I think all these things i'm pointing to, they are just really bad, and the present as well. And i think if the human race as a whole, or society as a whole,. had its act together, we would be spending vastly more to prevent the net pendemic. But there's a question like, what's very most important? You know, if you're someone who's altruistically minded and really motivated, what should we be doing to do as much good as possible? The claim that society as a entire should be trying to do more? Well, there's still this question: If you want to have the biggest impact, it's not very clear how that translates into
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Will MacAskill is the philosopher thinking a million years into the future who is also having a bit of a moment in the present. As Associate Professor in Philosophy and Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford, he is co-founder of the effective altruism movement, which uses evidence and reason as the driver to help maximise how we can better resource the world. MacAskill's writing has found fans ranging from Elon Musk to Stephen Fry and his new book is What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View. Our host on the show is Max Roser, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development and founder and editor of Our World in Data.
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