietly trying to re-build ties to power, including at the heart of the White House — and the roles reflect the effective altruism’s growing interest in AI, which its ...

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

Talk of movements makes me nervous. The latest swirling in tech world is “effective altruism.” Elon Musk had a brush with it. Its biggest proponent is crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX ...

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, a mix of 18th-century utilitarianism and modern ideas about happiness, helped deflect scrutiny from Bankman-Fried's dubious crypto operation.

Altruism is real and developed because it confers an evolutionary advantage that is ultimately greater than the benefits of selfishness, an international team of mathematicians claims to have ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- One of the most generous people I know, a doctor, denies that there is such a thing as altruism. The absence of altruism in the world does not bother him. On the ...

We don't think we'd ever heard of Oakland University, a second-tier institution in suburban Rochester, Mich., but Barbara Oakley, an associate professor in engineering, may help put the place on ...