This is an audio transcript of the The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes podcast episode: ‘What’s wrong with effective altruism? With Martin Sandbu’ Soumaya Keynes The effective altruism movement has ...

Evolutionary biologists and animal behaviorists have sought to identify the mechanisms that can explain what some have called the “problem of altruism.” Natural selection operates against ...

Much of his argument hinges on a trait that sets humans apart from other animals: the extraordinary complexity of their ...

Renowned and controversial Australian philosopher and bioethicist Peter Singer is no stranger to contentious ideas — ...

I often hear people say that humans are superior to other animals and see them behave as though this were somehow true. But ...

Vitalik Buterin converts $1.6 million in memecoins to ETH for charity. Economists suggest Buterin for the 2024 Nobel Prize in ...

Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin has converted another $1.6 million worth of memecoins into Ether, a portion of which he ...

Where does the urge to glorify cute animals come from? Scientists share how Moo Deng's popularity reveals deeper truths about ...

Vitalik Buterin has converted another $1.6 million worth of crypto memecoins into ETH, which he had promised would be donated ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has converted meme coins worth $1.6 million into Ether set to be donated to various ...

Musk’s complaint describes the OpenAI saga as “a textbook tale of altruism versus greed”. OpenAI currently has a more complicated structure that includes a for-profit subsidiary – which ...