This left a rather embarrassing paradox: the evolution of altruism was impossible, yet clearly altruism had evolved.
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What's dangerous here, other than Joe himself, is altruism for altruism's sake — altruism whose true identity is menace.
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But, of course, there's no altruism on Wall Street, and there's no altruism among companies traded on the stock market.
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As somebody who's involved in effective altruism, I was pleasantly surprised to see effective altruism feature somewhat prominently in the book, as part of the transition to a new, results-driven aid.
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We cannot just be reliant on the altruism of people.
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In surrogacy, altruism and financial gain can, and do, coexist.
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Of course, generosity and altruism are not the same thing.
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We now live in a golden age of celebrity altruism.
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Just like with Plan Colombia, this isn't about mere altruism.
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Amid all the agony, she also saw plenty of altruism.
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Polarization is nothing new to us, but neither is altruism.
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Some research suggests altruism is linked to a longer lifespan.
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It's not based purely on altruism or fables or myths.
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Being decent to others is not an act of altruism.
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How is "altruism put to a test" atop the mountain?
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It pays women fairly for their hard work and altruism.
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Altruism, and a little financial incentive, can be motivating factors.
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It didn't become a resettlement leader out of pure altruism.
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But altruism aside, investing in newcomer education makes practical sense.
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There's also fascinating research about how altruism spikes after disasters.
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Price's work suggested a different way for altruism to spread.
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We are not counting on their goodwill or their altruism.
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Narrator: Matombi is eight years old, but he doesn't look it.... Dooley isn't the first pilgrim from the West to not promote their altruism by promoting their altruism, and certainly won't be the last.
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The why is important, too, and may be an opportunity to get more facts out there and appeal to your folks' sense of altruism: Maybe your relatives won't be persuaded by altruism or facts.
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One last part of being a true man is also altruism.
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Ishihara said Amas are a tight knit community guided by altruism.
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Several patients reported feelings of spirituality, unusual peacefulness, and increased altruism.
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Unfortunately, altruism was not only a human trait—it was everywhere.
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By comparison it is shabby; its ethos reflects altruism, not pomp.
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Generosity is an act, while altruism is a way of life.
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Loyalty to the nation combined with confidence and trust favours altruism.
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But the United States was not necessarily acting out of altruism.
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Still, organ donation in the U.S. is solely based on altruism.
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But in his third experiment, Rolo is no longer faking altruism.
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I don't attribute this to pure altruism on Apple management's part.
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"Social distancing is based on the principle of altruism," he said.
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Maybe compassion, altruism and social responsibility need to play larger roles.
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But altruism isn't a great motivator for parents, Dr. Buttenheim said.
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Free, in-store classes are not just about education and altruism.
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Given that Price didn't selfishly desert his family, his equation wasn't strictly about altruism, and his altruism didn't directly cause his death, Farnworth had to make some choices about the story she was going to tell.
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In this instance, however, altruism likely has nothing to do with it.
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Effective altruism can be a hard sell, even for the rationally minded.
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Its unsecured creditors have cast doubt in the altruism of Lampert's efforts.
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He said two-thirds of them cite altruism as their top motivation.
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But later, its actions change, from aggression to… understanding, or altruism, even?
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She produces videos that help stop prejudice and promote altruism through action.
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But that's exactly what taking these precautions is: an act of altruism.
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They live complex social lives, cooperate, show altruism and grieve their dead.
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The authorities assigned to track her down fail to appreciate her altruism.
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We rely on a corporation's altruism to protect the flow of information.
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Mr. Trump displays neither empathy nor altruism, and his egocentrism is staggering.
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She "embodied the definition of altruism," her family said in a statement.
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Many unheralded moments of courage, altruism and sacrifice lurk behind news stories.
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But I think people within the effective altruism movement way overrate it.
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That has earned effective altruism criticism from more traditional corners of philanthropy.
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Mr. Zhang makes no effort to conceal the mixed motivations behind his altruism.
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While financial gain is indeed a motivation for many surrogates, so is altruism.
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There was always a 'reason,' at times masked with fake altruism or benevolence.
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But CEOs have had a hard time balancing altruism with their bottom lines.
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An economist, Ariel claims that altruism runs counter to his way of thinking.
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But it is not out of altruism or charity, nor is it nefarious.
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The first was basic altruism or the act or belief of being selfless.
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There is no altruism in the design philosophy of Westworld or Robert Ford.
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There's some real community-driven altruism springing up in response to this crisis.
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Perhaps it's because it offers a heady mix of altruism, power and ego.
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Altruism, Churchland argues, originated with food-sharing between mammal parents and their infants.
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So in most relationships, they end anyway, even when factoring in the altruism.
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Mentoring requires the altruism of passing wisdom from one generation to the next.
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According to Shonibare, philanthropy has nothing to do with altruism, generosity, or benevolence.
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Maintaining social distance and voluntarily quarantining yourself is part self-interest, part altruism.
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She finds them scary and superficial, their residents lacking in curiosity and altruism.
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I think I interpreted it mostly through the lens of altruism and generosity.
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"The Dutch were not acting out of altruism or good fellowship," he wrote.
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After all, American engagement in the Middle East is not based on altruism.
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That they had a dark and brutal side, but also love, compassion, altruism.
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And, it puts American altruism at the forefront of our shared border mission.
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Price's altruism was all-consuming, to a point of self-destruction and collapse.
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The altruism of gospel is often something that's aspiration rather than genuinely felt.
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My personal attitudes toward charity and altruism, in part, have been shaped by wanting to live up to the ideals Farmer has shown me, because if pure altruism really does exist in humans, it probably looks a lot like him.
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But altruism that isn't fortified by rigor or metrics can lead to disastrous results.
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He became a billionaire through altruism and simply telling it likes he sees it.
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China's recent actions further undermine its professions of altruism and redraw the strategic map.
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King Harrow's idealism and altruism evidently play a significant role in his own demise.
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It is hard to gauge quite how big the effective-altruism movement has become.
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But can altruism in these games be explained by people's politeness, compassion, or both?
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Nothing like a little altruism to light a fire under a skeptical anchor's ass.
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Sommerfeld believes it's increasingly important to show that such programs have value beyond altruism.
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Monday's new moon in Libra occurs in your house of greater community and altruism.
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Creator (and mom) Nicole Jakob explains that kits are designed to teach kids altruism.
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Because that's the kind of altruism that motivates many people to join clinical trials.
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The top traits include intellect, altruism, cheerfulness, assertiveness and cautiousness, depending on the industry.
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Altruism does exist, the study says—it's just not very prevalent among younger people.
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These industries don't exist out of some corporate altruism, they exist because they're profitable.
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But Google and Facebook don't steer news consumers to news sites out of altruism.
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Is what we think of as altruism only another example of Darwinian self-preservation?
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But the planned shift wasn't exactly a result of altruism or new corporate strategy.
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MacAskill credits effective altruism with helping him emerge from a sustained bout of depression.
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This time, perhaps not altogether seriously, he attributed her choice of costume to altruism.
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At the least you have to do a pantomime of altruism and self-effacement.
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But it's a statement about the value of all-consuming altruism as an ethos.
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I have read studies suggesting ambient food odors trigger altruism—maybe it is true.
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Also, effective altruism has made a significant difference in that hundreds of millions — soon to be billions — of dollars have gone to more effective organizations and thus done more good than they would have if the effective altruism movement had never existed.
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But alongside that ambivalence towards foreign entanglements, he offered a message of altruism and exceptionalism.
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This portion of the experiment was meant to test the true altruism of the donors.
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Volunteering became a civic duty on par with taxes, and everyone had their reasons. Altruism.
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Be that as it may, as this study shows, such altruism is real and universal.
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Discussions of human altruism are often framed in terms of someone drowning in a pond.
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Altruism, in its purest form, is hard to define and a source of surprising debate.
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All of these are seemingly instinctively altruistic behaviors -- but with humans, decoding altruism gets trickier.
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There's a theory that altruism is driven by empathy, writes Christian Jarrett in The Psychologist.
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People who are motivated more by altruism than personal pleasure score higher on grit scales.
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Self-oriented motives like interest and other-oriented motives like altruism are not mutually exclusive.
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Altruism builds pro-social behavior, making us feel connected to others and good about ourselves.
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We thank Mark Zuckerberg III for his altruism, even as his once mighty kingdom crumbles.
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Altruism, trust, cooperation and virtue are unaffordable luxuries in the struggle of all against all.
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That's what's remarkable about the film: You can see the double-edged sword of altruism.
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"Altruism is dangerous," drawls Joe (Penn Badgley) in his reprised voiceover for You Season 2.
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If they go public, should their powers be used for profit, self-protection or altruism?
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This braiding of altruism and ambition is a signal feature of the Valley's self-image.
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Delo's choice of donations is very much influenced by the philosophy known as effective altruism.
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Told like that, it seems obvious that everything was connected—he studied the concept of family because of the way he'd left his wife and daughters; his subsequent altruism was related to the equation he discovered; his suicide was a result of his extreme altruism.
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Reese is all about effective altruism—practical and near-term solutions that move his cause forward.
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One example of the widespread altruism in the CCM field is Smith, now an elder statesmen.
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But his altruism isn't limited to improving health care and access to education around the world.
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After our family, the next circle of altruism is extended to friends and coworkers, for example.
