Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours (April 2021)

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Effective altruism in a nutshell

'Effective Altruism: An Introduction' is a collection of ten top episodes of The 80,000 Hours Podcast specifically selected to help listeners quickly get up to speed on the school of thought known as effective altruism.Here the host of the show — Rob Wiblin — briefly explains wha ...  Afficher plus

 . 9min 35sec
One: Holden Karnofsky on times philanthropy transformed the world & Open Phil's plan to do the same

The Green Revolution averted mass famine during the 20th century. The contraceptive pill gave women unprecedented freedom in planning their own lives. Both are widely recognised as scientific breakthroughs that transformed the world. But few know that those breakthroughs only hap ...  Afficher plus

 . 2h 36min restantes
Two: Dr Toby Ord on why the long-term future matters more than anything else & what to do about it

Of all the people whose well-being we should care about, only a small fraction are alive today. The rest are members of future generations who are yet to exist. Whether they’ll be born into a world that is flourishing or disintegrating – and indeed, whether they will ever be born ...  Afficher plus

 . 2h 10min restantes
Three: Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways

The effective altruist research community tries to identify the highest impact things people can do to improve the world. Unsurprisingly, given the difficulty of such a massive and open-ended project, very different schools of thought have arisen about how to do the most good.Tod ...  Afficher plus

 . 2h 53min restantes
Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions

Will SpaceX land people on Mars in the next decade? Will North Korea give up their nuclear weapons? Will your friend turn up to dinner?Spencer Greenberg, founder of ClearerThinking.org has a process for working out such real life problems.In this conversation from 2018, Spencer w ...  Afficher plus

 . 2h 17min restantes