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The Case for Rational Compassion

Your empathy is biased and costing lives. Discover how rational compassion and effective altruism can help you save more people by thinking with data.

Hyle Editorial·

The child drowning in front of you feels more important than the million children dying from preventable disease. That feeling is killing people. In 2021, approximately 5 million

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