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With reciprocal altruism, scientists say, our true motivations may be tainted, and hidden even from ourselves.
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Our decision to invest nearly $500 million with diverse managers was not an act of altruism.
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So if your sense of altruism isn't motivating enough, maybe your competitive side will jump in?
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Their motive isn't simply green-tinged altruism -- although they're acutely cognizant of climate change and pollution.
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" Holofcener told me that she inherited her altruism from her mother: "She has a bleeding heart.
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In real life, the push of selfishness is matched by the pull of empathy and altruism.
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We see altruism every day, but no one will rely on it as a business strategy.
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Her Baha'i beliefs in peace, altruism and humanity were, undoubtedly, instrumental to Sabet's perseverance in prison.
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Yes, my altruism and friendliness are coping strategies, but they are also a part of me.
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Researchers and patients describe a mix of motives: desperation, altruism, trust in the investigators and sponsors.
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Future Perfect is deeply inspired by a movement known as effective altruism, or EA for short.
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At that altitude, there is no room for error and altruism is put to the test.
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After all, part of altruism is helping others even when it means incurring a personal cost.
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Human altruism seems even stranger when we consider it against the backdrop of the animal kingdom.
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The air crackles with the distinctive combination of altruism and entrepreneurialism which governs the tech world.
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However, I don't like that question becoming the dominant public face of the effective altruism movement.
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The leading website that really talks about career choice in effective altruism terms is 80,000 hours.org.
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Altruism may not be in our blood, but we seem to demand it of our institutions.
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There's plenty of self-interest in climate mitigation, but there's also an ineradicable element of altruism.
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The effective altruism movement, built by millennials, is part of this trend toward living more ethically.
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Can you sum up the philosophy of effective altruism for people who aren't familiar with it?
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He proposed that altruism could have evolved within family groups—yes, an individual altruist would seem to be at a disadvantage, but that was not the whole picture because other individuals who shared the same genes associated with altruism would all influence each other's 'inclusive fitness'.
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So I'd rather have an effective altruism movement that talks a lot about effective altruism with regards to extreme poverty and talks a lot about what we can do to reduce the suffering of billions of animals right here and now, particularly the animals in factory farms.
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Patients are entitled to competence, altruism, morality, integrity, accountability, transparency, objectivity, and promotion of the public good.
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Using this sensual and enchanting technique, allows us to spread a message of altruism and environmental awareness.
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His comment really captured my imagination and set me on an exploration for the origins of altruism.
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As the rains persisted and the flooding spread, the cavalry arrived in the form of American altruism.
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But prosecutors do not negotiate in the name of altruism; they require some tangible benefit in return.
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Research has shown that some people stay in unhappy relationships longer than they should because of altruism.
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But this is not altruism; it's just smart business that took way too long to figure out.
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Groups enable people to experience the universality of our flaws and provide the opportunity to practice altruism.
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Thanks for listening this season, and please continue to read Vox's effective altruism articles at Future Perfect!
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For a brief time, the people embraced their own agency, creativity, hard work, altruism, collectivity and diversity.
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Of course, all this altruism can also be used to deflect an activist investor or poor performance.
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"Philanthropy is not altruism," says Shannon Farley, co-founder of Fast Forward, an accelerator for tech nonprofits.
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February 11-17 marks Random Acts of Kindness Week, an annual occasion to unite humanity through altruism.
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If people decide that they want to follow the effective altruism model, how can they get started?
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Without the incentivized altruism, many of these pieces (and many more still) remain concealed away from public view.
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He doesn't come from a planet where heroism is rewarded, he doesn't come from a background of altruism.
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Donating money to a charity might be motivated by altruism, and yet, only 1% of donations are anonymous.
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The "effective altruism" movement, a group of scientifically minded do-gooders, argue that this view is too pessimistic.
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Maybe even altruism: In a crowded situation, people might be less likely to be helpful to each other.
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Unlike some of YouTube's most successful enterprises, Nahdi's videos brim with altruism, which is kind of the point.
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Yes — both characters are motivated by a bevy of things, which includes altruism but also includes other motivations.
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This looks like an outbreak of altruism in a country often charged with lacking a sense of morality.
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Because realism, rather than altruism, has been the guiding influence on the application of military power for decades.
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Therefore, he concludes, efforts to publicize acts that elevate such as altruism can have widespread network-based results.
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It was amazing that the Democrats could look at this record of altruism and only question its motivations.
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Altruism was identified in three ways: self-reported responses about charitable giving, observed charitable actions, and brain response.
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Doing something morally right — like humanitarian relief, helping dissidents, or spending to fight global AIDS — isn't pure altruism.
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Stressing the certainty of risk, in other words, more effectively motivates altruism than stressing the possibility of harm.
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Those who had the biggest jumps in empathy and altruism scores had the largest reductions in cardiovascular risk.
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R.I. scans showed greater activity in a portion of the brain, the temporo-parietal junction, associated with altruism.
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The money that flows through Twitch from viewers to streamers is almost always based on altruism and emotion.
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And that's exactly what happened during a study published Tuesday that tests the beginnings of altruism in humans.
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A lot of these plans will fail, but Google isn't making big, long-term bets out of altruism.
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The liberal democratic state sublimates revenge, just as it does heroism and altruism, into the integrity of institutions.
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"I have said it before, and I'll say it again: I want altruism and narcissism to be combined."
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One of the things that the "effective" dimension of effective altruism forces people to really embrace is rigor.
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But the paradox of "Jeremy Bearimy" is the way that it depicts what true altruism might look like.
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But as the caravan makes its final approach to the US border, this altruism appears to have run dry.
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Some worry that firms motivated by profit rather than altruism may be careless in their spending, or even steal.
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With both Sam and Nick, Jess displays the kind of altruism that most of us can only hope for.
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As a result, reciprocal altruism is often more attractive than the cutthroat approach that prevails in single-shot situations.
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One of the biggest intellectual achievements of the effective-altruism movement has come in the form of charity evaluation.
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On the other, they're known for grand acts of altruism in the name of what is right and good.
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The first is altruism: The gift of a body will benefit medical science and, by extension, others in need.
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His latest act of altruism also follows his label boss, Diddy, announcing a new charter school in the Bronx.
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We don't need altruism as justification for supporting environmental regulations; it's simply in our best interest to do so.
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He lacks any sort of moral compass and is missing a core code of benevolence, service, altruism and humility.
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Taking flak: Former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the company was not acting out of altruism.
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But it's not just altruism: China has an eye on ensuring stability for its hefty investments in the region.
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"I strongly believe you can combine the highest quality of service with the core mission of altruism," she said.
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The first episode of the Future Perfect podcast is all about kidney donation and its connection to effective altruism.
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THE HARD PROBLEM Are we just a bundle of neurons, or can altruism and morality actually drive our decisions?
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"If we can discover how to promote altruism our kids, this could move us toward a more caring society."
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The reality is that this paradigm shift toward a value-based sustainable culture does not require altruism, just pragmatism.
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Something in her that the victim believes to be irretrievably destroyed — faith, courage, decency — is reawakened by common altruism.
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The resultant gratitude is more likely to stick around in the brain — and where gratitude abounds, altruism may follow.
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This rest also improves prosocial behaviors, such as altruism and a greater tolerance of "out-group" members, and empathy.
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Full disclosure: I support the effective altruism movement and consider it a force for positive change in the world.
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Secondly, there has been quite a lot of interest in the effective altruism community in international labor and mobility.
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The other route to co-operation is reciprocal altruism of the "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" variety.
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Men who scored higher on altruism also reported more sexual partners, and more casual hook-ups compared to female participants.
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Shunning his own advice, Mr Harris has since left finance to work for the Centre for Effective Altruism in Oxford.
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Our thought bubble: Giving Google the benefit of the doubt doesn't mean assuming that it's acting purely out of altruism.
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Charitable giving and altruism certainly make people feel better about themselves (studies have found this is true even for infants).
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Many biologists believe we evolved this way and point out that altruism "feels good," even though it requires personal sacrifice.
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By learning to stop short of hurting—or even by taking a dive—kids develop standards of fairness and altruism.
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Marsh studies groups of people who exhibit unusually high levels of altruism, like those who donate their organs to strangers.
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We've had decades of public policies, civil engagement and private environmental altruism — and we still need each of those tools.
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In Rao's view, Trump's "America First" slogan is an honest declaration, a realist vision stripped of false altruism and piety.
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By building altruism into its business model, Bombas joins a growing list of so-called buy-one-give-one companies.
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Some theories suggest it's a form of altruism, though southern pied babblers would likely be an exception to that rule.
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I reached out to Julia Wise, president of Giving What We Can at the Centre for Effective Altruism, for advice.
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I first heard about effective altruism five or six years ago, and came to it through a group called GiveWell.
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Her adoption could have been inspired by something we humans might interpret as altruism — if such a thing truly exists.
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The data-based reports of effective altruism and groups that share its philosophy provide a good starting point for donors.
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"Effective altruism" calls for using cost-benefit analysis to back nonprofits that can show the most measurable and demonstrable results.
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Weinstein touted the actor Gwyneth Paltrow as an example of his gendered altruism whilst he headed the movie studio Miramax.
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This mirrors the fact that women will put qualities like altruism before attractiveness when they're picking a potential love interest.
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Sure. Effective altruism is about trying to use your time and money as well as possible to help other people.
