After the epic downfall of its most prominent backer, Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic philosophy — Effective Altruism ...

When I say I'm raising my puppy to be a service dog and will give him away, people always ask me how I could do that? The ...

Altruism is real and developed because it confers an evolutionary advantage that is ultimately greater than the benefits of selfishness, an international team of mathematicians claims to have ...

Schadenfreude is a survival emotion that activates pleasure circuits and decreases pain. So does altruism, if you make it accessible.

“Effective altruism posits that making money by (almost) any means necessary is OK because you … are so brilliant that you absolutely should have all the power implied by billions of dollars ...

Now movement it is quietly trying to re-build ties to power, including at the heart of the White House — and the roles reflect the effective altruism’s growing interest in AI, which its ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- One of the most generous people I know, a doctor, denies that there is such a thing as altruism. The absence of altruism in the world does not bother him. On the ...

We don't think we'd ever heard of Oakland University, a second-tier institution in suburban Rochester, Mich., but Barbara Oakley, an associate professor in engineering, may help put the place on ...

Altruism is defined as the selfless concern for the well-being of others. A noble condition that allows individuals in the fire service to routinely put their lives on the line to protect a stranger.

Talk of movements makes me nervous. The latest swirling in tech world is “effective altruism.” Elon Musk had a brush with it. Its biggest proponent is crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX ...