I was very interested to listen to Ezra Klein’s interview with Will MacAskill, a prominent thinker in the effective altruism movement. The focus of the discussion was on ‘long termism,’ referring to the long term future of humanity and what interventions today can ensure we are still around in the future, which is a subject usually separated from present day ‘social issue’ concerns. However, MacAskill argued that setting the conditions now to ensure a type of future we want to have requires that we really pay attention to these social arrangements. I very much appreciated that a leading thinker on the question of how to ensure the long term survival of humanity spent so much time discussing present moral concerns.
Reclaiming Moral Capital
Reclaiming Moral Capital
Reclaiming Moral Capital
I was very interested to listen to Ezra Klein’s interview with Will MacAskill, a prominent thinker in the effective altruism movement. The focus of the discussion was on ‘long termism,’ referring to the long term future of humanity and what interventions today can ensure we are still around in the future, which is a subject usually separated from present day ‘social issue’ concerns. However, MacAskill argued that setting the conditions now to ensure a type of future we want to have requires that we really pay attention to these social arrangements. I very much appreciated that a leading thinker on the question of how to ensure the long term survival of humanity spent so much time discussing present moral concerns.