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In many places, that early altruism has hardened into resentment — an ominous turn for those searching for safety from the war.
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I hate that this controversy happened, but I stand for art, altruism and enlightenment, and I'll never back down from that.
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Consider common appeals to allyship and altruism; such locutions convey a sort of optional quality, a moralistic tone, and unreliable trendiness.
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Effective Altruism finds the charities with the most positive impact in those areas and routes the donation for you for free.
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And arguments from him and others have turned "long-termism" into a very vibrant, important strand of the effective altruism community.
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"But there also is such profoundness in just connectivity and energy and altruism that we have with our animals," Barrymore said.
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Whatever the rights and wrongs of that momentous shift in social and economic conditions, it had nothing to do with altruism.
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Some have praised the businessman for his altruism, while others have suggested that his actions seem short-sighted and even opportunistic.
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Later, other market theorists would define rationality according to market behavior, allowing them to understand, for example, altruism as self-interest.
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The ultimate result of kin selection would be a kind of altruism, but it would be limited to your kin group.
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Majhor joined over a million people attempting to reach Europe in 2016 and as refugee numbers swelled, European altruism wore thin.
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Many people just want to help, and these groups have been a great vehicle for the pandemic-induced upsurge of altruism.
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The lust for greed and power has destroyed the beauty we inherited, but altruism, compassion and love have not been destroyed.
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That includes our professorial narrator, Safi, whom Mr. Ahmad presents, beautifully, as a man ultimately stranded between altruism and self-preservation.
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Appealing to the homeless in problematic ways to boost the perceived altruism of Bitcoin is not relegated to this one article.
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But Mr. Gilbert said the park was offered in line with the company's longtime altruism and not as an olive branch.
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"He has the potential to do good," Brafman argued, citing Shkreli's intellectual brilliance and altruism toward others less fortunate than himself.
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Ben Sender, a senior at Princeton University and founder of student-run investment fund Effective Altruism Investments (EAI), does just that.
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His book Animal Liberation helped build America's animal rights movement and his work more broadly helped create the effective altruism movement.
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Goldman does indeed have a culture of encouraging public service, but it isn't entirely driven by altruism, James B. Stewart notes.
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Christian claims the museum's piece is about the importance of altruism in a world that appears to be turning increasingly isolationist.
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The artist dismisses what she calls her idealistic desire to "change the world," but her life has been undeniably shaped by altruism.
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What Mr Trump misses is that, in past crises, altruism has helped to unite America and to make it strong, not weak.
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Without that, there's nothing to protect the most vulnerable people on the platform from this impenetrable tangle of altruism and e-commerce.
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Interspecies altruism is adorable when it's framed as a "cute animal friends" special on Animal Planet, but in the wild, it's rare.
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John is involved with effective altruism, a movement to address the world's most pressing problems in the most cost-effective ways possible.
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Past research has shown that awestruck experiences like the ones the astronauts described appear to have psychological benefits, especially relating to altruism.
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Thatgamecompany's latest title, Sky: Children of the Light, is an exploration into altruism and kindness, wrapped up in a beautiful mobile experience.
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And when you're part of a subculture like effective altruism, it's rare to see any of your values reflected in mainstream politics.
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Another surprising, and controversial, suggestion within effective altruism is that boycotting sweatshops in the developing world often does more harm than good.
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No American president can erode the culture of altruism, adventure and patriotism that has permeated the Peace Corps since the organization's inception.
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They also tested for altruism by planting wallets containing money but no key, the one item specifically valuable for the wallet's owner.
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In the past, it's typically been philosophers who've investigated issues of morality and altruism, and they've focused a lot on sacrificial dilemmas.
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The world has been able to see some of the dramatic rescues and acts of altruism that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.
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On bad days, when Wilson felt down or upset, he thought of Farris and his altruism after the loss his family suffered.
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They are not a sudden burst of altruism, guilty conscience or even a reverse marketing ploy by Philip Morris USA, et. al.
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"Giving with the spirit of reciprocity shifts the focus of giving from altruism to relationship," Edgar Villanueva, author of "Decolonizing Wealth," explained.
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Washington embraced a vision for an open America that could almost be read today as a form of deep idealism or altruism.
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The WALL-E scenario doesn't ring true to her because human beings are motivated by things other than money: altruism, creativity, pride, etc.
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It's the ultimate act of altruism: sacrificing a potentially fulfilling life in order to ensure that her brother isn't alone in this world.
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The same was true of humans—natural selection was intrinsically stacked against any altruistic individual surviving long enough to pass on their altruism.
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This work suggested that many of the social behaviors observed in people, including virtuous traits like altruism, could be attributed to natural selection.
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The West did not intervene in Afghanistan out of altruism, but to stem the tide of terrorism emerging from the country and region.
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This altruism seems to give little comfort to those George Mason law students who say they are are pained by Justice Scalia's ideology.
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The problem is, all the altruism that went into the model at its launch didn't follow through to a second generation of developers.
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According to the study: This is Zuckerberg's personality mapped out by Paysa: Other notable traits he apparently possesses include modesty, assertiveness and altruism.
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Later in life, she might find herself drawn to the sort of carefully tested "effective altruism" that my colleague Peter Singer has advocated.
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Among primates, the sense of reciprocal altruism emerges from food sharing, and they are always systemically touching each other as they share food.
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More recently he has been interested in effective altruism, which asks: How can we use what we have to help others the most?
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Some locals pull shipwrecked European explorers onto the rocky shores in a gesture of altruism; others draw weapons in defense of their lands.
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"Altruism is quite similar to investing, as both require a truth-seeking, honest process to find the best use for money," says Sender.
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In a 2017 study of psychological resilience among American military veterans, higher levels of gratitude, altruism and a sense of purpose predicted resiliency.
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Clearly, Poulson's dramatic tale of disavowing his act of altruism resonated with the public in a way that Thomas's enthusiastic endorsement did not.
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He says he was driven by the work of fellow Oxford graduate Will MacAskill, one of the founders of the effective altruism movement.
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Thinking about this in the context of the effective altruism community, ask yourself: What percentage of effective altruists should be earning to give?
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The criticism lobbed against Melania has been that the altruism she talks about having is not matched by her actions — it's not even close.
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Motivated by altruism and an affinity to the ideals of Bitnation, he became an ambassador and registered Schloss Heinrichshorst as an embassy last year.
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Donors don't just want to be altruistic, they also want credit for that altruism plus badges to signal to others about their altruistic ways.
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Our businesslike efforts to measure and improve quality are now blocking the altruism, indeed the love, that motivates people to enter the helping professions.
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Along those lines, we should all aspire to spark our own little epidemiologies of altruism this Thanksgiving, whenever we are not stuffing our faces.
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This was not an act of altruism — the companies still turned a small profit on the sales and managed to boost their corporate reputations.
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Hopefully, by continuing to question and explore our relationship with the online world and finding humor and altruism when things get – you know, shitty.
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I'm sort of curious as somebody who's been working in aid for decades, how have you seen effective altruism influence what everyone is doing?
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In fact, in 50 v 50, players seem to go out of their way to assist strangers and with a borderline self-sacrificial altruism.
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Companies need to trust Appalachians to call upon the resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, ingenuity and altruism that have always guided this part of the country.
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What's more, we had a good long-term memory and a capacity for high levels of cooperation, with altruism being a strong motivating factor.
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If altruism does not work in getting vulnerabilities fixed, she said, it should not be a surprise that researchers turn to the free market.
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Where the philosopher presented altruism as a path to a higher self, Mr Blair sometimes seemed to put more stress on enlightened self-interest.
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Musk has also expressed that he wants his work to help the world prepare for a brighter tomorrow, a key marker of his altruism.
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Photograph by Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Burnett sometimes went so far as to imply that Trump's involvement in "The Apprentice" was a form of altruism.
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But Trump lives in an alternative, amoral Howard Stern universe where he cannot enjoy the sweetness that altruism and community service can occasionally bring.
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However, all that hard work and altruism doesn't necessarily come to mind when you've had eight pints and a bag of Dust Til Dawn.
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The star's altruism is likely influenced by what he says is the best advice he's ever received: Don't do things just for the money.
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Giving reduces pain The studies, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, tested various scenarios of altruism in 287 people.
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New technologies like artificial intelligence, 5G and the Internet of Things all "want to solve three problems: sustainable development, inclusion, and altruism," he added.
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The result is a tasteless viral video that highlights the very chasm between altruism and self-promotion that the film interrogates with biting ease.
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It's generally understood that helping out others makes a person feel nice, but that experience goes beyond just the feel-good glow of altruism.
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Recent research published in the British Journal of Psychology showed that altruism may put you in the best position (ahem) to find a willing partner.
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Indeed, the best evidence suggests that the strongest predictors of foreign aid are political and strategic and interests of donor countries and not global altruism.
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Opposable thumbs, cranial size, altruism and cooking all played a part, but central to the naked ape's success was its ability to dominate other species.
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If so, it is then a sort of reciprocal altruism, charity with the expectation of something -- money, good will, a favor or recognition -- in return?
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Julie notably loves her nonexistent career more than her stable boyfriend and eschews kindness or altruism in favor of doing something that only benefits her.
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Jelly is like a time-delayed Google with a human being on the other end The app is still based on altruism and good faith.
