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Quotes from The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically — Peter Singer

born 1946 Australia

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Living a minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of our spare resources to make the world a better place. Living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good we can.

The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (2015)

We do not have to make self- sacrifice a necessary element of altruism. We can regard people as altruists because of the kind of interests they have rather than because they are sacrificing their interests.

The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (2015)

The risk posed by the development of AI, therefore, is not so much whether it is friendly to us, but whether it is friendly to the idea of promoting wellbeing in general, for all sentient beings it encounters, itself included.

The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (2015)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Peter Singer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.