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Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
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Grand Theft Automated: How to Save a Trillion Lives

Category: History
Duration: 00:38:48
Publish Date: 2025-07-04 04:01:00
Description:

A radical thought experiment transforms the lives of a new breed of philanthropists, as they follow the logic of altruism to extraordinary lengths. The most famous convert to the Effective Altruism movement, Sam Bankman-Fried, is either a humanitarian hero, a con artist at an astonishing scale, or most bafflingly, both.


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