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But the lower bumping rates aren't evidence of some kind of larger airline altruism at play, even if it may have been framed as such.
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To be sure Kazakhstan's commitment to international cooperation in denuclearization and anti-proliferation activities works to enhance its international influence and is not just altruism.
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" As the science director of Stanford's Center For Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Seppälä says she knows "self-compassion" can sound "soft" or "idealistic.
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So we're less altruistic, and also less good to our future selves (which, at least for me, feels motivated by the same impulse as altruism).
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For starters, it depends on the voluntary generosity of these companies to deal with an unprecedented emergency, an altruism that could vanish at any time.
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He says there are at least three principles to keep in mind as humans create super-intelligent machines: altruism, humility, and the ability to learn.
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That's the same mentality, He explains, behind his work in effective altruism, an aggressively utilitarian philosophical and social movement bolstered by the philosopher Peter Singer.
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Like any donor, she gives not out of sheer altruism, but also out of a desire for recognition, for admiration of her skill and talent.
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While the neo-Hobbesians struggle to explain how human altruism can exist, other scientists question their premise, asking if there's any functional utility to selfishness.
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" Ayanna, who is a graduate student studying urban planning, added: "We can't depend on the altruism of the wealthy to help solve the housing crisis.
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I set off on a mission to conquer the English language, and to embrace an ambitious altruism that would bring glory to my humble family.
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So, I think effective altruism is more aware of this criticism than they were maybe five years ago and are starting to respond to it.
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Bernie Sanders variety (or maybe a bit to the left of that), and left-libertarians from the Bay Area who are interested in effective altruism.
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The distinction between giving and receiving, altruism and selfishness faded away because in giving to the unit you are giving to a piece of yourself.
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Such sudden altruism will likely inspire copycats but, without structural change, the system will continue to indenture college graduates, whose debt burden totals $1.6 trillion.
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For more of Vox's coverage on effective altruism and the bigger project of making the world a better place, see our new vertical, Future Perfect.
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The effective altruism movement is an attempt to answer these questions, and hopefully make it easier for everyone to do more good in the world.
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If you didn't know about the deep altruism of the noble corgi — dogs known for having both the purest hearts and funniest butts — you know now.
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" A global training manual drafted in 2015 declared that people who disclose sensitive information do so with a range of motivations: "Fear; Revenge; Money; Repentance; Altruism.
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Her thesis, that a cynical pursuit of altruism undermines self-esteem, innovation, evolution and broad prosperity, resonates as—or perhaps because—public support for socialism grows.
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We've rounded up 11 businesses in the U.S. that build service and altruism into their business models, giving back to a number of communities and causes.
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When he confidently proclaimed in his condescending, high-pitched voice that his equation could explain the evolution of altruism, they probably thought he was a crank.
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Along the way, he derived his equation of natural selection, which helped to prove that altruism was not selfless and moral, but rather selfish and genetic.
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Many of these donors work in Silicon Valley, where "effective altruism," a movement that advocates giving money to the most cost-effective charities, has taken hold.
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Economic games have a long history in behavioral economics and evolutionary biology, where they have helped debunk assumptions of human selfishness with evidence for our altruism.
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" Instead, the participants said they had "long-term changes in thoughts, affects, deciders or behaviors," and "increased aesthetic appreciation, and heightened altruism and pro-social attitudes.
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Perhaps the most interesting idea within the effective altruism movement is that we should not just worry about present day humans but future humans as well.
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They received a flurry of international press, so much that they could barely keep up with it—they weren't expecting to be highlighted for their altruism.
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It's hard to make a case for the altruism involved in deceased organ donation when our medical system has historically not been altruistic to black people.
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Though somewhat different from Friedrich Nietzsche or Max Stirner, her rejection of religious and socialist ethics lay in the total repudiation of the morality of altruism.
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But, according to Stanford psychologist and science director of Stanford's Center For Compassion and Altruism Research Emma Seppälä, there are ways to beat the holiday blues.
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Amid those conditions, neighbors in the Florida Keys put their own interests aside to help each other -- and one act of altruism fed into the next.
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The software could be shared freely, but he requested that, if you liked it, you mail him $25—something he claimed was more economics than altruism.
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I think the effective altruism movement in some sense misses an opportunity to draw on the very powerful role that narratives play in shaping our psychology.
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"Continued research would be desirable to more fully understand what maximizes the expression of altruism in young children," said the study's lead author, Rodolfo Cortes Barragan.
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"Ultimately, corporate America has never been shy to profit using the veneer of altruism — this is, after all, the root of concepts like "greenwashing" and "pinkwashing.
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Their caution had little to do with wisdom or altruism and everything to do with self-interest: Dictators are all about surviving and remaining in power.
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I wish that I could take a reprieve from politics and simply focus on the human suffering and human altruism on display in the affected areas.
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It would at best be naïve to think that for-profit companies, out of pure altruism, would lower drug prices to help sick and dying patients.
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Thanks to the Effective Altruism movement and organizations such as DataKind, this separation is starting to disappear, but there is still much more work to be done.
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The two women are being framed as philosophical opponents in the battle for what it means to be human: is it altruism, the ability to willingly sacrifice?
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When Rebekah Ceidro, 33, saw on Facebook last July that her longtime co-worker Chris Moore was in need of a kidney, her altruism kicked into gear.
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Research by the Centre for Effective Altruism, a think-tank he co-founded, finds that every dollar raised by one charity means 50 cents less for others.
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Some people think technological developments and altruism are kind of tied together, and the more technologically advanced a species becomes the more altruistic or friendly it becomes.
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You know he gives the cops coffee as a part of a mutual professional bargain, but it was altruism that had him try and rescue the cat.
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They added that his overtures at altruism constituted its own scheme, and that plenty of anxious or depressed people are high-functioning citizens who don't commit felonies.
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I recently attended a conference at Harvard University about a fledgling movement called effective altruism (EA), popularized by philosophers like William MacAskill and Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz.
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That established a baseline level of altruism against which to compare the results from the first experiment, in which lying was the route to a bigger payoff.
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Galleries looking for fresh names to promote and sell have more than altruism in mind: They are sensing opportunity "to cultivate a new market," Ms. Kruger said.
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I am speaking of generosity, altruism and support for one's neighbors, with no distinction made between "makers" and "takers" as everyone faces torrents of water and wind.
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But at a time when social distancing is paramount, it's prudent, if not a show of societal altruism, to avoid crowds and large gatherings if you can.
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These scams can come in the form of financial investment offers, loan schemes, charitable crowdfunding pages or countless other predatory tactics hidden beneath a veneer of altruism.
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"It's given him a great, great deal of credibility with people who, but for his philanthropy or altruism, he never would have interfaced with," Mr. Benjamin said.
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One of the things a lot of people in the effective altruism movement have become very committed to is the idea of existential risk in the future.
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Violence and destruction have a way of draining hope, but acts of altruism and selflessness under duress offered a sliver of light when people most needed it.
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In the official paperwork, the grants looked like the kind of research efforts the government might be funding; altruism was slapped on like a coat of shellac.
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Since r is necessarily much higher for blood relatives, the equation explains the origins of altruism as an outgrowth of sacrifice for the sake of one's kin.
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"Natural selection is indifferent to why individuals end up together in groups," historian Oren Harman explains in his punnily titled biography of Price, The Price of Altruism.
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And Tahani, though still tethered to her enormous fortune, has a better handle on what to do with it (and true altruism in general) thanks to Jason.
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In some models, there were even large cascade effects called "epidemiologies of altruism," which were characterized by "an explosive increase of altruistic acts," according to Nowak and Roch.
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After graduating I became obsessed with researching genetics and altruism, trying to reconcile my politics with a biological world (and an industry) that seemed harsh, judgmental and competitive.
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If we aren't nearly as heartless as we assume ourselves to be, for instance, then there might be ways to boost our sense of social altruism even more.
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After spending so much time with Farmer over the last few decades, we have become close friends, but I am still not entirely sure what motivates his altruism.
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When news broke earlier this week of the brave bakers stuck inside an El Bolillo in Houston during Hurricane Harvey, it garnered international attention because of their altruism.
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In "The Happiness Track," Emma Seppala, science director of Stanford's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, argues that self-compassion is a key component of success.
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Dr. William Schulze, a professor of agricultural economics and public policy at Cornell University, said the motivations for sustainable purchasing range from altruism to self-image and reputation.
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He lauded Castro, who he regarded as a father, for the ideals of altruism and internationalism he instilled in his people; Roberto cried when he heard the news.
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It's perhaps a surprising bit of altruism, though not to anyone who's ever listened to a friend worry about what a breakup would do to their significant other.
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" The distinction can be hard to make, especially when altruism is so gendered that a man's thoughtful act—"Listen, they don't have red peppers, but is yellow ok?
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In this episode, the host Sam Harris and Mr. MacAskill discuss radical altruism, moral illusions and existential risk, and you may come away wanting to live more generously.
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" Such conversations prompted the museum to include stories of the "myriad ways ordinary people responded to the unfolding genocide, including inspiring stories of resistance, resilience, courage, and altruism.
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If you design a world economy that rewards blind self-interest and makes altruism unaffordable, it's unsurprising that some people start acting like they're in the prisoner's dilemma.
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In "The Happiness Track," Emma Seppala, science director of Stanford's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, argues that self-compassion is a key component of success.
