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Will MacAskill: evaluation

9 Aug 2022 Dwarkesh Podcast Will MacAskill - Longtermism, Altruism, History, & Technology

“I think you can do both research and education far better than it currently exists. It's extremely hard to break in or creating something that's very prestigious because the leading universities are hundreds of years old.”

— Will MacAskill

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Will MacAskill
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evaluation
Recorded
9 Aug 2022
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…Will I be able to send my kids to MacAskill University? What's the status on that project? I'm pretty interested in the idea of creating a new university. There is a project that I've been in discussion about with another person who's fairly excited about making it happen. Will it go ahead? Time will tell. I think you can do both research and education far better than it currently exists. It's extremely hard to break in or creating something that's very prestigious because the leading universities are hundreds of years old. But maybe it's possible. I think it would could generate enormous amounts of value if we were able to pull it off. Excellent, alright. So the book is What We Owe The Future. I understand pre-orders help a lot, right? It was such an interesting read. How often does somebody write a book about the questions they consider to be the most important even if they're not the most important questions? Big picture thinking, but also looking at very specific questions and issues that come up. Super interesting read.…

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