Laurie Feldman used to be that mother — the one who redid her children's homework and called their friends' parents whenever conflict arose at school. But what seemed like benign attempts to help her ...

Nature is full of animals helping each other out. A classic example is meerkat cooperation. When the group is foraging for food, one individual will head to a vantage point and keep watch for ...

One of the main characters of the TV series The Good Place is Chidi Anagonye, a brilliant yet perennially indecisive moral philosopher. Chidi is full of good intentions but – as the saying goes – that ...

Effective altruism, which started as a small movement at Oxford University over a decade ago, is an influential and controversial philosophy backed by billionaires—including Facebook co-founder Dustin ...

T HE STARTING-point for effective altruism was a simple assumption, that “suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad.” Yet adherents fear they ma ...

Several months have passed since I re-read "A Compass to Fulfillment."Now that it is October 2026, my daily life and my engagement with AI have deepened even further.Generative AI like ChatGPT and ...

If you believe there is no such thing as altruism, you are in good company. In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins writes that we must “try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish” ...

Though we don’t live in zoos, we often behave like animals. So many of our instincts are derived from our animal counterparts. Take the various forms of altruism as an example. In the animal kingdom, ...

There is no evidence that anyone in the EA movement was aware of the FTX fraud, and one of its founders, Will MacAskill, has strongly denounced Bankman-Fried’s actions. Still, the company’s collapse, ...

If gut bacteria can sway their hosts to be selfless, it could answer a riddle that goes back to Darwin. Now researchers are beginning to explore whether parasitic manipulations may spur host behaviors ...

Nature is full of animals helping each other out. A classic example is meerkat cooperation. When the group is foraging for food, one individual will head to a vantage point and keep watch for ...