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They are twitchy that alternatives to fast-fashion, such as resale and rental clothing, which promote the peaceful coexistence of altruism and narcissism, might be on the rise.
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It is somewhat inaccurate, and a bit too glib, to say that Price's suicide was solely a result of his efforts at extreme altruism tearing his life apart.
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With that being said, I think the piece still offers a useful glimpse into how Open Philanthropy operates, and into effective altruism as a worldview and a practice.
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Effective altruism holds that giving abroad is probably a better idea than giving in the US. It suggests that giving to disaster relief is worse than giving elsewhere.
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With the ability to deduct a qualifying donation from your 2016 taxes, many are inspired by altruism—or self-interest—to write that check before the new year hits.
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The results of two trials conducted by Canadian researchers showed that men and women who scored higher on altruism also said they were more desirable to the opposite sex.
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Plus, by watching all the days at once you can see how Connors' response to his situation develops: from bafflement, to irritation, to hedonism, then suicide, altruism, and beyond.
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It has to do with an idea called effective altruism: the notion that we should be trying harder to use evidence and careful analysis to build a better world.
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Even if it did, it shouldn't undo the goodness of altruism, and yet people can be deeply suspicious of those who apparently willingly put others' interests before their own.
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The team is currently studying whether being called narcissistic makes people decide to live up to the label, or if they overcompensate and show increased altruism and empathy instead.
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As some observers have pointed out, it's not entirely altruism on Brady's part: He took a $30 million "signing bonus" in addition to the lower yearly salaries going forward.
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Reforming billionaires down the ages display the same bizarre mix of good and bad qualities—of grandiosity and problem-solving genius, naivety and fresh thinking, self-importance and altruism.
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Ever since, she's dedicated her work to empathy and altruism—both qualities thought to be brought on by a blurring of the line between the self and the other.
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But even with the altruism of others, federal employees are still grappling with the loss of their income -- and the possibility that it isn't coming back any time soon.
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"His act of great bravery exemplifies the values which help unite our national community, such as courage, selflessness, altruism and taking care of the most vulnerable," the decree reads.
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This recognition that government can be a source of good needs to be reawakened, along with appreciation for the virtue of altruism and a commitment to the common good.
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Effective altruism has hit on a really fundamental, important insight: Relatively few people and organizations conduct themselves as though they're actively trying to do as much good as possible.
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When you write about the implications of your studies, you talk specifically about effective altruism, a movement supported by Peter Singer, who's probably the most influential utilitarian philosopher alive.
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Stalingrad is, among other things, a testament to the human capacity to rally the bravery, altruism, and resilience needed to bring the world back from the brink of destruction.
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How it fits: The planet needs more than altruism to save it in our capitalistic society — it needs the risk of financial losses and the potential for financial gain.
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Facing it well requires many qualities — a sense of one's own limits, humor, altruism, endurance, humility, self-knowledge — that young lovers have not yet been called upon to develop.
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The researchers found children who felt connected to nature -- feeling pleasure when seeing wildflowers and animals, hearing sounds of nature -- engaged in altruism, or actions that helped other people.
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Why you should consider donating: Let's Fund, which is guided by "the principles of Effective Altruism" in its recommendations, argues it's the best place to donate for climate change.
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And the gang's choice to lie to Brent to trick him into performing good deeds — in the hope that his altruism will prove infectious — suggests that only challenges lie ahead.
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Emma Seppala, science director of Stanford's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, wrote in her recent book "The Happiness Track" that successful people don't agonize over their shortcomings.
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A big driver of this altruism is "humans, young or old, are pretty good at recognizing injustice when they see it," he added, and they reflexively want to fix it.
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"The present findings directly link objectively measured empathy and altruism," the authors wrote, though they noted that their findings need to be replicated in less extreme altruists in the future.
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Hamilton showed mathematically that altruism can be a beneficial reproductive strategy for an organism, so long as the altruistic act benefits another organism to which it is sufficiently genetically similar.
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Yet while telecom and web companies cite altruism as propelling free or low-cost broadband programs, what is often left unsaid are the benefits the services bring to the companies.
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You'd be in good company: Movements like effective altruism (EA) have argued that people should try harder to identify high-impact charities, and direct more of their money toward them.
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I found myself rooting for the Alters to finally turn a little of their altruism on themselves so that, healed, they could make more effective stabs at doing good elsewhere.
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Both biological and cultural influences play a role in altruism, but to find out exactly what those influences are and how they interrelate, we need a lot more experimental research.
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I think that that would make effective altruism a quite narrow movement of reasonably sophisticated thinkers who go through these calculations and think about people living centuries into the future.
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The couple is guided by effective altruism, a philosophy popular with West Coast philanthropists that says donors should choose projects that deliver the greatest social benefits as efficiently as possible.
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I was too young to understand police officers as anything other than wells of altruism, as that is how they were rendered on the television programs I watched each afternoon.
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In Orphan Black's "The Scandal of Altruism," the show bid farewell to Kendall Malone, who was killed off by a surprising new villain that was hidden in plain sight: Evie Chen.
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How this altruism evolved is much debated by biologists and anthropologists—particularly when it extends, as in Dr Cohn's experiments, to strangers whom the altruist has no expectation of ever meeting.
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This is on my mind because of a new report issued by a group called Let's Fund, which applies the principles of "effective altruism" in guiding donor money to good causes.
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Privately funded initiatives — relying on the spirit of innovation coupled with a sense of altruism — may one day become the norm in helping tackle challenges such as the current refugee crisis.
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Whatever blend of politically ecumenical anti-authoritarianism, high-minded altruism and harmless neurosis may underlie the preparedness, and whatever medical, mechanical or other misfortunes it anticipates, it looks good on everyone.
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But the timing, discipline, and altruism within it are exquisite examples of a methodical system that doesn't bludgeon the defense so much as wait for it to deteriorate on its own.
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The weakest parts of the book have him proclaiming a humble altruism that simply doesn't jibe with the more complicated (and, frankly, more interesting) person he otherwise reveals himself to be.
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During the pandemic, anything we can do to ensure the health care system doesn't become overloaded is an act of altruism — and that includes staying home and asking others for help.
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In retrospect, it has become clear that Western countries complied with refugee rules, and pushed other countries to do the same, less out of altruism than because of Cold War gamesmanship.
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The corporate campaign was the first sign that altruism had little to do with the £221,2200 a month that Bell Pottinger would earn during what was initially a three-month project.
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The family of George H. W. Bush is paying tribute to his altruism — and the organization that carries on that giving spirit still — on the one-year anniversary of his death.
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Data from IBM's supercomputer Watson and job firm Paysa found that Musk's top five personality traits include: intellect, immoderation, cautiousness, emotionality and altruism, all qualities that relate to Musk's emotional intelligence.
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"The vast majority of donors aren't interested in doing any research before making a charitable contribution," Paul Brest, former president of the Hewlett Foundation, wrote in an article praising effective altruism.
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For a male parrot to raise two females from another species is a rare display of altruism, Lindner told me, a behavior long thought to be exclusive to humans and other primates.
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Surveys show that while the effective-altruism movement has grown quickly, it has mainly done so within a limited group of people—ie, young white men with degrees in science and philosophy.
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At the same time, a voucher system could motivate family members to donate out of altruism now rather than hold back in case their loved ones need a kidney in the future.
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I do hope you read that whole blurb because it's a marvel of self-professed altruism and a not-so-subtle reminder that the NIH is biting the hand that fed it.
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I dream of an America that lives right there in those moments of altruism, when people don't hesitate to lift others up knowing that we will all be better off for it.
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I was talking to William D. Hamilton, who was famous for coming up with the theory of "kin selection," which explains patterns of altruism among close relatives in various species, including ours.
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Working out of Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education in 2009, he created the Compassion Cultivation Training, an eight-week course designed with input from neuroscientists and psychologists.
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Silicon Valley's new, moneyed class has a very different view of philanthropy, often inspired by "effective altruism"— using data and analysis to choose causes and approaches that will yield the most impact.
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Frances is committed to a vision of herself as principled and disciplined, motivated by a stringent brand of altruism that seems to her the only rational response to the world's grotesque unfairness.
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Neuroscientists Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman, and Frank Krueger of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) have used fMRI machines to demonstrate that altruism is deeply embedded in human nature.
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Then, we put together a yearbook of sorts to create a very human snapshot of optimism and doubt, altruism, and self-interest — all in this place, in this exact moment in time.
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I tell the story about City Year because I have seen firsthand how their hard work, diligence and altruism pays off in spades, and I want other cities to follow Chicago's lead.
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Look, I can't knock anyone's attempt at altruism and to support a notable cause —the Malala Fund aims to provide safe and free secondary education opportunities to young women in developing countries.
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"What are the things you most value in human civilization today?" asks an article titled "The Long-Term Value Thesis," from 80,000 Hours, an effective altruism career advice site: People being happy?
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I spoke to MacAskill about some of these criticisms and asked him to lay out why he thinks the effective altruism model remains the best way to do good in the world.
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But Lohan also comes off looking like someone who wants to help, who knows she ought to help, but has virtually no practical know-how when it comes to real-world altruism.
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I think that that impulse comes from a place of love and altruism, but [you must] take a step back and ask if your methods are going to work in the long run.
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In the 21972s, apparently, egotistical scientist George Price discovered an equation that explained the evolution of altruism, then overnight turned into an extreme altruist, giving away everything up to and including his life.
