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But it's really important to use the head as well to make sure that what you do is effective and well-directed, and not only that, but also I think reason helps us to understand that other people, wherever they are, are like us, that they can suffer as we can, that parents grieve for the deaths of their children, as we do, and that just as our lives and our well-being matter to us, it matters just as much to all of these people.
And I think that's why many of the most significant people in effective altruism have been people who have had backgrounds in philosophy or economics or math.
But in fact it does make a difference, and in fact there's one particular nerd who has been a particularly effective altruist because he got this.
That's the understanding, the rational understanding of our situation in the world that has led to these people being the most effective altruists in history, Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
No one, not Andrew Carnegie, not John D. Rockefeller, has ever given as much to charity as each one of these three, and they have used their intelligence to make sure that it is highly effective.
He became an effective altruist when he calculated that with the money that he was likely to earn throughout his career, an academic career, he could give enough to cure 80,000 people of blindness in developing countries and still have enough left for a perfectly adequate standard of living.
He's a graduate student in philosophy, and he's set up a website called 80,000 Hours, the number of hours he estimates most people spend on their career, to advise people on how to have the best, most effective career.
He's already earning enough so that he's giving a six-figure sum to effective charities and still leaving himself with enough to live on.
Many people will think, though, that charities aren't really all that effective.
Toby Ord is very concerned about this, and he's calculated that some charities are hundreds or even thousands of times more effective than others, so it's very important to find the effective ones.
It costs about 40,000 dollars to train a guide dog and train the recipient so that the guide dog can be an effective help to a blind person.
But if you want to look for effective charities, this is a good website to go to.
If you want to look for other recommendations, thelifeyoucansave.com and Giving What We Can both have a somewhat broader list, but you can find effective organizations, and not just in the area of saving lives from the poor.
I'm pleased to say that there is now also a website looking at effective animal organizations.
So if you want to look for effective organizations to reduce that suffering, you can go to Effective Animal Activism.
And some effective altruists think it's very important to make sure that our species survives at all.
And Holly Morgan told me that she used to battle depression until she got involved with effective altruism, and now is one of the happiest people she knows.
I think one of the reasons for this is that being an effective altruist helps to overcome what I call the Sisyphus problem.
Becoming an effective altruist gives you that meaning and fulfillment.
And that did make me feel a little bit better, because I have given more than 5,000 dollars to the Against Malaria Foundation and to various other effective charities.
Just like those effective door hangers, we have people comparing themselves to their neighbors, and then we give everyone targeted recommendations to help them save.
And I figured it was possible, then, for anyone to love any child, if they had the effective will to do so.
Computers became tools, and they got more tools that they could use and become more effective during that time.
In that process, I tried to combine the different bows from across time and places to create the most effective bow.
The most effective bow for me would be like this.
That's when Jesuit missionaries in Peru discovered the bark of the cinchona tree, and inside that bark was quinine, still an effective cure for malaria to this day.
That's the only way they are effective.
President Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, but we soon discovered there are many kinds of cancer, most of them fiendishly resistant to therapy, and it is only in the last 10 years that effective, viable therapies have come to seem real.
The difference is this: A market economy is a tool, a valuable and effective tool, for organizing productive activity, but a market society is a place where almost everything is up for sale.
And so that means they need to secure production and quality control in the south, and you need to ensure that you have efficient and effective distribution channels in the markets where these drugs are consumed.
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