The Life You Can Save

That's a, a very observant thought and question.

Uh, in 2019, in grad school, I had watched a video about Peter Singer, and I believe the title is The Life You Can Save.

He wrote a book called The Life You Can Save, and it was about the effective altruism movement.

And that since has gotten a horrible rap because Sam Bankman-Fried and the-

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So that's a mistake.

for anyone who's listening and maybe they're not familiar with like effective altruism it's essentially just like a philosophical and a social movement where you're trying to it's very utilitarian in the sense that you're trying to like maximize the impact that you can have um with whether it's like your time volunteering or in most cases like money that you can donate um and it was something that i was always like quite interested in i um When I first started studying philosophy, I got really into like the philosophy of Peter Singer and the life you can save.

And I think the challenge that I kind of found with it over the years was this idea that we can reduce social impact to these like really quantifiable metrics.

which was something that, like, I kind of, like, have a problem with personally.

Like, it's an interesting philosophy.

Do you have any, like, resources or things that you would recommend to anyone who's listening? And, you know, that's kind of something that's of interest to them.

Yeah, I think that The Life You Can Save is still an excellent example and resource.

And The even more important book for me in terms of motivation and understanding and philosophy was his other book, The Most Good You Can Do.