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As we recently sat in a Port-au-Prince park, which housed thousands in tents after the earthquake, Farmer told me he believed the earthquake had awakened a "latent altruism" in human beings.
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If only the Australian public were made aware of altruism and charity being the wellspring of lasting happiness, we might feel better for looking beyond ourselves and attending to the plight of others.
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That's because altruism, which is at times "contrary to our own self-interest," may be associated with the brain regions tied to reward processing and pleasure, say neuroscientists who have investigated such behavior.
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It's also possible that his displays of decency toward the villagers are motivated by selfishness as much as altruism and that he may not be the righteous nice guy they take him for.
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And what does this mean for movements like effective altruism, which says we should devote our resources to causes that'll do the most good for people, wherever in the world they might be?
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The platforms should be using their persuasive powers of "social proof" to foster altruism and generosity, highlighting examples of friends who are choosing to help others—say, health care workers or those unemployed.
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In fact, children as young as 1½ demonstrate both empathy and altruism: They will rush to comfort someone who is hurt, and they will spontaneously go out of their way to help someone.
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"It comforts us knowing that the world has a chance to know her and we hope that in this time, people fight with the same altruism rather than anger and hatred," they added.
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If altruism can spread when altruists cluster together, then its opposite — spite, or harming another organism even when one gains no individual benefit from it — can also spread if spiteful organisms cluster together.
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He was the disheartening forbearer to Kevin Durant's current run of financial altruism, a star who trusted a franchise enough to forfeit his own earnings and was given diminishing returns for his troubles.
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In its latest incarnation, Goldman appears to have figured out that rather than being pure altruism, the new fintech ethos of zero fees and pricing transparency is actually an advanced form of self-interest.
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Evolutionary biologists have a hard time explaining altruism and empathy among members of the same species (what's referred to as kin selection) let alone members of completely different species, as is the case here.
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As the years passed, evidence poured in for a similar mechanism in humans, and mirror neurons became implicated in a long list of phenomena, including empathy, imitation, altruism and autism spectrum disorder, among others.
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The victims' loved ones have posted memorials on social media: Altruism and courage are what drove Feis, an assistant football coach, to give his life to save others, the local sheriff and others said.
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Such pure and unadulterated displays of altruism should be celebrated, for while this moment of unity will ebb like the waters which have spilled into Houston's streets, they nevertheless represent our true underlying condition.
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Andy co-founded and is the US Trustee for the Founders Pledge, a charity that promotes altruism in early-stage entrepreneurs by enabling them to donate a percentage of personal proceeds following an exit.
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It appears to, at least for a small group of German college students who participated in a study on the connection between happiness and altruism, the selfless concern for the well-being of others.
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"Free riders threaten society — they undermine the basis of altruism," said Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, who helped write a work requirement into welfare reform in the 1990s.
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As for the Helpful Engineering group, the effective altruism mindset has manifested in He's intent to focus on building tools that are the easiest to create and will do the most amount of good.
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What brings Kanté, the Chelsea midfielder, the most satisfaction in soccer is not, as you perhaps would expect, the sense of having contributed, the warm glow of helping his teammates, seeing his altruism rewarded.
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Sure. But the show also makes room for lingering prejudices — most notably regarding Muslims — and the sense that the altruism that arises in a crisis may evaporate as soon as the crisis is over.
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If the goal is true altruism, then the more a society becomes intertwined, the harder it is to ever extricate yourself from it, even if you're effectively living off the grid like Doug Forcett.
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I think you could make a case that it would be a better world — you would be not giving your talks about effective altruism in front of philanthropists, but in front of government officials.
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If the far future is what matters, and generally trying to make the world work better is among the best ways to help the far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol' do-goodery.
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Story at a glance Children as young as 19 months old are willing to give up food when they are hungry to help others, suggesting altruism begins in infancy, according to a recently released study.
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Some of the most important factors for determining women's success were physical traits such as age and athleticism, while men are being judged by their degree of agreeableness and altruism as well as their athleticism.
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"Our results speak against a fatalistic view about the nature [of] altruism—namely, that it does not exist and people only do good things for self-serving motives and not to actually help," he said.
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Recently, a sweet third grader made national news for using his allowance to pay off his classmates' debt, a feel-good story with a dystopian undercurrent, since individual altruism is no match for systemic desperation.
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For each of these young players, the academy is an opportunity, but the N.B.A. — which pays seven scouts to fan out around the country to identify basketball talents — is not in this business for altruism.
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As young people in their early 20s, Mike and his colleagues felt a sense of altruism and "decided that it would be kind of interesting to help out infertile couples" by donating sperm, he said.
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Because people who read fiction consistently score higher on tests that measure empathy and altruism than those who don't, it's no huge leap to believe that Harry Potter has made the world a better place.
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The public data, which includes more than 10 billion objects, is a resource that data scientists should greatly appreciate it, but Quilt Data is offering access to this data out of more than pure altruism.
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It was a philosophy course that led Sender to launch Effective Altruism in 2015, which is based on the theory that one must "use evidence and careful analysis" in order to do the most good.
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To claim to cherish artistic and intellectual achievement while condemning artists and writers to poverty is to empower fraud, and to deprecate those values — beauty and justice, empathy and altruism — that we derive from literature.
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Altruism in many forms, from donating money to a worthy cause to just random acts of kindness, have been shown to light up the same reward centers of the brain associated with food and sex.
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The strain of American Progressivism that comes from the noblesse oblige of the rich has to do with altruism, sure, but also a fear of contagion, as Spiro Kostoff writes in his book The City Assembled.
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Her natural altruism enables the fighters amongst the ranks to go about their business with the best possible support—she could have stayed at the Citadel, or even gone to Earth, to establish her own practice.
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Rather, activists argue, white people taking on anti-racism work must be prepared to do so in their daily lives — and not out of a paternalistic sense of altruism, but in solidarity with all marginalized people.
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And I think there's great comedy in the juxtaposition of that kind of capitalism that obviously his company is involved in and at the same time this so-called altruism, which probably is marginal at best.
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In her one act of altruism, Becky manages to convince Amelia that her late husband, whom she still worships, was a hopeless flirt who was getting ready to leave her before his sudden death in battle.
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This, in turn, led him to the question of how altruism had evolved, and it was while studying new theories around this topic that he derived what is now called the Price equation, almost by accident.
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Forensic psychiatrist Phillip J. Resnick, pioneer in the study of filicide research, identified five major reasons: Altruism: The parent kills the child because he or she may perceive it to be in the child's best interest.
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Another hypothesis suggests we engage in altruism because it causes us emotional turmoil to see someone in need and not help them; in other words, we're trying to alleviate our own pain, evoked by empathetic impulses.
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While financially supporting education is always important, especially considering the high cost of higher ed, the raffle slightly clouds the altruism of Sincerely, Us. Supporters, after all, shouldn't need an incentive to support the Muslim community.
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We may even have to give up the word—depressingly many Americans still believe what J. Edgar Hoover believed or, even more depressingly, what Ayn Rand believed: that solidarity is a delusion and altruism a pathology.
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If you had adapted the mindset of effective altruism when you were deciding on a career, do you think you would have ended up studying philosophy and thus ended up doing all the good you've done?
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The original well-meaning, geeky architects of the web believed that there was an abundance of altruism in human nature—and they were more correct on this count, it turns out, than many esteemed social philosophers were.
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We give to charity for the status as well as the altruism, much as we get a college degree to learn, but also to earn a degree which signals to employers that we will be hard workers.
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The pair are co-founders of The Sentience Institute, a new think tank dedicated to the expansion of humanity's "moral circle," defined as the sentient beings that receive humanity's moral consideration, through the use of effective altruism.
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The updated introduction to Sunday's episode will note that, "Once again, Syrian refugees find themselves at the center of a heated debate – pitting our American tradition of altruism against our fear of terrorism," according to the release.
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If a guy wants to woo a girl, he waits patiently and earns her respect through deference and altruism — because he knows he is not entitled to her affection or anatomy simply by virtue of being male.
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" He readily acknowledges that empathy can inspire altruism — that once you "broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others," in Mr. Obama's words, "it becomes harder not to act, harder not to help.
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Effective altruism is an idea that, in its broadest form, ought to be noncontroversial bordering on tautological: We all have a moral duty to help each other, and we should help each other in more effective ways.
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In each of its forms, it has concentrated on consolidating its own power and on punishing and discrediting anything that might threaten it — that is, any inkling of the revolutionary spirit of agency, altruism, collectivity and creativity.
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It turns out even a baby will engage in this sort of altruism, according to a new study conducted by the University of Washington's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences and published last week in Scientific Reports.
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Other adherents of the effective altruism movement have backed BURN, a social enterprise that lets donors finance fuel-efficient stoves in Kenya, and The Clean Energy Innovation Program, a subset of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
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"The Haitian government calls for the respect and dignity of all people" and the preservation of its relationship with the United States, which values solidarity, altruism and the "respect of differences" for people all over the world.
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Caplan argues that it's only because of the worthlessness of an individual vote that so many voters look beyond their narrow self-interest: in the polling booth, the warm, fuzzy feeling of altruism can be had cheap.
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Ernest Gonzales, an assistant professor of social work at New York University, felt these students were prime candidates, since they have high levels of maturity and altruism and many carry a significant amount of student loan debt.
