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This lack of direction turns us into ineffective altruists, whose generosity is at the whim of our moral biases, and whose kindness ends up giving less help to fewer people.

To the other half he gave a similar script, only instead of witnessing this carnage from the top of a nearby mountain, students were instructed to envision themselves at home, watching the destruction unfold on television.

Now, we might think that overcoming, for example, temporal discounting for the purposes of long-term financial planning is a matter of expanding our cognitive capacity to represent all the resources we will need after our working years.