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Deworm the World
“There are volunteering opportunities like high impact nonprofits, both within the effective altruism organizations or organizations we recommend, like Malaria Consortium, Deworm the World.”
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William MacAskill
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Malaria Consortium
“There are volunteering opportunities like high impact nonprofits, both within the effective altruism organizations or organizations we recommend, like Malaria Consortium, Deworm the World.”
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My response to that is, man, this just seems like super brittle, low probability because it seems so implausible to me that we could get hundreds of trillions of years in technological progress and improving well-being.
“My response to that is, man, this just seems like super brittle, low probability because it seems so implausible to me that we could get hundreds of trillions of years in technological progress and improving well-being.”
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- William MacAskill
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02 / evaluation
I’d be pretty wary of just paving over the jungle because, on the basis of our very nonrobust evaluation, we think that animal lives are, on average, negative.
“I’d be pretty wary of just paving over the jungle because, on the basis of our very nonrobust evaluation, we think that animal lives are, on average, negative.”
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- William MacAskill
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03 / evaluation
The repugnant conclusion is the idea that a world consisting of a very, very, very, very large number of beings, all with lives just barely above zero, just barely worth living — because it has more aggregate well-being, is better than 10 trillion lives of wonderful bliss.
“The repugnant conclusion is the idea that a world consisting of a very, very, very, very large number of beings, all with lives just barely above zero, just barely worth living — because it has more aggregate well-being, is better than 10 trillion lives of wonderful bliss.”
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- William MacAskill
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- Conversations with Tyler
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Now, perhaps in my book, I argue there’s enormous amounts of value at stake when we consider the long term, so we should reduce the risk of extinction and promote good values so that we make the most of that, make the most of all value in the long term.
“Now, perhaps in my book, I argue there’s enormous amounts of value at stake when we consider the long term, so we should reduce the risk of extinction and promote good values so that we make the most of that, make the most of all value in the long term.”
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- William MacAskill
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- Conversations with Tyler