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The charity, which makes direct cash transfers to extremely poor people in east Africa, draws support from Silicon Valley donors and from the "effective altruism" movement, which rewards charities that subject themselves to independent, third-party reviews.
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It'd be different if I was dating someone, and she deeply wanted a dick-mold of mine for safekeeping—but if you're buying one of these for anything other than pure altruism, you should reconsider your priorities.
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Titled "The Simple Economics of Open Source," Lerner and Tirole identified multiple immediate and long term benefits gained by open source developers such that the role of altruism in open source development was reduced to an accidental byproduct.
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I'm less interested in whether a president kneels down than in whether he or she stands up for the important values that many religions teach — altruism, mercy, sacrifice — along with the religious pluralism that this country rightly cherishes.
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Much of the altruism faded during the first dot-com bubble, as people realised that an easy way to create value on top of this neutral fabric was to build centralised services which gather, trap and monetise information.
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Ari Kagan, a researcher at the Centre for Advanced Hindsight, a think-tank at Duke University, points out that many people find the idea of applying quantitative reasoning to altruism repugnant—like charging family members for a meal.
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But Ardeneaux was no stranger to altruism: Not long after he got tested and learned that his kidney was "a perfect match" for the ailing Triche, Ardeneaux saved several people from drowning when floodwaters washed through Covington, Louisiana.
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The U.S military humanitarian response was motivated not by altruism but by a U.S. government intent on avoiding millions of Haitian refugees flooding the southern shores of Florida because of unlivable conditions in and around Port Au Prince.
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"It is at times like these, that the football community needs to show responsibility, unity, solidarity and altruism," said Ceferin, while Baer-Hoffmann recognised that UEFA had taken a "significant hit" with its decision to postpone Euro 2020.
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Ulrich Mayr, a researcher and professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, is the co-author of a study of the neuroeconomics of altruism in 2009, which used brain imaging to track cognitive responses to giving money.
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What all these explanations have in common is the underlying notion that when we act altruistically, it's not really "pure" altruism — we're getting some long-term benefit out of it, even if we're not consciously aware of it.
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"Overall I am not too optimistic that people's sense of altruism can override their sense of urgency and immediacy in a major metro area where the demands for speed and expediency are high," he wrote in an email.
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One of the things that has become powerful in the effective altruism movement is the idea that we should be much more concerned about existential planetary-level risk because the weight of future human lives is so dramatic.
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Read more about Playment on TechCrunch Effective Altruism – Finds you the best charities Giving to charity without doing intense research is like burning money, because a study showed that 75 percent of social programs have zero or negative impact.
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Since mirror neurons' discovery, the extent to which they explain complicated traits like empathy and altruism has been called into question, and theories that faulty mirror systems were a driving force behind conditions like autism have not panned out.
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Under the guise of altruism and self-improvement, NXIVM leader Keith Raniere and his "inner circle" of celebrities and heiresses secretly ran an insidious sex cult, coercing and blackmailing women into becoming "sex slaves" for "masters" in the movement.
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Sapolsky, a neurologist and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, offers a masterly cross-disciplinary scientific study of human behavior: What in our glands, our genes, our childhoods explains our species' capacity for both altruism and brutality?
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In trying to answer that question, Price was inspired by an earlier equation by another pivotally important mid-century evolutionary biologist, W.D. Hamilton, who argued that altruism could come about when organisms act in support of their genetic relatives.
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Though doing work you find meaningful ultimately contributes to a more lasting feeling of contentment, jobs where altruism are baked in—like health care and aid work—are often high stress environments commonly linked with poor mental health outcomes.
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I don't fully ascribe to everything effective altruism believes, but I think their basic core tenets — that we've got to focus on priorities like where can we have the most impact, doing things now versus later — is an actual difference.
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It's not that his altruism was a symptom of mental illness, nor that his equation turned him into an altruist; it was just another part of his increasingly disordered life that he was trying to incorporate into a consistent worldview.
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You can link up with up to eight strangers in 'Sky' Chen and his team spent years learning how Sky could allow for these more complex player-to-player interactions without losing the altruism at the heart of Journey's vision.
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The book's family-get-together plot tosses Arthur Alter and his two adult children a chance — possibly their last — to escape their individual ruts of inherited grief, guilt and misguided attempts at altruism, finally connect with one another and move on.
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Besides, doesn't every decision ultimately originate at that same intersection of selfishness and altruism, exactly like that summer service trip I chose to take, looking at once to learn about the injustices of the world and to make out with boys?
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"Apple is the latest tech industry tax evader that has portrayed its entry into the housing business as an act of philanthropic altruism," Sanders said, pointing out efforts by both Facebook and Microsoft to stash money overseas and avoid US taxes.
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Take the millenarian prophets of AI omnicide (and its charitable corollary, "effective altruism"), which convinces the rich and silly that donating money toward the prevention of a hypothetical and unlikely future AI apocalypse is more valuable than helping actual living people.
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But it's not altruism; Amazon Prime has been widely adopted by middle-class and well-off Americans, so if the membership program is going to continue to grow in the U.S., the company has to figure out how to attract other demographics.
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It's inconceivable that his choice of family as a topic was not bound up with his relationship with his children, but the evolution of social behavior—and of altruism in particular —was also one of the biggest scientific questions of the age.
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If you asked people, in the abstract, whether they'd rather have a President who was a superbly charming professional politician or one who had come from nothing, built a successful business, and accomplished astonishing feats of altruism, they would probably choose the latter.
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In his book, "Old Age — A Beginner's Guide," he tries on altruism, suggesting that boomers' ultimate gift to the future would be to pay off the national debt, and do it before the last of that g-g-generation turns 65, in 2029.
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He and his colleagues measured the six components of wisdom in each participant: general knowledge of life; emotion management; empathy, compassion, altruism and a sense of fairness; insight; acceptance of divergent values; and decisiveness -- the ability to make quick, effective decisions when necessary.
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But others hypothesize that altruism may not serve an evolutionary purpose now that we live among non-kin in huge groups like nation-states; rather, it's a leftover trait from when we lived in small groups where everyone was genetically close to us.
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I don't know if it's as much altruism, or everyone is all of a sudden woke, as much as it is a combination of the fact that it's commercially viable, the stories are interesting, the music pops and people think, 'Why not now?
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"The circle of altruism has broadened from the family and tribe to the nation and race, and we are beginning to recognize that our obligations extend to all human beings," wrote philosopher Peter Singer in his classic 1981 book, The Expanding Circle.
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What ensues is a classic race against the clock — made more urgent by the fact that the survival of Blake's own brother is at stake — as the soldiers encounter perils as well as moments of improbable poetry, altruism and blunt human cruelty.
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Having a certain amount of "Altruism,"for instance, may open up the option to act as a mediator for either group, or having a follower from one of the factions may give you a bonus if you enter combat on that group's side.
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Moreover, giving voluntary compliance the appearance of additional trust or altruism is actually harmful to consumers because our current system does not permit effective or timely oversight and the type of remedies available after the fact do not address the actual harms suffered.
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Giving What We Can is now part of a broader suite of organizations under the Center for Effective Altruism, trying to persuade people they can use their time and money to make the world a substantially better place by giving to good causes.
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They were the youngest couple to sign the Giving Pledge in 2010, and are widely considered to be pioneers of "effective altruism," which boils down to using evidence and reason to identify where there are opportunities to do the largest amount of good.
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However, if you think of the well-founded economic anxiety and insecurity that many white families are feeling today … if our politics requires a sense of moral altruism from white voters to support the cause of racial justice, that's a pretty high bar.
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But Parfit, like Singer, participated in the effective altruism movement, which argues that people have an obligation to do what they can to improve the world through actions like adopting vegetarianism, donating at least 10 percent of your income to effective charities, and so forth.
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Daya had surprisingly little to do in Season 4, which makes sense when you remember that she gave birth, lost Bennett, dealt with the agonizing altruism of Pornstache's mother, and eventually lost her daughter to Child Protective Services — all in the course of Season 3.
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But Facebook isn't acting out of pure altruism here, as it stands to earn money from Libra in three big ways that aren't mentioned in Marcus' testimony: The real-world stakes are much higher here than in photo sharing, and warrant properly regulatory scrutiny.
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Even personality differences vary from time to time and place to place—for example men are more agreeable (the term used by psychologists for a cluster of traits such as modesty, altruism and tender-mindedness), and less ambitious and status-seeking, in more hierarchical countries.
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M.J. Crockett, a neuroscientist and director of the Crockett Lab at Yale University whose work centers on investigating altruism, morality and economic decision-making, has researched behavior in pandemics and the type of messaging that spurs people to make sacrifices for the common good.
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Others see India's rejection of the Emirati offer as a matter of pride, an attempt to dispel the old stereotype of the country as wracked by extreme poverty, incapable of taking care of its own citizens and beholden to the altruism of foreign governments.
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That group — inspired by effective altruism, a broad social movement that relies on evidence and analysis to determine where donations will do the most good — helps entrepreneurs navigate the world of giving, in part by examining which charities offer the greatest return on investment.
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In post-Revolution France, with its Enlightenment antipathy toward the church, the philosopher Auguste Comte created the Religion of Humanity, which had three pillars (altruism, order and progress), nine sacraments (including marriage, retirement and "separation," a sort of secular Last Rites) and a priesthood.
