@petersinger.infoThe fact that effective altruism is now being discussed so prominently is significant because it puts a fundamental moral question in front of a much wider audience: what do we owe to others?
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@petersinger.info“The Singer Solution to World Poverty” from Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Oxford University Press, 2016)
@petersinger.infoFrom my Big Think interview.
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@petersinger.infoOne unexpected consequence of the drowning-child thought experiment: it has kept artists supplied with material for decades.
I’m glad to see utilitarianism contributing to the artistic economy.
Artist: @smbccomics
@petersinger.infoThis 27-minute documentary is worth watching for anyone interested in global health, effective altruism, and the consequences of decisions about where we choose to direct our resources.
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@nordic-link.bsky.social"I meet Professor Singer on a sunny October day at the center’s old wooden house at No. 5 Ivy Lane... our discussion starts with his previous book, One World - The Ethics of Globalization." #PeterSinger #ethics #philosophy #princetonuniversity
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@petersinger.infoFrom One World: The Ethics of Globalization (Yale University Press, 2002)
@educatetheplanet.bsky.social#PeterSinger's #NMLCapital is a #vulturefund!
They hate that name but that is what they are! They extract wealth from poorer countries, they are the robber barons of our time!
Fun fact, Singer is also the one who funds Thomas and Alito's boondoggles!
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@petersinger.infoListen to the full conversation 🎧
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@petersinger.infoI’m sharing what happened because I suspect this problem will only become more difficult as search, social media and AI increasingly shape what people come to believe.
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@petersinger.info“Happiness, Money, and Giving It Away,” from Ethics in the Real World (Princeton University Press, 2016)
@petersinger.infoBillions of animals are confined, mutilated, and killed because their suffering is treated as less important than our taste.
In this interview with @bigthink.com, I argue that species membership is not what makes suffering matter.
@petersinger.infoIf children grow up interacting with AI companions, how might that shape the way they understand relationships?
In this episode of Lives Well Lived, we speak with Dana Suskind, pediatric surgeon and author of Human Raised.
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@petersinger.info9 in 10 children in the world’s poorest countries cannot read this sentence.
In my new Substack issue, I look at why the global education crisis is not quite the crisis many of us think it is, and why some solutions are remarkably effective.
@petersinger.info"Capitalism is still the most productive economic system that ever existed", The Guardian, 2026.
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@petersinger.infoIn this excerpt from my conversation with @richroll.bsky.social, we discuss the ethics of radically extending human life.
Watch the full conversation on The Rich Roll Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQb...
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@petersinger.infoFor the August/September issue of Forbes Australia, I was invited to answer The Last Word, a series of questions that range from the serious to the personal.
Thank you to Forbes Australia and Sarah O’Carroll for the feature.
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@petersinger.infoI was surprised and rather amused to discover that the BBC now considers me part of history.
Listen to the full Witness History episode on BBC 🎧
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