Jamie Loftus

I'm sure you've gotten a hot dog there.

That's that seems likely.

So, yeah, you're probably right.

So McCaskill explained the concept of effective altruism to him, which is, again, this idea that like what matters is you should like think kind of coldly and robotically about how you do help to make sure that your charity money does the most that it can do.

But one of the big like arguments about it is that like, OK, well, what if you, you know, should you save a drowning child instead of saving like three kids from a burning building?

And it's like that's a nonsense choice.

Nobody's ever been presented with that choice at any point in the history of the human race.

That is not not a reason.

That is not a there's no point to that ethical argument.

You're not smart for debating it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It makes no fucking sense.

There's like bits of it that are reasonable, which is that like, well, you know, it makes sense to like, look at the best thing you can do financially, you know, in terms of donating money is, uh, you know, malaria prevention.

Cause it winds up being the most cost effective thing, but it's like, okay, does that mean we shouldn't put money into making the water in Flint, Michigan drinkable?

And a lot of these guys will say no, because that's not the best use of money.

And it's like, well, we can do many things with money, especially if we tax billionaires and put it towards rebuilding infrastructure.

Um,

A number of things can be done.

What?