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The women of the royal House of Windsor are expected not only to provide an "heir and a spare" but to show unimpeachable morals and irreproachable behavior, to be decorative as well as decorous, and to do good works, putting their altruism on public display.
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Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov and shot in black and white—which makes the boreal woods of Siberia look like a bristling ocean—Letter Never Sent is a dark, brooding film that doubles as a subtle parody of Soviet Union ideals like altruism and resolve.
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By that point, the standard explanation peddled by the free software crowd—that free software development could be sustained on the basis of the ethical imperatives of freedom and altruism—no longer seemed adequate to account for the rapid emergence and adoption of a project like Linux.
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ANY student of religion will soon be struck by this paradox: a single set of beliefs and practices can either inspire people to great acts of altruism and courage, or else be harnessed by the strong and scurrilous as a way of justifying themselves and manipulating people.
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But their insistence on not only welcoming Warrior back into the fold, but completely whitewashing his past and elevating his likeness to a bland symbol of corporate altruism is shockingly tone-deaf, especially for a company that's at least outwardly trying to appear progressive, inclusive and diverse.
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As I have watched the new coronavirus quickly spread across the world, that phrase — "There's no room at the inn" — rooted in the Christmas nativity story and originally used to describe the lack of altruism toward strangers, has played over and over again in my mind.
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"If your concern is improving public health, either as a matter of altruism and ethics or pure concern for taxpayers' pocketbooks," she said, "your policy should generally be to keep vapor taxes lower than cigarette taxes to incentivize people to try to quit smoking using them."
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For instance, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, the patron saint of the effective altruism movement that preaches this data-driven philosophy, has for years been among the few megaphilanthropists to fund research on pandemics, including a grant just this month to forecast how the coronavirus might spread.
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Ms. Seppala, the science director at the Stanford Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, mulls the difference between the two starkly different atmospheres in her 2016 book "The Happiness Track": One floor was raucous and full of laughter, the other floor was solemn and quiet.
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Before you credit Amazon with some sort of altruism, just remember that the whole idea is to make it easier to order and reorder products from, well, Amazon (much like how putting an Amazon Echo in your house lets you make Amazon shopping lists just by talking to Alexa).
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I don't want to call it a mistake, exactly, because it was done with the best of intentions, but the way environmentalism got framed as "saving the planet," as if it was an act of altruism rather than an act of self-preservation, was a real error. Absolutely.
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As Matthieu Ricard notes in his rigorous book "Altruism," if an 18-month-old sees a man drop a clothespin she will move to pick it up and hand it back to him within five seconds, about the same amount of time it takes an adult to offer assistance.
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Traditionally associated only with blissful stimulants like eating chocolate cake, kissing, heroin, Facebook, (winning at) gambling, music, art, and altruism, it's now been established that pain can been added to this list, and that the link between pleasure and pain in our bodies is a complex and mysterious one.
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A popular approach to philanthropy these days is called "effective altruism" — the scientist's effort to protect the giver from the turbulent storms of emotion (think of Sally Struthers's deeply patronizing and objectifying appeal for money for hungry African children in the 0003s), and instead find shelter in rationality.
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Effective altruism also implies it's quite possible that even the best here-and-now causes — giving cash to the global poor, distributing anti-malarial bed nets in sub-Saharan Africa — are less cost-effective than trying to reduce the risk of the world as we know it ending.
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When Spider-Man goes a little bit evil, thanks to a weird alien that embeds itself in the fibers of his suit, he stops caring about altruism and starts caring about the cool stuff: snapping fingers, boogying, popping collars, hitting on co-workers, sitting in someone else's chair, side-swooped bangs.
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It even goes against real-life studies, like one conducted in 2011 by researchers at the University of Washington that found babies as young as 15 months have the ability to identify when their peers have unequal amounts of food or toys, and to exhibit traits of fairness or altruism.
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Sometimes we'll decide that Lui is right and that what looks like a turbulence of soul and spirit—as with certain psychological disorders—is best viewed as a physiological condition; sometimes Moi seems righter, and our response to other things—human altruism—is little dimmed by talk of flesh and inheritances.
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It would be jarring (for many reasons) to hear Trump appear on TV pleading with us to work from home and cancel parties as an act of patriotism, as an act of altruism, as a sacrifice the healthy need to make for the sake of the less healthy and uninsured.
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They were equipped with rations to be handed out at the Port Vincent Community Center, and they also wanted to repair the home of a 35-year-old man named Chris Krumholt who single-handedly changed Roussel's perspective on altruism when Roussel and his father met him on their last trip.
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And by declaring that "the world must be made safe for democracy" in 1917, Wilson articulated how the American people, from World War I to Iraq, would prefer to imagine their military incursions abroad: as high-minded acts of pure altruism, imbued with benevolence and devoid of mercenary self-interest.
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In this distinctly Hong Kong take on the sharing economy, one driven by altruism rather than profit, the support they offer ranges from shelter to car rides after rallies that often block roads and force railway stations to close acting, in the process, as free twists on Airbnb and Uber.
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Hornick writes, "The howler monkey sees Mary Magdalene's altruism and emboldens her to give to herself and express loudly while listening, instructed by his jungle cry; serious playing ensues…" A farcical scene unfolds in which basketballs bounce and ham sandwiches are served to Queen Isabella of Portugal and Madame Bonnier de la Mosson.
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So while a certain degree of nonconformity and unconventionality is needed to drive innovation and entrepreneurship, any leader will need to have a minimum level of integrity, empathy and altruism to be able to connect with and focus on the well-being of their teams, rather than on advancing their own personal agenda.
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True, Denmark's spending on its labor policies has at times risen to as high as 4.5 per cent of its G.D.P., more than the share America spends on defense, and studies show that diverse countries such as ours find it harder to muster social altruism than more racially and culturally homogenous ones do.
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Rand's simplistic reversals — selfishness is a virtue, altruism is a sin, capitalism is a deeply moral system that allows human freedom to flourish — have given her work a patina of transgression, making her beloved by those who consider themselves bold, anti-establishment truth tellers even while they cling to the prevailing hierarchical order.
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"In a world that had overcome extreme poverty and other major problems that face us now, promoting the arts would be a worthy goal," philosopher Peter Singer, a proponent of effective altruism, writes in his new book, The Most Good You Can Do. In the meantime, opera houses will have to wait.
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"If it were any other company except for MindGeek, I'd probably try to find more altruism in the act, but… they are such a negative force in the industry," said a performer who asked to remain anonymous, noting that MindGeek's promotion of piracy-driven sites has led to a dramatic decrease in performer incomes.
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The Germans had not really digested all this when Ms. Merkel took another major step: Her decision to let in one million refugees and migrants in 2015 was driven by generosity, altruism and a social responsibility — all very noble, but all done without much apparent concern for what the average German thought, or wanted.
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Emma Seppälä, the science director of Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, co-director of wellness at Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, and author of "The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success, " says her research shows that Buffett and Branson are onto something.
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Hamilton's rule, as it is now known, formalized this phenomenon as: rB > C Broken down, the formula suggests that genes for altruism will evolve if the cost (C) of them to the altruist are offset by the reproductive benefits (B) to those helped, multiplied by the probability (r) that the beneficiaries share the altruistic genes.
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Researchers at two Canadian universities uncovered that people who self-identify as altruistic, and those who unknowingly demonstrate their altruism through a willingness to donate to charity, also reported having more sexual partners in their lifetime, having more sex while in relationships, and having more casual sex than the rest of us selfish losers.
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The first one is altruism, and that tends to be the biggest one so there's this idea that they've gotten so much out of Yelp, and they want to give back to the community, or they're champions for their local community and they want everyone around them to have the same great experiences that they're having.
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Depressed, apparently by his role in confirming that altruism had selfish origins—though it is just as likely that he had stopped taking his thyroxine pills again—he had become obsessed with coincidences in his life, not least the sheer improbability that he, who hadn't known "a covariance from a coconut," should have discovered that equation.
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According to Valli, it is human nature when trying to make sense of delusions to construct explanations based on things already significant in our lives; for Price, those things were religion and altruism (and also marriage—he proposed to several women around this time, including suggesting to Julia that they get remarried; like the others, she declined).
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They've managed to portray to themselves and, to some degree to the world, certainly to the western world, the British Empire as some sort of benign exercise in altruism, which is far from being the truth … The fact is that it was neither benign nor altruistic; it was deeply rapacious, and deeply self-centered and self-benefiting.
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But if ordinary people rising to the challenge of extraordinary times is only understood as a triumph of altruism and not a tragedy of capitalism, if companies have to put profit ahead of diversified sourcing or maintaining inventory, if governments refuse to treat health care as a basic human right, what we're seeing right now will happen again.
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Browse all courses from Princeton University at Coursera hereBitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies, 18 hours, available at CourseraEffective Altruism, 15 hours, available at CourseraImagining Other Earths, 47 hours, available at CourseraBrowse all courses from Princeton University at edX hereMaking Government Work in Hard Places, 8 weeks, available at edXThe Art of Structural Engineering: Bridges, 8 weeks, available at edX
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Why was his approach to altruism so visceral and individually costly — letting people live in his home, abandoning his home to live among them and help them with alcoholism and legal troubles — when he could tell a convincing story that his career, and the charity that a good job enables, would do more good than that?
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