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The Brihadaryanka Upanishad posits the concept of dana, the practice of charity, as one of the three fundamental attributes to be cultivated for a virtuous life, along with damah, self-restraint, and daya, compassion for all....
As global events spin us into anxious helplessness, effective altruism offers a solution
The science-fiction fantasy of machine consciousness seems to be moving towards reality. But what would it mean for humans if artificial intelligence technology became conscious? And how would we know? Computer scientist Brian Christian ponders these complex questions.
Changing the habits of this small group could go a long way toward cutting the country's planet-warming emissions.
But can you understand when people in china and other emerging economies, too, might listen to your argument and think to themselves, "there's something going "on here which is akin to the arguments about climate "change and about our right to industrialise, to fully "industrialise, and to exploit natural resources in the way "that the west did for hundreds of years "to build their economic supremacy?" the chinese person might think, "i have a right to enjoy "consuming meat in a way that westerners have done "for decades, if not for centuries. "who is peter singer to tell me thatjust as i acqu...