## Eludications podcast on Egoism & altruism Egoism: does the act ultimately benefit yourself. Non fungible aspect of love, value. This particular example. Not enough to have CK+ with all traits but one slight improvement. What is self-interest anyway? Kant very strong distinction between acting prudentially (self interest) and acting morally (not self interest). Fundamental: reason and production. ### Criticism of effective altruism EA: Pointless relief of suffering. Point of relieving suffering is to enable something greater than that. If you don't really value what people can make of and do with their lives, then I don't think there's any moral value to being fixated on suffering. If you do, on the other hand, and you really want to see people who down on their luck prosper and you have a vision of what is possible for human beings and you're trying to achieve that for yourself and you want other people to be able to achieve it and that you understand it's good for each of us to have other people around them doing this, then I think that's really admirable. Charismatic leaders of charitable movements (he previously mentioned Peter Singer) often they're more in this like "Jesus mode".